OSXplanet is a live desktop program based on Xplanet. It was written in Objective-C and Cocoa. You need Mac OS X 10.2.x or higher. At least a 500mhz G3 is recommended.
Xplanet was inspired by Xearth, which renders an image of the earth onto the user’s Desktop as seen from your favorite vantage point in space, correctly shaded for the current position of the Sun.
More info and download link here.
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hmmm …sounds interesting
that’s pretty cool…
quite nice
Ok ist is Nice but how to stop it …?
Good lord man, don’t stop the rotation of the earth! That’s crazy talk.
To stop, just quit the application.
Be sure that it is not in your System Preferences/Accounts/Startup Items.
Stop it from the menu bar.
I am not getting a menubar option… the only way I can kill it is by using ‘kill’ from terminal. It doesn’t show up when Apple-Tabbing in the finder, either. There is no menu bar at all to even use the settings mentioned on the web site. Could this be a bug with dual monitor setups (I am running that on my PBG4 17″)?
Let it roll!
After Apple buys Apple Records
and joins forces with the Beatles–
Apple will control the whole darn
thing
Watch out! I couldn’t Quit the app, I had to take it out of the Startup Items and reboot! There was a menubar item, but that just spun around and did nothing. There are no preferences, there is no item in the System Preferences either. Looks like it needs more testing.
Right, I am not the only amateur Mac user and i have removed it to the trash …. sorry Gabriel !
The program has an Earth icon on my menu bar next to my clock (top right on my screen). Clicking on it, I get a menu list including preferences, checking for data updates and quitting the ap. I don’t see any problem with it at all.
You want desktop eye candy?
Get Backlight2 from Macupdate or versiontracker
and you can run most any screensaver as your desktop, see here.
http://g5support.com/group/viewtopic.php?t=1628
For a awesome 3D check out this thread
http://g5support.com/group/viewtopic.php?t=1859
The Grail 2 is some wild thing!
HAHAHAHAHH
‘cool program how do you stop it’
yeah that’s the sign of a 4-star app
I’ve been running this for some time and have had very little drama with it. Stopping/starting is not a problem through the menubar item.
My only complaint is that it sometimes “drops out” – goes back to my standard background (Doctor Who 2005). Later it restarts…
Nice concept. Not ready to ship. I tried everything listed below, save the terminal, and can’t kill it. No, the menu icon doesn’t work. G4/533 running 10.3.5 – dual monitors.
The menu icon (and app) works fine for me on a 17″ G4/1.33 GHz PB running 10.3.5.