Xplanet

GUI to configurate and start XPlanet easily. Adds a downloader to XPlanet to load clouds, images and marker files from the internet. Generates cmd (windows) and configuration files for XPlanet and the downloader. Hides in the System Tray. Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

XPlanet is a wallpaper inspired by the well-known XEarth utility from Unix. XPlanet shows an image of the earth (or any other planet) on your desktop, letting you see it from any position, with the actual map of the hour, satellite positions etc. There are an almost infinite number of options and... Platforms: Windows

Global Village is a Gnome application designed to place a front-end, or graphical user interface onto the CLI interface of Xplanet. Originally intended to create and update the desktop wallpaper in a gnome environment, showing a traditional rectangular projection of the planet Earth. Global... Platforms: *nix

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... Platforms: *nix

Realtime Sunlight Wallpaper is a simple but useful application which can retrieve an image from the Internet and set it as a wallpaper every 30 minutes. Watch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight and... Platforms: *nix

Geotrace is a geographical traceroute utility. Geotrace provide graphical view on the map. It has many geographical maps. In order to be able to use a new map with geotrace, you only need to know one thing: the longitude/latitude of the top left and bottom right corners. Most maps you will find... Platforms: *nix