Comments on: The World Is Your…Desktop http://gigaom.com/apple/the-world-is-your-desktop/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Henry http://gigaom.com/apple/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325647 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:48:30 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/11/25/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325647 Time Palette has a DST checkbox in the Atlas window… probably need to uncheck that.

]]> By: Charles http://gigaom.com/apple/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325640 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:49:57 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/11/25/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325640 HourWorld was recently updated when the changes to Daylight Savings Time were implemented. Other than that, what updates would you need? It works fine in Leopard.

BTW, I tried Time Palette but I had trouble getting it to work from my system clock, it was always an hour off from my computer’s clock. Weird.

]]> By: Henry http://gigaom.com/apple/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325641 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:41:32 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/11/25/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325641 I see no problem with $23.95 for this… you can’t go out to dinner for that amount of money and it’s a well built application that looks beautiful. Even going to the movies costs this much and lasts only 2 hours… this lasts a long time.

OSXPlanet does not work with Leopard and the developer (who is a student) seems more focused on school so no real support there. Likewise I don’t think HourWorld has been updated in ages. The guys that do EarthDesk also do Time Palette which is a lot like HourWorld.

]]> By: Charles http://gigaom.com/apple/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325642 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:55:03 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/11/25/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325642 I tried Earthdesk once, and I just don’t see the point. For that matter, I don’t see the point in desktop images generally. My desktop is always covered, I always have windows open and groups of folders and files laid out, so all I ever see is the edges of the image. I’d have to close all my windows and keep everything immaculately tidy to see the picture.

If you want something like Earthdesk, but in a far more useful format, I recommend HourWorld. It started out as a Desk Accessory, but now it’s a quite well-developed application that does just about anything time-related, it shows time zones and world clocks, and can calculate sunrise/sunsets, etc etc. I was surprised once when a photographer friend called me and asked if I knew a way to calculate when the walls of a building would be in shadow, I checked HourWorld and it had a “sundial” feature that gave that exact information. I was impressed. HourWorld also has a desktop version, but I prefer it in a floating application window.

]]> By: The White Shadow http://gigaom.com/apple/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325643 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:44:58 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/11/25/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325643 Or get a free (well, donationware) alternative called OSX Planet.

http://www.osxplanet.com/index.html

]]> By: Arvin http://gigaom.com/apple/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325644 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:47:35 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/11/25/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325644 Maybe the price would justify itself if it came with an iPhone ready version as well?

]]> By: Amnell http://gigaom.com/apple/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325645 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:05:41 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/11/25/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325645 That price is just right! NOT….
Cool app, but the price just forces it to go to the trash bin.

Great blog btw

]]> By: Carl http://gigaom.com/apple/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325646 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:00:33 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/2007/11/25/the-world-is-your-desktop/#comment-325646 Cool but certainly not worth that much money

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