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National Geographic Picture of the Day 2.72
National Geographic Picture of the Day is a free yahoo widget that displays a daily picture on your desktop more>>
Double clicking any image opens the webpage to view the full size version. The frame and text can be coloured to your wishes, or hidden individually or together. Manual refreshes, refresh timers, and automatic Widget update checking are all configurable via the Widget preferences.
If you like this one, take a look at my other Widgets for more Pictures of the Day based on the same design.
National Geographic Picture of the Day widget 2.2
National Geographic Picture of the Day widget 2.2 is a very impressive and beautiful collection for use with the Yahoo Widget Engine. more>>
National Geographic Picture of the Day widget 2.2 is a very impressive and beautiful collection for use with the Yahoo Widget Engine.
This widget displays the National Geographic Picture of the Day on your desktop. A description of the image is available in a slide-out text area that can be positioned on any side of the Widget. Allows you to browse back and forth to previous pictures of the day. Double clicking any image opens the Web page to view the full size version. The frame and text can be coloured to your wishes or hidden individually or together. Manual refreshes, refresh timers, and automatic Widget update checking are all configurable via the Widget preferences.
Google Earth 5.0.11337.1968
Put a planets worth of geographic information right on your desktop. more>>
Google Earth 5.0.11337.1968 is a useful program designed to view exotic locales like Maui and Paris, as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, and schools.
Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps, and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. With Google Earth you can fly from space to your neighborhood--just type in an address and zoom right in, search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions, tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings, save and share your searches and favorites and even add your own annotations.
Major Features:
- Historical imagery from around the globe
- Ocean floor and surface data from marine experts
- Simplified touring with audio and voice recording
- See global changes with decades of historic imagery: If you've ever wondered how your neighborhood has changed throughout time, Google Earth now gives you access to the past. With a simple click, check out suburban sprawl, melting ice caps, coastal erosion, and more.
- Dive beneath the surface of the ocean: In the new ocean layer, you can plunge all the way to the floor of the sea, view exclusive content from partners like BBC and National Geographic, and explore 3D shipwrecks like the Titanic.
- Track and share your paths with others: Take placemarks a step further and record a free-form tour in Google Earth. Simply turn on the touring feature, press record, and see the world. You can even add a soundtrack or narration to personalize the journey.
Requirements:
- Operating System Requirements
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- System Requirements for Google Earth
- Google Earth Compatibility with Mac OS X Leopard
- Graphics Card Requirements
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- Installing DirectX
- Updating your Mac graphics card driver
- Accessing graphics card information on your Mac
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combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the worlds geographic information at your fingertips. Google Earth puts a planets worth of imagery and other geographic
Google - put the worlds geographic information at your fingertips. Google Earth. Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satelliteGeo::Coordinate 0.1
Convert geographic coordinates from DD MM SS to decimal degree and back using the Geo::Coordinate Opera widget more>>
System requirements:
- Opera 9 or later
EarthSculptor 1.05
A tool for painting heightmaps, useful in art projects, geographic visualization and game development. more>> A tool for painting heightmaps, useful in art projects, geographic visualization and game development.
The EarthScultor application was designed to be a tool for painting heightmaps, useful in art projects, geographic visualization and game development.
Earthsculptor allows you to start from scratch, or work from an existing heightmap and saves heightmaps as a 16-bit png image.
Earthsculptor works well with other paint programs to edit your heightmaps and textures, and can be used simply as a visualization tool.
EarthSculptor is a realtime terrain editor and paint program featuring an easy to use interface designed exclusively for rapid development of 3D landscapes for visualization, multimedia and game development
Main features:
- Fast 3D hardware accelerated terrain rendering
- Automatic lighting and shadow map rendering
- High resolution Light, Color and Detail texture maps
- Up to 8 Detail Textures
- Map sizes up to 4097x4097
- Terrain Texture sizes up to 4096x4096
- Real time reflecting water
- 8 terrain tools: raise, lower, level, grab, smooth, erode, push and ramp
- Plug In System
- Multiple undo/redo editing
- Outputs heightmaps as 16-bit PNG textures, no proprietary formats
- Advanced .OBJ exporter outputs optimized meshes
- Edit textures and heightmaps externally
- Developed for Windows and OpenGL hardware
NOTE:
- Free for Non-Comercial use
- For Comercial use - 30 days trial
Enhancements:
- Fixed entering decimals in edit fields
- Pick color off of terrain (using cntrl key) while using paint tool
- Tool parameters radius,strength and softness are saved after each session of EarthSculptor
- Ramp tool now has a strength parameter which determines how much to blend the ramp into the terrain
- Color/Detail Strength set to max 1.0 is absolute and will not cause blending
- Color/Detail Strength minimum of 0.1 will only paint with 1 pixel if its below the resolution of the texture map
- Smooth textures option in utility menu. Turn it off to reveal the actual terrain detail/light/color map pixels
- EarthSculptor.ini file has terraformStrengthMultiplier to globally change strength on most terraform tools and toolMaxRadius for setting the maximum tool radius
NAC Google 1
NAC Google is designed to be a helpful and creative Google Maps/Local Search/Driving Directions that allows users to specify the location anywhere in the world for all these services with the efficient and language independent. more>>
NAC Google 1 is designed to be a helpful and creative Google Maps/Local Search/Driving Directions that allows users to specify the location anywhere in the world for all these services with the efficient and language independent.
Requirements:
- Windows 2000/XP/Vista
- Google Desktop 4 or higher
GenesisII 4.0
Generate photo-realistic images of landscapes. more>>
GenesisII 4.0 offers users a tool that generates photo-realistic and schematic images of landscapes from geographic data. In addition to rendering capabilities, GenesisII incorporates a wide range of tools to support landscape modeling and related tasks, such as VRML modeling and terrain editing.
A range of factors controls how the landscape will look in the rendered image. The user can control atmosphere, clouds, and water in addition to camera and target placement. It also features an extensible plug-in architecture.
Major Features:
- Describes a landscape surface using a landscape grid of heights that can either be generated by GenesisII or imported from another source such as a DEM (digital elevation model) file.
- Understands how landscapes are formed and will attempt to generate the details of the fractal surface in a realistic manner.
- Has an understanding of ecosystems and will place vegetation with regard to surface features.
MapSphere 0.95
view & organize geographical data more>> MapSphere is a manageable way to view and organize geographical data of different kind. This might be raster maps and satellite imagery from various sources, your own information received from GPS, tracks of your friends, whatever you want.<<less
ImageVisu 5.0.0
Display geographic, GPS, and other files from the Web. more>>
ImageVisu 5.0.0 brings you a useful and effective image and graphics viewer. It can display files from the Web (HTTP and ECWP). It has a slideshow mode. In addition to well-known image formats, it displays geographic and GPS files (SHP, MIF, ECW, MrSid, NMEA, GPX, KML).
In addition to well-known image formats, it displays geographic and GPS filesSearch Notes 1.2
Search Notes widget allows you to search for specific stuff and in teh same time to take important notes. more>>
The search function can be configured to search the following popular websites: Amazon, BBC News, BitTorrent, CNET, CNN, Digg, eBay, Engadget, ESPN, Flickr, Google, Google Images, Lycos, MSN, MTV, National Geographic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Photobucket, USA Today, Wikipedia, and Yahoo!.
GPSMonitor 1.0.0.1
GPSMonitor graphs the azimuth, elevation and signal strength of all visible satellites, and displays human-readable forms with information from several NMEA strings received from a USB GPS. The GPS us more>>
GPSMonitor graphs the azimuth, elevation and signal strength of all visible satellites, and displays human-readable data parsed from several types of NMEA string received from a USB GPS. The GPS uses an emulated serial port for communication running at 4800 baud. Graphed data is saved so it is visible when the program is run again later. It is able to show a Google map of your current location.
Parsed messages are:
GSV: Satellites in view.
RMC: Recommended minimum specific GPS/Transit data.
GGA: System fix data.
GLL: Geographic position, latitude and longitude.
GSA: Dilutioon of Precision (DOP) and active satellites.
More message types may be added based on user requests since many GPS models have different feature and message sets.
Requirements: .NET runtime v. 3.5
Whats new in this version: Added scrolling graphs.
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Fastest newsletter software with Geolocation. Track opened e-mails, forwarded e-mails, clicked links and the geographical location of recipients. Send personalized e-mails. Send geotargeted e-mails to countries, regions or cities. Bypass ISP limits. more>> <<less
License:Freeware
License:Freeware
License:Freeware
License:Freeware
Copiks PhotoMapper 0.7
Copiks PhotoMapper is a free and simple GUI-based utility to tag digital photographs with geographic information more>>
Copiks PhotoMapper 0.7 is a flexible and free utility to tag digital photographs with geographic information using EXIF tags.
Major Features:
- PhotoMapper will assist in organizing your memories by adding a geographic position to the EXIF-data that is already present in your files, so called geotagging.
- No demo limitations
- Information can be entered, both manually, and utilizing GPS data.
- Positions along with photo thumbnails can be exported to Google Earth.
- Image formats: JPEG
Enhancements:
- Improved time handling with functionality for time zone adjustment and user specified camera time drift.
- Presentation of imported GPS-polygons in table format for improved awareness of the connection between camera time and GPS time.
- Possibility to export GPS polygon to Google Earth in user specified color.
- Faster matching between GPS-data and exposure time
- GUI layout using splitters for easier user interaction with the layout.
- Bug fixed so that the progress dialog will not appear on image import if no files were selected
Copiks PhotoMapper is a utility to tag digital photographs with geographic information using EXIF tags, so called geotagging. Information can be entered, both manually, and utilizing GPS dataCopiks - and simple GUI-based utility to tag digital photographs with geographic information. Copiks PhotoMapper. Copiks PhotoMapper is a free and simple GUI-based utilityGeoDataSource World Cities Database (Free Edition) April.2009
GeoDataSource Free Cities Edition provides geographical database of world features, cities with place names and region names. more>> <<less
Joe Galaxy Mayacal Edition 2006
Get free unlimited Internet access. more>>
Joe Galaxy Mayacal Edition 2006 is created as an essential and handy program which offers a cohesive virtual network for all the affiliated Web sites to Dr. Carl Johan Calleman and for all living souls drawn to learn about the Mayan calendar. The Mayacal Edition of Joe Galaxy will include all the great affiliated information, Web sites, new discussion forums, and living souls in a cohesive virtual environment. It is a way to share consciousness that integrates all existing ways yet provides the framework to strengthen awareness and friendships with real-time secure-private communications and virtual presence across geographic space.
Simply, Mayacal is a "virtual community" or Galaxy about everything Mayan with an emphasis on the true Mayan Calendar as conveyed by Dr. Calleman. The software is the framework that implements the concept and provides the means for cohesion.
Enhancements: May include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
