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Planet Discordia is generated entirely for scratch by first tesselating a sphere into triangles, then perturbing it with fractal noise and smoothing.

Finally, the mesh is colored based on altitude relative to sea level.

C++ source code using OpenGL / GLUT is included.

RSS-Planet is a newsmapper, i.e. a custom marker file generator for xplanet and OSXplanet which uses RSS feeds from news websites to plot the current headlines on a world map.

By default, BBC News, Yahoo! News, CNN.com and the Washington Post are supported, but other feeds that point to articles with place names might work as well.

Note: The Python Imaging Library needs to be installed for favicon display to work. Circles are used by default if PIL is not found. To use the GUI, wxPython must be installed.

RSS-Planet implementation by Martin C. Doege after an idea by Nathan Eckenrode. Various tips/hints are available at the developers website.

Whats New in This Release:

· RSS-Planet can now alternatively output HTML with popup captions.
· If the command line option --web is used, a page called rssplanet.html is generated in the web_path directory.
· Rendering of the background image no longer requires xplanet or OSXplanet in this mode, only the day and night images specified in renderplanet.py.
· Normally, these will be earth.jpg and night.jpg, which are available from from the xplanet/OSxplanet distribtution.

LiveCams Planet is the special web browser, which gives you the opportunity to see Live WebCams from all beautiful places of the world without the large Internet browsers such as Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Opera etc. Main features: Easy-to-use, ability to see unlimited amount of WebCams at the same time, autosave each WebCam, customizable file mask for autosave, sound alert for update of each WebCam, and much more.

RSS-Planet is a custom marker file generator for xplanet which uses RSS feeds from news websites to plot the current headlines on a world map.

By default, Yahoo! News and CNN.com are supported, but other feeds that point to articles with easily-discoverable place names (such as the Washington Post) should work as well.

At the heart of Planet is a scalable map of the world showing night and day and hundreds of cities from a user customizable database. One of these cities is designated as the home city, and its time and date will always be shown at the bottom left of the screen. Tapping on other cities in the map window will select them to view the local time and date, sunrise and sunset times, and distance from the home city. Planet can also search through its city database in response to a Palm find, as a rapid way of locating cities or countries.

Whats new in this release:

· Fixed bug processing registration code

Requirements:

· Palm OS 3.5
· 246KB

Affirmation Planet is a free and simple Widget which displays a daily affirmation.

Affirmation Planet widget displays, right on your desktop a random affirmation.

The program Planet 2000 allows to calculate the position of the solar system bodies, from Mercury up to Saturn. It also calculates the Sun and the Moon position. The program gives the celestial coordinates (Right ascension and Declination) and the coordinates of the celestial body respect on the observer (topocentric coordinates Azimuth and Altitude).
Moreover it gives the time of the rise, set and transit. For the planet it also gives the distance from the Sun; for the Moon the distance from the Earth and its phases.
The program displays the heavenly vault; the celestial objects are displayed using two systems:

1) altazimuth system coordinates: the abscissa and the ordinate indicating the azimuth (angle from the Northern point of the horizon eastward) and the altitude of the object from the observers horizon, respectively;

2) spherical zenithal system: the center of the circle is the observers zenith; circumference is the observers horizon.

It is possible to display stars all in one go. The user can tap on star to obtain its name and its constellation.

The program uses grid to display results.

It is possible to use the Palm like a real Compass. Put yourself in front to any celestial object: the program calculates its position and then it will display a Compass. You will be able to find any correct geographical direction: North, East, South, West.

Also it is possible to obtain the dates of the Equinoxes and Solstices for any year from 1000 up to 3000 (see the role of the Precession of the equinoxes!) and the conjunctions and oppositions, respect to Sun, of the planets from Mercury to Saturn.

Total-annular solar eclipses processed by the program are comprised between 1900 and 2100 (exactly 287 eclipses from May 28th, 1900 to September 4th, 2100).
The program also allows to observe Partial Solar Eclipses that will happen from 2000 up to 2019.
The program generates animation of each total and partial solar eclipse: the user can change geographical coordinates and observe it (if possible) from any site.

Function Astro Clocks allows to display 3 clocks: Local Time, Universal Time (time on Greenwich meridian), Sidereal Time (Right Ascension that transits across observers celestial meridian).
It is possible to choose starting date and starting time. The three times will be updated every second.


It displays Equation of Time for any date. When the Sun crosses the meridian of the Time Zone it is solar noon there. But for our clock noon can fall before or after the Sun transit.

The Earths Surface function allows to calculate the distance between two points on the Earths surface. Moreover the program allows to know a lot of other geographical information about the parallel of any latitude.

The program gives information about all Lunar eclipses from 1999 up to 2030. For each eclipse we have: type of eclipse, date and instants, magnitude, zenith coordinates, graphical representation.

Astronomical Almanac option gives the dates of the most important astronomical phenomena: more than 80 astronomical events for every year from 2000 up to 2030.

From version 2.3 the program uses colours.


The program "Solar and Lunar Eclipses", included in Planet 2000, is also sold separately: who buys "Planet 2000" does not have to purchase "Eclipses".

Registration: Full version needs HotSyncName.

It works in Palm OS 5 environment

Provides a brief amount of information for all the planets.There is also a Planet Weight (known previously as Space Weight) section which will tell you your weight on any Planet. And Lots More!

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, and the second-smallest planet in the solar system!

It is about the same size as our Moon. Mercury travels around the Sun faster than any other planet. That is how it got its name. It was named after Mercury, the swift messenger of the gods in ancient Greek mythology. It has a very thin atmosphere consisting of atoms blasted off its surface by the solar wind. Mercurys cratered surface appears very similar to the Moon. Its temperature variations are the most extreme in the solar system ranging from +427°C to -173°C.

The planet can only be seen from Earth just before sunrise or just after sunset. But of course you can always download Planet Mercury 3D screensaver that will get you acquainted with this mysterious planet!

Limitations:
nag screen

Whats New in This Release:

· A number of minor bugs have been fixed

Photo Screensavers bring you a new dimension in presenting pictures that prompt the imagination and recall memories.

While your computer is idle, five full size pictures taken from outer space will give you the opportunity to see how beautiful our planet is.

Dont miss the chance to "fly" in outer space with Planet Screensaver.

Planet.Sentry will protect any type of file or data, email, attachments, local and remote files, whatever. However you look at it, Planet.Sentry is your best choice for data security. One of the greatest problems with marketing encryption software is that you need to buy two copies so you can have someone to communicate with. Not Planet.Sentry. When you register Planet.Sentry you will get TWO registration codes with each download. No you do not have to pay twice. One purchase gets you two full copies, both of which are upgradeable to the 128 bit version. Note: the 128 bitversion is not available for sale in all countries.

Palm Planet Lander puts you in control of an Apollo-style lunar descent module. Navigate and land on various sites to recover fuel and earn points.

Sit back and enjoy staring into the vastness of space and imagine yourself racing towards an M Class planet in some distant galaxy. Includes sci-fi sound scheme with icons and animated mouse pointers.

When you want to know what is happening, what is goingon, do you just take a chance or do you take charge? When you want to view your files, do you overkill the target or do you fine tune your direction so you can get what you want when you want it ? We offer you our solution to all of this viewer business Planet.Focus.With support for more than 35 industry standard files, including vCards, MPEG Audio and Rich Text files, Planet.Focus helps keep things in check. Planet.Focus can replace hundreds of megabytes of bloatware application if you only need to see the contents of a file rather than edit it. Planet.Focus has a tiny 3 megabyte footprint! Imagine the time and space you could save by using the right program.

Your goal is landing on the desired planet and pass ahead nasty aliens. Dont forget about mining energy minerals on asteroids. Dont forget to gain extra screens on harder levels. Enjoy.

Requirements:

· PalmOne: TungsenIT.
· Palm OS v5.0.
· 800KB.