Webcam and synchronized globe

In the above screenshot you can see an animated globe in the background of the desktop. At the bottom right side of the desktop the globe is covered by the live picture of a webcam. There's a marker to the top left of the globe, indicating the location of this particular webcam. When you run this preset with DeskoverX, the webcam changes every ten seconds and the globe zooms in on the new webcam's location. The globe displays the current day and night side of the earth. Compare it with the live pictures from all over the world!

Loading This Preset

DeskoverX ships with several presets of the most common background layouts (see the other screenshots and descriptions on this website). It's quite easy to load a preset. Here's a short summary of how to load the preset for the above screenshot :

• Start DeskoverX. Now there's the icon for DeskoverX in the system-tray (the area with the small icons and the clock in the taskbar. You can see it in the lower right corner of the screenshot above ).
• Click on the DeskoverX icon and a menu appears. Choose Load layout...
• The layout selection window appears. At the top left you can see a list of presets. On the right there's a description of the currently highlighted preset. Click on Globe and Cam. Now that you have selected this preset click the Load button at the bottom of the selection window.
• Enjoy.

To learn more about DeskoverX and how to use it, take a look at the Online Help