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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 6:03 pm
by PeterTheBike
Thanks for the heads-up.
Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 11:22 am
by PeterTheBike
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!
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 10:49 pm
by lior
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.
Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 1:33 pm
by Guest
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.
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:30 pm
by lior
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".
Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 4:10 am
by Guest
thanks so much for the quick response! I'll try it out now!
Bump
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 3:59 am
by Can't use my Bad Buoy
Thanks
![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
wrong program
Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:38 am
by Guest
The installer claims the program is IE hijack remover?
does anyoneknow what is going on?
Night Sky Software
Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 5:41 am
by trucker743
Is it usable on a Mac? From the .exe extension, I doubt it, but I suspect a BUNCH of us MACies would love it!
APOD.exe crashes Windows Explorer
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 9:56 pm
by John (Seattle)
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?
Re: APOD.exe crashes Windows Explorer
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:05 pm
by John (Seattle)
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?
APOD Wallpaper / Background Software
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:11 am
by rp
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
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 11:23 am
by makc
Bookmark (add to Favorites)
this link, or use
JavaScript bookmark I use.
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:51 pm
by wekar
You won't forget to go everyday if you make it your homepage!
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 3:55 pm
by William Roeder
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.
APOD Software
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:25 pm
by bee43e
You can also try this software. It changes your background daily to the APOD
http://nightskylive.net/software/apod
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:21 am
by skelley
Forget email updates, where's the RSS?
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:29 am
by makc
Here's
RSS ![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
can the url to the image have the same link every time?
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:12 am
by lode
Hello all,
A very nice site I discovered today
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
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
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:33 pm
by makc
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.
Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 2:34 pm
by lode
It doesn't need to be that 'complicated' does it?
You can just put the current APOD at ./apod.jpg?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 7:59 am
by makc
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 9:44 am
by lode
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..
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:09 am
by makc
...what's your desktop system is? win? lin?
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:23 am
by lode
win xp at the moment