Do you have Natural Desktop?
Wednesday, June 14, 2006 by Frogboy | Discussion: WinCustomize News
Summer is here and many of us are stuck in doors at times we don't want to. One of my favorite programs that I highly recommend to others is called Natural Desktop. Natural Desktop 2006 has been out for awhile now. It's not brand new. What it does is look at the current weather, the current time of day, your location, and then changes your wallpaper and provides a weather portal.
But that's not the part that I love the most these days. The killer aspect for me of Natural Desktop are the sounds. Forget the screenshots, you can minimize Natural Desktop so that there is no visual part. It's the audio of it. Natural Desktop plays nature sounds based on weather, time of day, etc. So during the course of the day, you'll hear morning doves or cicadas or frogs or whatever. And it's very subtle and nice.
The whole program is only $10 ($9 if you have Object Desktop). The sounds alone are worth that in my (admittedly biased) opinion. Just having all those natural sounds playing throughout the day while indoors is very nice to have.
It's website is www.naturaldesktop.com.
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Reply #2 Wednesday, June 14, 2006 8:27 PM
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Reply #6 Saturday, June 17, 2006 3:46 PM
but 'Check for Updates' is greyed out...which is a little weird.
Where in Natural Desktop can I do this: "so defaulting the sound to Media Player worked" Does this mean going into WMP and making it the default player for all sounds? Did that. Rebooted just for the heck of it...still no sounds from ND
Reply #7 Saturday, June 17, 2006 4:09 PM
or maybe just selecting for mp3/wav
Reply #8 Saturday, June 17, 2006 4:18 PM
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Reply #12 Saturday, June 17, 2006 6:53 PM
gonna try and see what happens...
you might want to rename the codec back.
Reply #13 Saturday, June 17, 2006 6:58 PM
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Reply #15 Saturday, June 17, 2006 8:53 PM
much better with the sound, huh?
just got 10 installed (dial up) now I gotta update it (10.00.00.3646)
Reply #16 Sunday, June 18, 2006 11:46 AM
Is there a setting in the player which would cause it to grey out 'update player'?
Reply #18 Sunday, June 18, 2006 12:38 PM
('thanks for you help'???? geez thanks for YOUR help
Reply #19 Sunday, June 18, 2006 1:17 PM
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I have 10.00.00.3646, yet when I check updates it says I have the most current and there are no updates. Is yours an 11 beta by chance?
Reply #20 Sunday, June 18, 2006 3:30 PM
(just li'l ol' paranoid me). Hmm, just tried to dl WMP 10 from MS website and it took me to 11 beta. Can't even DL ver 10. I really don't think I will upgrade to 11. I don't have the 'Urge' (ha ha ha) and don't want it.Please login to comment and/or vote for this skin.
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Reply #1 Wednesday, June 14, 2006 7:24 PM
It's winter here...and I've been suffering with the flu for about a week....maybe if I 'cheat' and pretend I'm In the Northern hemisphere I can have Natural Desktop cheer up my day...