Filed under: Design, Fun, Windows, Freeware, Mods
Desktop Earth 2.0 - Today's mod
by Jason Clarke Apr 3rd 2006
Desktop Earth is an oldie, but a real goodie. It
allowed you to display a globe or map on your desktop that would move according to the time, either keeping your
location centered with light changing to show the relative position of the sun, or showing from the sun's perspective
with the earth rotating or moving by.
While very cool, Desktop Earth is extremely long in the tooth. Luckily, a new version has been released, dubbed appropriately Desktop Earth 2.0. In the new version, the imagery is based on NASA's Blue Marble Next and Earth's City Lights, and is generated from very high-resolution textures (2560x1280).
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
