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9
Nov 03
Sun

Nice Clock

Now this would make an awesome timepiece to hang on the wall. Too bad about the price.

While we’re on the topic, the same company has a program called World Watch which simulates the expensive wallclock on the computer. I also know of Geoclock, but that still is a 16-bit program. Does anyone know of any other clock programs that show a map of the world and what parts of the world are in darkness? If it can be used as a screensaver as well, all the better. (Drop URLs in the comments.)

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1.  Shish

I’m using WorldTime:

http://www.pawprint.net/wt/

I don’t think it can be used as a screensaver, but haven’t looked in enormous detail…

2.  Shish

It’s more functional than pretty, though.

Theory: people with popular e/n / blog / whatever sites occasionally use them as a sort of passive search engine (as opposed to Google which would then be called an “active” search engine) by posting requests like this… interesting because instead of getting computers to do a text search, it effectively sets up an ad-hoc network of brains to do a genuine semantic search.

3.  Ferni

xearth or xplanet i think does it

its a opensource app that will render a new image every x minutes as the sun goes around etc…

generally set it as your background, can be used in unix or windows

4.  Stu

Thanks, xplanet looks pretty — http://xplanet.sourceforge.net/windows

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