Prettiest wallpaper yet
Found a website that has near real-time photos of the earth... and Steve found a way that I can get set up so my wallpaper loads the latest one each hour. Very snazzy.
http://taint.org/xplanet/
These things are gorgeous
For the technically inclined, you can have these beauties updating hourly as your desktop wallpaper if you are willing to wrangle with some setup.
"...a selection of desktop-sized high-quality PNG images, combining
near-real-time cloud data, and some very nicely rendered
maps using satellite data, to create a nifty, nearly-live world map
desktop background wallpaper."
These things are gorgeousFor the technically inclined, you can have these beauties updating hourly as your desktop wallpaper if you are willing to wrangle with some setup.
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2006-08-04 16:23
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2006-08-04 18:39
Your comment thingy didn't escape my less-than characters. :-)
#!/bin/sh
img=$HOME/Pictures/xplanet.png
curl -L http://taint.org/xplanet/day_clouds_2048x1024.png -o $img
/usr/bin/osascript - <<END tell application "Finder" set myFile to POSIX file "$img" as string set desktop picture to file myFile end tell END
on a mac...
If you're on a Mac and Unix-inclined, the following shell script would make a nice cron job:
#!/bin/sh
img=$HOME/Pictures/xplanet.png
curl -L http://taint.org/xplanet/day_clouds_2048x1024.png -o $img
/usr/bin/osascript - <