APOD - Astronomy Picture of the Day

Displays the Astronomy Picture of the Day on your desktop. A description of the image is available in a slide out text area that can be positioned on any side of the Widget. Allows you to browse back and forth to previous pictures of the day. Double clicking any image opens the webpage to view the full size version. The frame and text can be coloured to your wishes, or hidden individually or together. Manual refreshes, refresh timers, and automatic Widget update checking are all configurabl… More

Current Version: 2.72

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June 16, 2006 · version 2.2 Tsaxman28
Terrific widget! Only one minor problem. . . the slide out frame only displays one line and there doesn't seem to be a way to scroll through the text.
June 09, 2006 · version 2.2 Mark (author)
The missing .kon file on your work machine sounds like a bad download. Try it again, but Ctrl-Click the download link to force IE to bypass your local file cache.

The OS X problem is unusual, it sounds like a bug in the UB version of YWE . I'll post a query on the support forum and get the support people to look at it. Does version 2.1 work on your OS X machine?
June 09, 2006 · version 2.2 DDA
Sorry for the double comment. I downloaded this version to my work machine (WinXP Pro; SP2. Widget Engine 3.1.4 build 104) and it complains it cannot open the .kon file.

So I'm back to the 2.1 version.
June 09, 2006 · version 2.2 DDA
Hi Mark...Yes, it does it for every day; I tried several days thinking it might be some funky character in the description.

I'm not running a beta version as far as I know; I simply upgraded when my current version said a new version was available (note that the UB probably means Universal Binary). I can check again what version is available when I get home. Thanks for responding!
June 09, 2006 · version 2.2 DDA
Hi Mark...Yes, it does it for every day; I tried several days thinking it might be some funky character in the description.

I'm not running a beta version as far as I know; I simply upgraded when my current version said a new version was available (note that the UB probably means Universal Binary). I can check again what version is available when I get home. Thanks for responding!