Catfood Software Blog

5/24/2011 9:31:18 AM #

I love your programme. Just a few constructive tips. Could you add volcanic activity http://www.volcano.si.edu/reports/usgs/ for eg. or maybe even a solar monitor, like the yahooo widget solar widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/solar-viewer-mini. providing u with solar updates, as well as a lunar layer. a complete earth desktop basically. allows geeks like us to see everything at a glance. any chance of this happening. BTW, a great programme so far, and I see alot of room for improvement. what where the other changes betwen version 3 and 3.10?

Esmond Cassidy | Reply

5/24/2011 10:31:10 AM #

that would be AWESOME if u included the volcanoes and hurricanes?!

i was even thinking of screensaver of the solar system(for the sake of variety) showing our small blue dot in contrast to the rest of the big system and its revolutions around our sun. or a 3D globe revolving with realtime clouds, data, sunlight etc, with maybe a sun and moon on the sides of the screen as the globe rotates...or maybe even allow the person to switch this type of view for the background...i used some really old 3D globe animated background once but it was bad resolution and such a static uninformative background compared to your program.

i was kinda ok with the map rotation as it is now, didnt see the big deal, but could understand why an american would find it annoying.

the solar flare pic layer from nasa, and a lunar layer, i currently use it with your desktop with yahoo widget and yahoo weather app. it gives me this desktop supreme

i use rainmeter as well, with g3xter.deviantart.com/.../BlueVision-V0-2-Alpha-162478234
as my skin. it all fits very well together, when I drop the transparency of rainmeter so I can still see your desktop.

another tip. I was using robomagic earthquakeview, which gave a little sound alert whenever it picked up a new earthquake event. It was unobtrusive and always a nice reminder of the rest of the world. If that could be added to your program as well. Just a small tone. Or maybe allow the user to add a customizable tone. So whenever an earthquake/hurricane/volcano goes off in the world, with the update interval, at least there would be a little tone to remind you that somewhere out there, there is trouble going on

I think, if you could package all of this into one package, you would have something really unbelievable (considering I built it out of separate programs at the moment) and im loving it, and anyone who sees my desktop can only go "WTF?!" (just imagine the bluevision rainmeter skin + sun + weather + moon + catfood earth)


nhb-arcims.si.edu/ThisDynamicPlanet/index.html

another nice interactive earth (bad implementation of the legend tho) but still a good idea

I'll be sure to add any other tips as I think of them. I used to program as a hobby, so I understand the work that goes into this project. It is a work of art. I was wondering today when will you update it, luckily google gave me the answer.

Thanks for the prompt reply.

Wishing you all the best with your product. Hoping to see something to make your customers say "I must have that"

Esmond Cassidy | Reply

5/28/2011 3:34:26 PM #

Hi,

First impression: I love it. I'm a massive fan of the Webcam screensaver (and I mean *massive* - As in I'll often sit watching it instead of TV!), and Earth appears to be in the same vein.

My only criticism is that it took me a couple of minutes how to figure out how to change the settings - I was poking around in the Windows Display settings, expecting to find them there, not realising there was a 'Catfood Earth Settings' program installed in the Windows menu. However, this is probably more down to me being stupid (and a couple of glasses of wine down!)

Enough of that though, on to the good things; The first time I saw the desktop wallpaper with the timezones, I actually said "Wow" out loud. It looks stunning. The nighttime shot looks incredible too. I love the layers, especially the Place-names. My geography is terrible, so it's a great help to have these on the wallpaper (thinking about the amount of time per day I must spend looking at the screen, surely I'm going to learn where a few places are now!). The controls are easy to use and brilliantly customisable. And the whole thing just looks beautiful.

One suggestion - Could you make it possible to add more place names? Or maybe have an option for more detail (e.g to display every country border and name, as well as the existing option? I can imagine it could get crowded!)

Overall though, it's an amazing piece of software and I can see it being a permanent fixture here. Thank you!

James | Reply

6/3/2011 5:21:50 AM #

Hey,

I've just installed the beta and think it is really impressive. As an international purchaser I've used Crave World Clock for instant check of different time zones. Catfood Earth however, have a much nicer map that looks more natural than the a.m one. It's even so when the whole world stretches on my wide screen notebook. There is some idea that you might consider. It is a weather forecast/radar all over the world, not only in the US, and in wintertime snow reports for ski funs

TheZapper | Reply

6/11/2011 11:01:41 AM #

Catfood Earth 3.10

Catfood Earth 3.10

Catfood Software Blog | Reply

3/15/2012 7:01:31 PM #

hi.
from first moment looks a very interesting software. easy and SIMPLE to use.
i dind't enjoy the time zones.
why not include another natural things like hurricanes, fires?

alberto | Reply