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Price: $19.95
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Registration Key: Provided with purchase
Downloads: 82838
Version: 3.4
Submitted: 03/09/07
Download Time: 15 min @ 56k
Author: Blue Point Studio
Support: support@bluepointstudio.com
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Pocket Earth 3.4
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ARM/XScale
MIPS and SH3 available by request only
Pocket Earth is a powerful PocketPC application that
displays an interactive 3D Earth in your palm. We introduced several new
features in release 3.0 and a few more in this release.
Please Note:
The demo version may only be run 15
times after which it will expire.
We recommend that you first uninstall any previous version of Pocket
Earth before installing this version, just to be safe. If you have created your
own map or route files or modified the cities database in the previous version,
it is recommended to back them up first and restore them after installation is
complete.
What's new in version 3.3
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Large icons and fonts for VGA mode
- Minor bug fixes
Features in Version 3.2
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VGA mode support
- Landscape mode
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Speed improvements
Features in Version 3.1
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An updated and Fully Editable
36,000+ city database
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Additonal weather information (Wind speed, Visibility, Relative Humidity, Dew
Point etc.)
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Minor bug fixes
Features in Version 3.0
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GPS Support (NMEA-0183 standard)
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Real-time Weather for select cities with Auto-update
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Moon phase, rise/set, elevation and azimuth
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Search by City Population
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Support for multiple Skins and Fonts
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Improved graphics
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Several other user defined features
Existing Features
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Display city's time, date and next DST transition
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Display Sunrise/Sunset times for any city
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Distinct twilight modes: civil, nautical and astronomical
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Locate any city by name
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Animated rotation to located city
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Automatic update of Earth's shadow
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Automatic pseudo rotation of Earth
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Extended color selection
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Suspend mode
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Interactive 3D Earth rotation
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Colorful Physical, Political and other maps
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Dual mapping channels with several overlay modes
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Dynamic multi-point visual distance measurement tool
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Distances in kilometers, miles and nautical miles
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Coarse and fine zoom controls
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Zoom to selection
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10, 15 or 30 degree lat/lon grid lines
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Spherical and planar views
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Sun spot and Earth shadow in real time
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Special Day/Night overlay mode
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Sun''s azimuth and elevation at any point on earth in real time
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Snap any point on earth to nearest known city
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User defined snap radius
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Lat/lon and antipode information at any point on earth
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Tropical and Polar circles
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Texture brightness control
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Texture smoothing
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User defined Route files (for ex. Historical Routes etc.)
Minimum system requirements:
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PocketPC 2000, 2002 or 2003
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About 2.0 MB of storage space and 4 MB of available runtime memory
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Although it work with older devices using 4096 (12-bit) colors, it looks its
best on a 65536 (16-bit) color display
Copyright © 2002-2005 BluePointStudio
Copyright © 2006-2007 Informap
All rights reserved.
Please send your valuable feedback and suggestions to
support@informap.com
Compatible Devices
See Product Description, See Product Description
Requirements
Requires PocketPC, PocketPC 2002 or 2003, 2.0 MB of storage and 4 MB of runtime RAM
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Entertaining and educative at the same time
Jean-Louis
from Rockville, MD, January 31, 2007
It's been almost three weeks now that I've had this software and I have to admit that I got smarter without any pain. The graphics are good (not the best) and the images are very entertaining. The geographical information available is wonderful for just an average learner (like me) with interests in geography. I just wish that it would zoom at least to the city level. Beside that, it's like having the world in the palm of your hand.
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Must try the Trial Version First
A reviewer
from Reston, VA, November 27, 2006
Use the trial version first, to see if this product lives up to your expectations. I was very disappointed with the graphic quality and the inability to zoom closer than--in my case--the whole of N.America. There's no detail at all. The GPS is fun but useful only if your driving from DC to LA and want to see your course from a high orbit above earth.
Still, it's a fun little program to play with, but really has no pratical use on my Axim X30. Clearly some reviewers are quite pleased with PE. Maybe it's better on newer PPCs.
So try it out. What you see on your own PPC is what you get.
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A real disappointment
Hon. Lord Knowle, KT
from Corfe Mullen, Wimborne, England, July 22, 2006
Had a go with the demo, and after getting very frustrated with it, couldn't really see the point of the program, and that was after countless faults. The icons on the base toolbar don't really explain what they do and the Help file doesn't come up with anything to point you at the right direction.
Wimbourne Minster (UK Town) is spelt wrong for a start (which does annoy residents like me if the publishers can't even research the town info properly!)... it should be Wimborne (no 'u'). The program also appears to have no facility to home in a chosen default town/city e.g. Wimborne, in my case.
The program tries looking for the GRPS signal on a COM port which my Vario MDA doesn't support ... even though you said it would work. It also means that if I am using my device on wireless to my broadband link, the updates don't work.
The weather updates didn't work ... just came up with a load of error messages.
The program wouldn't zoom in very far, so England remains a tiny map area which doesn't allow distance mapping to work effectively.
Nice try, but I think I'll have a look at some of the competitive products.
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