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Review
This is a quick review
The Cities of Earth 3D Screensaver is unique software that will show you the most important cities of our planet, with a lot of educational content.
It includes many cities and information about their population and country names.
The position of the cities shown corresponds to the real world coordinates.
You are able to add your favorite cities to the map, as well as eliminate the included cities and leave only the added ones.
The screensaver shows transitions of daylight and nighttime in accordance to the real position of the cities on Earth and the time zone in which they are located.
The transition from day to night is very slow but you will be able to notice it if you leave the screensaver on for a few hours.
In addition to the information about the cities, it displays the local time of each place shown.
The Cities of Earth 3D Screensaver consumes very little CPU resources, allowing other background tasks to run without significant speed losses.
You can control the position of the camera using the mouse to move it closer/farther.
You can also use the "up" and "down" arrows to control the view, and watch distant places as Antarctica or the North Pole.
Use the "left" and "right" arrows to speed up or slow down the camera rotation speed.
The Cities of Earth 3D Screensaver is guaranteed to provide you lots of hours of educational fun, and will be a very interesting piece of conversation among your coworkers or family members.
The following full-length review applies to version 1.4
Do you have a globe of the Earth at home?
Do you know the location and information about the major cities in the world?
Cities of Earth 3D Screensaver brings a globe and information to your desktop.
This unique screensaver is not only that: a screensaver.
This can be considered a very good information source regarding the major cities of our world, and more.
There are many cities included, and you can even add more.
Maybe you can even add your own city! In the developer’s page, there are instructions on how to download the required data for many cities of many countries.
You will be watching our beautiful planet from outer space.
The view is awesome. The black background spotted with stars and a couple of suns give the scene a very realistic feeling.
The Earth starts to rotate, and immediately it begins to light up different places on the surface, and at the same time the name of the city and some information about it, start scrolling down on the right side.
As the planet turns, some cities turn off and new ones turn on, showing their names and info to your right.
It really includes a lot of different cities.
But there is still more.
Cities of Earth 3D Screensaver can be configured, as I already mentioned, to display only the major cities, all the cities in its database, and even your own.
But, something that attracted me much, was the ability to speed up or slow down the speed of rotation.
That way, I was able to speed up a little while the ocean was in front of me, and slow it down to appreciate all the cities highlighted.
Sometimes it tried to show many cities at almost the same time, and it got a bit crowded on the screen
This screensaver can be very educational for your kids, and even for grown-ups.
You will surely not only enjoy it, but will also USE it regularly. |
- Very informative.
- It contains MANY cities in MANY countries.
- The speed control is a great idea.
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- When you want to see many cities, sometimes they overlap or change to quickly.
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Reviewed by: Fernando Soni Reviewer rating:  |
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