Releases by Xeric Design, Ltd.:

Mar 20, 2012 - Xeric Design is celebrating the 10th anniversary of EarthDesk, with a special savings off the Single User and Five User licenses. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as dynamic, real-time global cloud coverage on your Macintosh or Windows desktop. It operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated while you work. This offer is valid only from the Xeric Design website from March 20-29, 2012.

Oct 13, 2011 - Xeric Design today updated EarthDesk, its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map, to support high-resolution cloud data via a data feed service. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as global cloud coverage. The software operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated while you work. EarthDesk's dynamic desktop is continuously displayed as your desktop background.

Aug 11, 2011 - Xeric Design today updated EarthDesk, its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map, to support spaces in Lion. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage. The software operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated while you work. EarthDesk's dynamic desktop is continuously displayed as your desktop background and optionally as a screen saver.

Jul 19, 2011 - Xeric Design today updated EarthDesk, its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map, to support the forthcoming Lion OS. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage. The software operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated while you work. EarthDesk's dynamic desktop is continuously displayed as your desktop background and optionally as a screen saver.

Jul 07, 2011 - Xeric Design today released Time Palette 6.0, its award-winning, global time app. Time Palette has been the standard Mac world time application since 1992. Version 6.0 is a complete rewrite and is fully compatible with Lion, Snow Leopard and Leopard. Time Palette displays the current local time for any location and calculates a wealth of global geographical, astronomical and weather data, including real-time weather conditions from NOAA, complete Daylight Saving Time rules, and sidereal time.

Mar 23, 2011 - Xeric Design today updated EarthDesk, its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map, to a fully 64-bit application. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage. The software operates silently in the background, keeping your desktop updated while you work.EarthDesk's dynamic desktop is continuously displayed as your desktop background and optionally as a screen saver.

Mar 01, 2011 - Xeric Design is celebrating the 9th birthday of its flagship product, EarthDesk, with a special offer for a single-user license at a 60% discount. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage, allowing you to track hurricanes and other weather systems. This offer is available on our website, as well as from Apple's Mac App Store. This offer is valid for 9 days only: March 1-9, 2011.

Jan 11, 2011 - Xeric Design today updated EarthDesk, its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map, and has also made the application available in the new Mac AppStore. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage, allowing you to track hurricanes and other weather systems on your Macintosh desktop.

Sep 29, 2010 - Xeric Design today announces EarthDesk 5.5, an update to its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage, allowing you to track hurricanes and other weather systems on your Macintosh desktop. Version 5.5 adds a new "Fit To Screen" projection and now fully supports dual GPUs on newer i5 and i7 Macs.