v3.1 [Jul 16, 2012]
- Ability to zoom into the continents.
- Updated time zone data.
v3.0 [Oct 26, 2008]
- ActiveEarth can check for updated time zone information periodically so you always have the current time zone rules.
- The new weather tab has current condition info and seven day forecasts for all the US and 40,000 international locations supplied by AccuWeather®.
- Current conditions can be displayed on clock faces, city icons on the map, and as corner objects.
- When adding a non-US city to the map, if the weather location cannot be matched automatically, a dialog appears showing every forecast location for that country from which the user can pick the closest one.
- Display city labels on the globe, including current weather condition icons.
- Globe smoothly animates between cities selected in the More Information tab.
- Click and drag the globe to see it from any angle.
- The ActiveEarth map (in any of the three projections) can be set as your desktop wallpaper and will update every four minutes as long as AE is running.
- You can hide the clock tray or the map to streamline ActiveEarth if desired.
- Current weather conditions for any city.
- Click and drag corner object globe to view it from any angle
- Corner objects can be resized
- Display optional, custom sub-labels with each city
- The default city list is now searchable and is improved containing all country capitals, time zone centers, and many major cities.
- Adding cities is vastly improved with easy searching. ActiveEarth uses the GeoNames.org service to provide access to millions of place names, providing latitude, longitude, and time zone automatically.
- When manually entering a location's details, if you right click on the map, ActiveEarth will do a reverse lookup on the latitude and longitude to pre-fill the country and time zone info.
- Different icons for map locations even including current weather condition icons
- View the time difference between a city and a group of cities all at once!
- The application can be set to be aware of Northern or Southern Hemisphere settings so that the moon appears more naturally and the dates of the preset seasons are correct for the southern hemisphere.
- ActiveEarth can be set to start up with Windows which is useful if you rely on desktop clocks or the screen background.
- Photo clocks now have an interface for selecting the background image from the local disk.
- Much more user control over styles and settings for both analog and digital clocks
- Clock groups -- Allows user to have different groups of clocks so that the map and clock tray don’t get cluttered. For example, you could have a group of clocks for all your company’s international sales offices, and another for far-flung family members.
- Clocks can be sorted in a variety of ways including a new user-defined sort
- All clocks now have drop shadows on the hands and most use new WPF (the latest Microsoft development technology) image processing features to improve the rendering appearance and performance.
- Countdown clocks can be used as alarm clocks and can play sound, MP3, or even a movie clip when the countdown event passes.
- Twelve additional clock designs (9 analog and 3 digital) for ActiveEarth including:
- The Neon Clock and Glass Clock -- you can specify the neon glow or glass colors or have them vary by minute or by hour
- Three new photo clocks (two analog and one digital) that can display still images or slide shows of images from local folders or even from RSS feeds!
- The Color Clock -- a pie-shaped wedge reveals wedges of different colors as time passes for a unique way to tell time
- The Digital Image Clock -- A digital clock that uses images for the numbers like a ransom note
- The desktop clock is now fully integrated into the main ActiveEarth application. Any clock can be "floated" on the desktop and moved or resized.
- Adjust clock properties, get time difference, astronomical information, and weather, all through a simple menu on the desktop clock.
- ActiveEarth can be set as your computer's screen saver
- Settings can be adjusted within the ActiveEarth preferences dialog, or through the Windows Control Panel
- On high-performance systems, objects can animate smoothly around the screen
- Globe animates smoothly between cities on your map.
v2.0 [Apr 7, 2008]
Total rewrite
