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Featured: Catfood Desktate

Catfood Desktate is an eye catching earth simulator that combines satellite imagery, near real time cloud data and optional layers including political borders, time zones and place names. The continuously updated result can be set as your desktop wallpaper or used as a screensaver. Download the free seven day trial to see the product in action, or view screenshots online.

Catfood Desktate

Desktate features include:

  • The terminator between day and night is continuously calculated; you can see sunrise and sunset around the world and observe the changing seasons throughout the year. Desktate includes several satellite images and you can download more to find the perfect combination. You can also control the transparency of the night image and the duration of sunset/sunrise.

  • Blue Marble 2 monthly imagery may be combined to show the extent of snow and ice throughout the year. You can also export a single image or a sequence of frames from Desktate (see the Seasons video for an animation created using this feature).

  • You can choose to rotate the image (so for example local noon or local midnight is always at the center of the screen) or fix the map on one location and watch the terminator progress across your screen during the day.

  • Optional layers include composite weather satellite cloud images, political borders, time zones and place names. You can create and merge in your own data, or create a custom list of place names.

Learn more about Catfood Desktate. A full license costs just $19.95 from the Catfood Store.

 

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Catfood Software Blog

2009-10-25: Improved Earthquake Display in Catfood Earth Beta

I've just improved the way that Catfood Earth displays earthquakes: The biggest change is that you can choose to display a description for each quake. The description includes the magnitude,... read more

 

2009-09-22: Autumnal Equinox 2009 in Catfood Desktate

The Autumnal Equinox for 2009 was at 21:18 GMT today. The image below captures the equinox in Catfood Desktate : It's the start of Autumn/Fall in the northern hemisphere, Spring for the... read more

 

2009-09-13: US Weather Radar in Catfood Earth Beta

The Catfood Earth Beta now supports displaying weather radar images from over 160 sites around the Unites States. Just select the site closest to you and choose from Reflectivity, 1 Hour... read more

 

2009-09-07: Catfood Tracker 1.30

Tracker generates Google Earth KML files from GPS equipped Windows Mobile devices. You can also use the KML files in Google Maps. 1.30 adds a few commonly requested options to Tracker. Sample... read more