Very Cool- Real time live desktop of the earth or planets for apple computers

[IChing]

This is made by a brilliant 17 year old Californian but only for OSX
sorry Microsoft users.


OSXplanet is a cocoa program that is based on the popular program, xplanet (by Hari Nair). It is able to generate live images of the earth as well as other planets in the solar system with additional informations such as the current clouds, storms, satellites, volcanos, earthquakes and times and locations of cities. It is free and it updates every 1 min to whatever time you choose. I've had this on my desktop and it is very accurate. I no longer need to go to NOAA or US geological to check out what is happening on the planet just to reaffirm the details now. It also tracks the space station and the hubble telescope if you want it to.


Screenshot example



or you can view planets as viewed from earth, mars, venus etc.