Pic-a-POD

Download pictures of the day...

Download the picture of the day from your choice of four sites: National Geographic Astronomy Earth Science Wikipedia Set your desktop picture to one of the downloaded photos. Schedule downloads to update automatically. Change the desktop picture periodically. Download photos of the day for any selected date. Mini view to free up desktop space.                       Picture Browser & Viewer to scan through all downloads.                   Themes allow you to select a color scheme or design your own. NEWS: National Geographic changed the structure of their web site (again), so that for a while Pic-a-POD could not find the address of any pictures for download. It took me a while to find a workaround, but it is now available. If you missed any pictures since 29th October 2007, step backwards through the days to get them all. This will be faster if you turn off all sources except National Geographic and then keep clicking the "Previous day" button.

Pic-a-POD 2 is now in the planning stages:

Download now:

• Version 1.2.2 for Mac OS X Universal Binary (for Intel or PPC Macs): Pic-a-POD_UB.dmg (2.7 MB)
           (requires 10.2.8 or better, 10.3 recommended, Tiger & Leopard-compatible)


• Version 1.2.2 for Mac OS X PPC: Pic-a-POD_PPC.dmg (1.7 MB)
           (requires 10.2.8 or better, 10.3 recommended, Tiger & Leopard-compatible)


• Version 1.2.2 for Windows: Pic-a-POD.zip (1.6 MB)
           (requires Windows XP or Vista)



• Pic-a-P∅D - Version 1.1.2d in Danish (Mac OS X, Universal Binary): Pic-a-POD_UB_Danish.dmg (2.7 MB)
           (requires 10.2.8 or better, 10.3 recommended, Tiger & Leopard-compatible)


• Pic-a-P∅D - Version 1.1.2d in Danish (Mac OS X, PPC): Pic-a-POD_PPC_Danish.dmg (2.1 MB)
           (requires 10.2.8 or better, 10.3 recommended, Tiger & Leopard-compatible)


• Pic-a-P∅D - Version 1.1.2d in Danish (Windows): Pic-a-POD_Danish.zip (1.6 MB)
           (requires Windows XP or Vista)

                  Last update released: Saturday 5th January, 2008

• 1.0.0: Initial release. Saturday, 24th December, 2005
• 1.0.1: Fix for problems downloading pictures when program was first run. Tuesday 27th December, 2005
• 1.0.2 & 1.0.3: Attempts to solve problems with Japanese dates. Wednesday 28th December, 2005
• 1.0.4: Fix for Japanese dates, better version checking for updates, 'Next' button now goes to 'Today' if the current date selected is yesterday. Thursday, 29th December, 2005
• 1.0.5: Pic-a-POD now downloads the pictures for the correct date, instead of the day before (test version only).
• 1.0.6: Fix for problem displaying files in some European file systems (test version only).
• 1.0.7: Miscellaneous fixes & improvements (test version only).
• 1.0.8: Changed scheduling for auto-downloads (test version only).
• 1.0.9: New picture source: Wikipedia. Monday 3rd April, 2006
• 1.1.0: Miscellaneous fixes & improvements (test version only).
• 1.1.1: Miscellaneous fixes & improvements (test version only).
• 1.1.2: Universal Binary available for Intel Macs. Added support for HTTP proxies. Desktop shows as Dock icon with dock menu (Mac only). Improvement to Picture Browser. Sunday 10th September, 2006
• 1.1.2d: Danish translation.
• 1.1.3 & 1.1.4: Internal test versions only.
• 1.1.5: Fix for new Wikipedia format. Better randomisation of desktop pictures. File size indication during download. Previous picture displayed while downloading the next. Sunday 1st April, 2007
• 1.1.6: Fix for another change to the Wikipedia format. Sunday 29th April, 2007
• 1.1.6d: Updated Danish versions. Sunday 27th May, 2007
• 1.1.7: Fix for new Wikipedia format. Allows re-downloading of captions (double-click on caption). Thursday 6th September, 2007
• 1.1.8: Temporary block to stop National Geographic download failures. Until I work out their new format or they change it again, no further pictures can be downloaded from National Geographic. Fix for accidental disabling of check boxes. Fix for picture deletion problem. Improved setting of proxies. Thursday 4th October, 2007
• 1.1.9: National Geographic pictures back online. Wide screen images will be downloaded if you have a large screen. Thursday 4th October, 2007
• 1.2.0: National Geographic pictures offline again :-( Monday 29th October, 2007
• 1.2.1: National Geographic pictures back online - manually load NG pictures since 29th October. Downloading wide screen pictures is now a settable preference. Improved editing of captions. Faster retrieval of previously downloaded images & captions. Less duplication of recent downloads in random desktop. Sunday 2nd December, 2007
• 1.2.2: Fixed a problem where National Geographic pictures became available but the captions were not yet updated. Updated Danish versions. Saturday 5th January, 2008

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