Catfood Software News - 2006-01-15

Catfood Software is pleased to announce the release of Catfood Desktate 2.20.

Desktate has been updated to include NASA Blue Marble 2 monthly imagery that may optionally be combined on a daily basis to show the extent of snow and ice cover throughout the year. Desktate also includes support for time zones with a layer that displays local time throughout the world. Finally, 2.20 has an image export feature that allows you to save a single Desktate map or render a sequence of frames for creating an animation.

Catfood Desktate is an eye catching earth simulator that combines satellite imagery, near real time cloud data and optional layers including political borders and place names. The continuously updated result can be set as your desktop wallpaper or used as a screensaver.

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.
  
  
• 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 data, time zones, political borders 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.