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Sunday, April 12, 2009
Desktop Earth - The Earth on Your Desktop in Real Time
Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator for Windows. It runs whenever you're logged on and updates your wallpaper with an accurate representation of the Earth as it would be seen from space at that precise moment.
Day and night is accurately represented depending on the Sun's overhead position (which depends on both the time of day and the day of the year) and both the snow cover and the foliage changes with the seasons.
Images are created from high-resolution textures (2560x1280) so it's perfect for that QSXGA display.
An image is generated every month to accurately depict snow and foliage changes, and the night view is simply stunning.
If you just want to stick with one view of the earth, there is a huge stash of wallpapers in the install directory that can be used permanently without being online or having Desktop Earth installed.
Download Microsoft SharePoint Designer Free
SharePoint Designer is Microsoft's WYSIWYG HTML editor and general web design program that replaced Microsoft FrontPage.
When SharePoint Designer replaced Front Page, Microsoft changed the HTML rendering engine to one that is more standards compliant - making it easier to design web pages that are readable in most browsers.
You can get more information and the download link at the SharePoint Designer home page.
There's also a Q and A from Microsoft, a letter to customers, and links to quite a bit of training material - web casts, demos, including a six part beginners series for beginners, sample pages and templates for use with SharePoint Designer.
Although they share a similar name (SharePoint), this is not the SharePoint Server program.
On a similar note, if you decide to download SharePoint Designer, you may also want to download Service Pack 1 (SP1) for SharePoint Designer 2007 (link below)
Download requirements:
You'll need a Microsoft Passport, MSN Hotmail, MSN Messenger, or Windows Live ID account to download SharePoint Designer if you don't already have one. Registration is free if you decide to create an account.
Download Microsoft SharePoint Designer
SharePoint Designer Service Pack 1 (SP1)
When SharePoint Designer replaced Front Page, Microsoft changed the HTML rendering engine to one that is more standards compliant - making it easier to design web pages that are readable in most browsers.
You can get more information and the download link at the SharePoint Designer home page.
There's also a Q and A from Microsoft, a letter to customers, and links to quite a bit of training material - web casts, demos, including a six part beginners series for beginners, sample pages and templates for use with SharePoint Designer.
Although they share a similar name (SharePoint), this is not the SharePoint Server program.
On a similar note, if you decide to download SharePoint Designer, you may also want to download Service Pack 1 (SP1) for SharePoint Designer 2007 (link below)
Download requirements:
You'll need a Microsoft Passport, MSN Hotmail, MSN Messenger, or Windows Live ID account to download SharePoint Designer if you don't already have one. Registration is free if you decide to create an account.
Download Microsoft SharePoint Designer
SharePoint Designer Service Pack 1 (SP1)
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