prMac serves to enhance the visibility of press releases in the Mac world, offering Mac-centric news media distribution services as well as top-notch RSS feeds. © 2012 prMac http://prmac.com/ en-us http://prmac.com/release-id-16708.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-16708.htm Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:30:00 CST 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. http://prmac.com/release-id-13930.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-13930.htm Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:00:00 CST Xeric Design today announced EarthDesk 5.4, 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 or Windows desktop. Version 5.4 allows a single map to be seamlessly spanned across all connected displays. http://prmac.com/release-id-11450.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-11450.htm Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:00:00 CST Xeric Design today announces EarthDesk 5.3, 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 or Windows desktop. Version 5.3 provides a work-around for a long standing screen saver hang in OS 10.6. http://prmac.com/release-id-10202.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-10202.htm Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:00:00 CST Xeric Design today announces EarthDesk 5.2, 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 or Windows desktop. Version 5.2 adds a fourth map style - a new high-resolution shaded relief map. The cloud updating mechanism has been greatly improved. http://prmac.com/release-id-8723.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-8723.htm Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:30:00 CST Xeric Design today announced EarthDesk 5.1.1, an update to its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map for Mac OS X. EarthDesk 5 was entirely rewritten in Cocoa, adds many new features and is compatible with both Leopard and Snow Leopard. Version 5.1.1 fixes a stubborn bug that caused partially downloaded cloud images to be displayed, resulting in a milky white area across the bottom portion of the map. http://prmac.com/release-id-8247.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-8247.htm Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:00:00 CST Xeric Design today announced EarthDesk 5.1, an update to its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map for Mac OS X. EarthDesk 5 was entirely rewritten in Cocoa, adds many new features and is compatible with both Leopard and Snow Leopard. Version 5.1 adds a new cloud contrast control, fixes minor bugs and has several internal improvements. EarthDesk replaces your static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, and more. http://prmac.com/release-id-6394.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-6394.htm Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:56:00 CST Xeric Design today is pleased to announce the release of EarthDesk 5.0.1, a major upgrade to its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map, for Macintosh OS X. EarthDesk 5.0 has been entirely rewritten in Cocoa, adds many new features and is fully compatible with both Leopard and the upcoming Snow Leopard. Version 5.0.1 is an update to fix three issues uncovered since the release of 5.0. http://prmac.com/release-id-6296.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-6296.htm Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:58:00 CST Xeric Design today is pleased to announce EarthDesk 5.0, a major upgrade to its award-winning, real-time dynamic desktop map for OS X. Version 5.0 has been entirely rewritten in Cocoa, adds many new features and is fully compatible with both Leopard and the upcoming Snow Leopard. 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. http://prmac.com/release-id-4798.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-4798.htm Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:06:00 CST Xeric Design, Ltd. today announced the release of EarthDesk 4.7. EarthDesk replaces the static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage, allowing users to track hurricanes and other weather systems on their Macintosh or Windows desktop. Version 4.7 gives the user control over the map cache process, resulting in faster startup times. http://prmac.com/release-id-4134.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-4134.htm Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:46:00 CST Xeric Design, Ltd. today announced the release of EarthDesk 4.6. EarthDesk replaces the static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage, allowing users to track hurricanes and other weather systems on their Macintosh or Windows desktop. Version 4.6 increases the natural map detail by 25% making for crisper images at high zoom-levels. http://prmac.com/release-id-2748.htm http://prmac.com/release-id-2748.htm Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:51:00 CST Xeric Design, Ltd. today announced the release of EarthDesk 4.4. EarthDesk replaces the static desktop with an image of the Earth showing current sun, moon and city illumination, as well as real-time global cloud coverage, allowing users to track hurricanes and other weather systems on their Macintosh or Windows desktop. Version 4.4 improves the handling of satellite cloud images and is able to detect and ignore images with missing data sent from the satellite receiving station.