New! APOD software

PeterTheBike · Post by **PeterTheBike** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:03 pm

Thanks for the heads-up.

PeterTheBike · Post by **PeterTheBike** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:22 am

Any news about keeping the ratio when enlarging the image?

Titan must have been experiencing some unusual forces today

It is still a great bit of software though!

lior · Post by **lior** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 10:49 pm

PeterTheBike wrote:Any news about keeping the ratio when enlarging the image?

Titan must have been experiencing some unusual forces today

It is still a great bit of software though!

Unfortunately not yet.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 1:33 pm

yeah, this would be great, but it can't stand stretched images. I have my background set to black already, and if I like an APOD image, use that as my wallpaper, but Tethys looks like a beach ball that a 300 pound person sat on, and that's just undignified! Seriously, though, it's really annoying and I am uninstalling till that is fixed. Thanks.

lior · Post by **lior** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:30 pm

Anonymous wrote:yeah, this would be great, but it can't stand stretched images. I have my background set to black already, and if I like an APOD image, use that as my wallpaper, but Tethys looks like a beach ball that a 300 pound person sat on, and that's just undignified! Seriously, though, it's really annoying and I am uninstalling till that is fixed. Thanks.

A new version of APOD.exe is available at http://nightskylive.net/software/apod

This version allows users to eliminate the autmatic stretching of images and let the system do the job. Just select "preferences" from the menu and uncheck "Resize to Desktop".

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 4:10 am

thanks so much for the quick response! I'll try it out now!

Can't use my Bad Buoy · Post by **Can't use my Bad Buoy** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:59 am

Thanks

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:38 am

The installer claims the program is IE hijack remover?
does anyoneknow what is going on?

trucker743 · Post by **trucker743** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 5:41 am

Is it usable on a Mac? From the .exe extension, I doubt it, but I suspect a BUNCH of us MACies would love it!

John (Seattle) · Post by **John (Seattle)** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 9:56 pm

APOD.exe seems to cause crashes in Windows Explorer (shell) on XP.

I removed and re-installed the latest version and am still having this issue.

Perhaps it has something to do with a recent Windows service pack (since APOD seemd to work fine until about a week or two ago).

Anyone else having this problem?

John (Seattle) · Post by **John (Seattle)** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:05 pm

Correction: My problem was not caused by APOD.EXE. My problem was related to Microsoft's new Anti-Spyware tool. I removed the tool and APOD.EXE now runs flawlessly. Thanks again for this tool!

John

John (Seattle) wrote:APOD.exe seems to cause crashes in Windows Explorer (shell) on XP.

I removed and re-installed the latest version and am still having this issue.

Perhaps it has something to do with a recent Windows service pack (since APOD seemd to work fine until about a week or two ago).

Anyone else having this problem?

rp · Post by rp » Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:11 am

Love APOD!! Hate the fact that I forget to go everyday and would love a daily email reminder or link. Is this being considered? thx

makc · Post by **makc** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:23 am

Bookmark (add to Favorites) this link, or use JavaScript bookmark I use.

wekar · Post by **wekar** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:51 pm

You won't forget to go everyday if you make it your homepage!

William Roeder · Post by **William Roeder** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:55 pm

You can also use changeDetection.com or changeNotes.com, both are free (up to 100 web pages)

ChangeNotes sends one email per day containing a list of all your monitored pages that have changed including the text of the changes.

ChangeDetection sends one email per day per changed page.

bee43e · Post by **bee43e** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:25 pm

You can also try this software. It changes your background daily to the APOD

http://nightskylive.net/software/apod

skelley · Post by **skelley** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:21 am

Forget email updates, where's the RSS?

makc · Post by **makc** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:29 am

Here's RSS

lode · Post by **lode** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:12 am

Hello all,

A very nice site I discovered today

Great you'r doing this!

I have one question, in the FAQ is stated the following:

Q6: Can I use an APOD picture for my computer-screen background?
A6: For personal, non-commercial, non-public fair use, yes.

I had the idea that it would be great to always have the current APOD on my desktop by putting the url to the image of 'today'.
But th APOD has an absolute url (like today: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... t_full.jpg) instead of a relative one. Is it possible thats this might change? It would realy be great to wake up in the morning, start my pc, and see the new APOD

Greetings, Lode

makc · Post by **makc** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:33 pm

yes, they can add such an url, in theory...

they would need some script like <?php header("Location:" . func_to_generate_real_url_here() ); ?>

unfortunately, good things are rare.

lode · Post by **lode** » Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:34 pm

It doesn't need to be that 'complicated' does it?
You can just put the current APOD at ./apod.jpg?

makc · Post by **makc** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:59 am

lode wrote:You can just put the current APOD at ./apod.jpg?

No you can't, because that way you would have to rename it again and also edit html next day.

lode · Post by **lode** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:44 am

makc wrote:No you can't, because that way you would have to rename it again and also edit html next day.

You could just leave it as it is now. Just make a copy of the current APOD and store that one at ./apod.jpg
Nothing has to change then..

makc · Post by **makc** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:09 am

...what's your desktop system is? win? lin?

lode · Post by **lode** » Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:23 am

win xp at the moment

Starship Asterisk*

New! APOD software

Bump

wrong program

Night Sky Software

APOD.exe crashes Windows Explorer

Re: APOD.exe crashes Windows Explorer

APOD Wallpaper / Background Software

APOD Software

can the url to the image have the same link every time?