Living Earth is the best and most beautiful world clock and weather app for your Mac! The award winning app for iPhone and iPad is now available with a single click from your Mac menu bar offering easily accessible world times and weather for millions of cities around the world. Aug 16, 2010 The current temperature for your location can be displayed on your Home Screen icon. Stars, constellations, and the Milky Way are displayed accurately in time and space. ICloud city syncing between all devices including Living Earth App for Mac. You can’t go wrong with this app. You won’t be disappointed with it at all.

Earth weather free download - Earth Weather, Earth Weather, Earth Weather Lite, and many more programs. Living Earth Desktop is a menu bar app. All of Living Earth's features are accessible from the temperature and conditions icon on your menu bar in the upper right of your display, including closing Living Earth and setting your preferences. You can easily access Living Earth with a hotkey (Option-W by default). You can configure a.

Previously, the Living Earth HD, world clock and weather, was available only for iOS. Now, it’s been brought over to the Mac, and it’s equally spectacular. Plus, it includes desktop and screen saver functions.

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The iOS version of this app was previously reviewed, and it was given a high rating. What’s nice about this app is the tasteful design, aesthetics, and lots of information on the global weather in cities that the user can specify.

Moving to the Mac

In moving to OS X, Living Earth Desktop is an app that launches (into) a Menu bar item. The icon in the Menu bar is a cloudiness indicator side-by-side with the temperature in the selected city.

Clicking the icon brings up a good sized window of planet Earth, showing the current, visible cloud conditions and the cities list. As with the iOS version, the selected city is a pale blue dot. However, also as with the iOS version, one cannot zoom in very far. The developer said he’s wortking on that. So far, it looks a lot like its iOS counterpart.

This is as far as one can zoom in.

In the migration to the Mac, there are new opportunities. You can make the current view of Earth the desktop. Unfortunately, due to restrictions by Apple, it’s not possible to interact with the desktop, so grabbing the Earth with the mouse and rotating it to the desired location is not possible. Instead, like a slide show, the desktop view changes from city to city in the list.

Make the Living Earth your desktop (in all Spaces)

However, in the Menu bar window, you can zoom in and out with the scroll wheel on a mouse or by pinching on a Magic Trackpad. Double-click also zooms in.

If you click once on one of the cities, you’ll get a longer range forecast with the calendar dates on the left.

Clicking on one of the days, shows a curve over time for selected parameters like temperature or humidity.

There is also a screen saver mode. Apps purchased via the Mac App Store must use a different screen saver methodology, so this screen saver won’t appear in your System Preferences. First, you turn off any screen saver in System Prefs, set the Energy Saver to sleep after Living Earth would kick in, and then you’ll get a beautiful image of Earth that has several nice options: rotate the Earth slow or fast, cycle through your own selected cities, or through major global cities.

This migration to the Mac is very nice and affords all these new facilities. It’s a technical app that one can embrace with enthusiasm.

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Issues

In this 1.0 version, released Aug 23, 2012, I found (possibly) two minor issues. First, there may be a conflict with the Layers app used for screen shots. The problem is not nailed down yet. Second, LEHD will occasionally quit when changing Lion Spaces. I’ve alerted the developer, and he’s looking into both issues aggressively.

Requirements

OS X 10.6.8 or later. 64-bit processor. English only. Tested under Lion, 10.7.4. Available in the Mac App Store.

Conclusion

LEHD is a spectacularly good looking app that is also very useful, especially if you have an interest in checking on the weather in various global locations. For example, family members who are traveling. It’s also a gorgeous screen saver. However, I personally don’t like a desktop that has a lot of black space. You may feel differently.

The bugs I saw seem minor and will, I expect, be fixed in a coming update. The developer is already working on them. I’ll update this quick look review when I know more. Meanwhile, it gets a provisional Solid+ rating.

Update

The developer has found the issue with the app quitting on a Spaces change. It happens only after the screen saver has activated. It will be fixed in the next release.

Aug 29: Version 1.01 was released and fixes that bug.

Product:Living Earth HD for Mac v. 1.0

Company:RadiantLabs, LLC

List Price: $4.99 (half price for limited time)

Best Mac App

Rating:
Pros:

A beautiful, tasteful app that shows the world’s weather.

Cons:

A fee minor 1.0 bugs. Cannot zoom in very far.

From severe weather warnings to radar maps and future forecast, these are the very best weather apps for Mac!

The weather dictates how we plan for our days, from what we wear to what activities we can plan for. If you spend a lot of time on your Mac, a good weather app can keep you up to date on today's weather and tomorrow's forecast. But which Mac weather apps are the best? Here are my favorites!

Living Earth

Living Earth is a simple weather app that sits in your task bar and pulls information from Weather Underground. It shows the current temperature for your current location as well as an icon showing current conditions. Clicking on it expands the view to show all the locations you're monitoring. Click on any one of them to view a brief 7-day forecast for that area. Drill down even further to reveal hourly data. Living Earth also comes bundled with a pretty awesome screen saver as well as a desktop option that can show a globe with current weather conditions.

If you want the most visually appealing weather experience or a desktop option, Living Earth is a great choice.

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Weather Live

Weather Live is a standalone weather app but also has an option to place it in the menu bar. You are shown basic weather elements at a quick glance such as humidity, precipitation, pressure, and visibility. Below that you're given an hourly breakdown followed by weather predictions for the next four days. The settings menu has a few different layout as well that give a little different information if you prefer.

If you want basic weather but prefer having a customizable interface, Weather Live provides that.

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Clear Day

Clear Day is a gorgeous weather app with stunning animations. On top of that it supports iCloud sync so you can sync all your weather data from iOS and Mac. For the US, Canada, and Australia you can view detailed radar maps via NOAA. The National Weather Service is also integrated for US and Europe for weather warnings in your area. Clear Day also offers more info in the menu bar than many others do, mainly weather for multiple locations in just a click instead of just your current location.

If you want a stunning experience that's consistent across OS X and iOS, look no further than Clear Day.

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Degrees

Degrees is a simple little weather widget that sits in your menu bar and shows you an icon representation of current weather conditions next to the current temperature. That's it. You can enter the preferences panel to add multiple locations and change from Celsius to Fahrenheit but that's about it. It's simple, it's easy, and nothing more.

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