OSXplanet is a front-end to the popular program xplanet made in Cocoa and Objective-C. It replaces your desktop with a picture of earth showing where it is night and day.

OSXplanet is a cocoa program that is based on the popular program, xplanet (by Hari Nair). It is able to generate live images of the earth as well as other planets in the solar system with additional informations such as the current clouds, storms, satellites, volcanos, earthquakes and times and locations of cities.

Make sure you read the README and do all the things on it before reporting bugs! OSXplanet will not work with the option "Change Picture" enabled! Make sure you do not use Stuffit version 8 to unstuff. Use 8.01 or something lower then 8.

Here are some key features of "OSXplanet":

· Presets allow multiple settings - OSXplanet has the ability to have presets allowing you to switch between different planets and other settings.
· Live Visual Data - OSXplanet displays live data about the clouds, volcanos, city times, storms, and earthquakes.
· Solar System Rendering - OSXplanet renders the Earth as well as the rest of the solar system allowing you to view any planet as it is seen from another planet.
· Multi-Monitor Support - OSXplanet allows you to set different images for different monitors.
· Elegant Interface - Designed from ground up with Cocoa, the OSXplanet interface is effcient, elegant that fits right in with Mac OS X.
· Multiple Projections - OSXplanet has many different projections including: Orthographic, Rectangular, and Hemisphere.
· City Display - OSXplanet can display cities around the world with their local times.
· Accurate Preview - Unlike previous versions, OSXplanet now displays an accurate preview of the image.
· Universal Binary - As of Version 1.0, OSXplanet is now universal binary which means it will run natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.
· 100% Mac-like - OSXplanet's redesigned interface saves settings on-the-go so you won't lose anything even if the computer crashes.
· Minimal CPU Usage - OSXplanet uses no CPU power when it is not updating the background, so it won't interfere with your daily activities.
· Unbeatable Price - All this and it is for FREE.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· [Fixed] Issues when trying to set image for more then one desktop.
· [Fixed] Check For Update option not being saved correctly.
· [Fixed] A bug that caused the uninstall function to not work properly.
· [Fixed] In the absence of the OSXplanet folder, OSXplanet now replaces it with a new one.
· [Fixed] Volcano Data now updates correctly.
· [Fixed] Custom Latitudes and Longitudes were not saved.
· [Fixed] Archiving Function was not working properly.