What is it?EarthClock displays a realtime view of the earth, and overlays a clock. It's fully skinnable. Focus it on your city and watch the night slowly move in. Focus it on other cities to see what's up. It's like a gift to your desktop. It's also free. More info in about. EarthClock News
EarthClock mentioned in Dutch computer magazine 'Computer! totaal'. A lot of visitors from Holland seemingly came out of nowhere for the past couple of days. Some helpful readers pointed us to the source (thanks a lot for that). [22 march 2004] EarthClock 1.4 released. EarthClock now has a new layering system that allows for more pretty and useful effects. I decided to just release this version, even though it doesn't yet have all the features I meant for it to have. It was burning a hole in my harddisk. Hurry up to the download section to get a peek. [21 march 2004] Added more quick views. Mr. Mouse did some webmining and came back with some interesting views that you can use. They're all pretty nice, but Sol really stands out... [25 february 2004]
*** EarthClock Mega News Update for february 21, 2004 ***Whoa, it was a busy week. A lot of work got done, and EarthClock got a lot better. New version 1.3 is out! Many improvements and fixes. Shortcuts added to get views and skins off web. Online version check. More views added to installer (LA, NY and Tokyo). Skin installer for easy skin installation. Significantly improved error handling and reduced crashing. A lot of UI improvements and additions. Go directly to the download section.
Ability to add webcams. I've improved the flexibility of the HTTP fetching code to be able to view a webcam through EarthClock. I also added a short tutorial to the views page. Now you can watch your friends as they're imprisoned in your very own clock. Or check out the snow-conditions of your favorite resort. Older newsEarthClock is now a SourgeForge project. A lot of people are downloading EarthClock (1189 downloads so far!). Unfortunately, xentax.com has limited bandwidth (15 gig monthly), and the risk of xentax getting swamped is getting too high. To alleviate the download burden, I've registered this project on SourceForge, so I don't have to worry about that anymore. Executable downloads will now be handled by the SourceForge download servers. For programmers: I've also put the source on
the SourceForge
CVS server, so you can access the latest development snapshot.
Read more about CVS access here. New version 1.2 is out. Improvements:
EarthClock will now load at startup, some bugfixes, documentation updated.
New features: Graphics options to tweak for performance. Download
here. For an explanation about the new options, go to
the updated documentation. New views section. Ever wanted
to focus EarthClock on your own city? Well... now you can! Detailed
instructions
are
in the new views section. New version 1.1 is
out. John Walker
made some requests and suggestions, which I've incorporated
in EarthClock (specifics are in readme.txt). Among other
things, it's
now easier to create your own view. Download the result here.
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