APOD Viewer for Mac
Widget displays NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Free
In English
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APOD Viewer overview
APOD Viewer is a Dashboard widget for displaying the "Astronomy Picture of the Day" from NASA's Web page. Each day a new image is presented along with a description by a professional astronomer.
In addition to showing the current image "APOD Viewer" also lets you see the accompanying explanation by simply clicking the image. Furthermore it can be used to browse the archives and can show a random image.
The widget has a simple and compact user interface. It is resizable to fit any screen size and provides you with easy keyboard shortcuts for easy interaction with the widget.
This is not the first APOD widget made, but download and try it to see why it, as one reviewer commented, is an APOD widget done right.
Features:
- Automatically updates
- Browse the APOD archive
- Clean, simple, and compact interface
- Customizable size
- Keyboard shortcuts
What’s new in version 2.7
Version 2.7:
- Adds better support for movies, corrects a preference bug, as well as numerous other minor improvements and bug fixes.
APOD Viewer for Mac
Free
In English
Version 2.7
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User Ratings
Feb 27 2009
Version: 2.3
This is a great widget, beautifully thought out, but it has suddenly started acting strangely for me. The widget never gets more than about an inch wide (no matter how tall), and the picture is cut off on the right, a couple of pixels beyond the apparent left edge of the widget frame.
I tried reinstalling, but no joy...
Anyone have any ideas?
Feb 23 2007
Version: 2.3
Very nice to see this working again. I had given up on the previous, broken version and deleted it just last week.
The auto-scaling, selectable sizing, intuitive operation, and clean presentation of the details is very well done and makes this one of the two most elegant widgets I use (the other being iStat Pro).
Thanks for the fixes!
Nov 7 2006
Version: 2.1
Note that there currently is some problems with the back-forwards buttons, and the widget stops responding when the network connection is lost. This will be fixed in the upcomming release.