Earth To Your Desk

Do you spend your entire day dreaming of drinking a cocktail on that Tropical Island pictured on your desktop? Well, snap out of it — you've got some work to do. Instead of focusing on a distant fantasy, why don't you stop torturing yourself and put something useful on your background. No, I'm not talking about that picture you had scanned of you and Kareem Abdul Jabbar from your stint at basketball camp, but something actually useful.

The Folks at Xeric Design have just the thing to get you and your desktop focused on the now. Earthdesk provides both Mac and Windows users with a compelling, constantly updating image of the 3rd planet from the sun. Users of the application have access to 11 different political, satellite and natural map projections that will afford them the ability to see cloud cover in real time with transparency and moonlight reflection not to mention accurate depiction of sun, moon, and city lighting. You can also track that hurricane that's headed to that Tropical Island of your previous daydreams. No more using The Weather Channel as your middle man, you can get the info right on your desktop.

Via Coolhunting