Xeric Design Releases EarthDesk 4.0

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Xeric Design announced the immediate availability of EarthDesk 4.0 on Monday. The new version was rebuilt from the ground up using Cocoa, converted to a preference pane, and has a revised user interface.

EarthDesk replaces the Mac OS X desktop with a dynamic, photo-realisitc image of the current Earth and is updated as a background process. Features include the depiction of the day/night regions, city illumination, and world-wide weather.

Xeric Design stated that "EarthDesk is the only application of its kind to support accurate moonlight, multiple monitors, eleven different map projections, as well as political and satellite views."

EarthDesk requires Mac OS X Tiger and is priced at US$19.95. The upgrade to version 4 ranges from US$9.95 to $12.95 depending on the previous verson owned.


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John Martellaro

John Martellaro

John Martellaro was born at an early age and began writing about computers soon after that. He is a former U.S. Air Force officer and has worked for NASA, White Sands Missile Range, Lockheed Martin Astronautics, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Apple. At Apple he worked as a Senior Marketing Manager, a Federal Account Executive and a High Performance Computing manager. His interests include skiing, chess, science fiction and astronomy. You can follow John on Twitter at twitter.com/jmartellaro.

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