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).
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
