Google Earth, Beware - EarthView Is Here

Google Earth is an amazing product, but I consider NASA's World Wind to be even better. Leaving them aside, there are quite a bunch of stripped-down applications that allow you to view our planet from space, and nothing else, apart from minor view adjustments, or the ability to display cities/borders, and so on. If you simply want to have a simple program to help you use a view of our planet as a screensaver or as a dynamic wallpaper, I got some news for you...



EarthView, a program coming from DeskSoft, reached version 3.8.1 not so long ago, and since it appeared after Christmas, nothing stops you from grabbing it now. After all, there's a free trial version available for download, too, and there's nothing easier than getting it from here.

The feature list of this program includes the ability to switch on and off atmospheric effects, urban areas and city lights, clouds, location and local time for over 3000 cities worldwide, but that's not all! You also get multiple monitor support, additional maps to download (only available in the commercial version), and many more.

Priced at $25.00, EarthView also allows you to purchase subscriptions for real-time cloud data, starting at $5 per month, down to $3/month for yearly payments.

According to the official page, there are no special system requirements, so any computer capable of running Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista and having 100MB of free disk space should be enough, but I can't help but wonder... what if I have an old 200MHz computer with 16MB of memory, and an ancient video card that runs Windows 95? Well, that's why you should always try before you buy, as long as this is possible...

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