If you are like many Mac users who spend time looking for the perfect desktop picture or icon set to enhance the appearance of your Mac's interface, Sundial may be the perfect utility, adding functionality that no other utility matches.
Sundial allows for time-captured movies to be displayed as desktop images. Using your Mac's clock, this enables Sundial to display a certain image based on the time of day, allowing you to watch the sun rise and set on your desktop, for example. Two versions of Sundial are available, Hawaii and California. Each contains a collection of ten attractive and well-photographed locations that were taken throughout the day.
Admitedly most of the nearly-300 photos taken at each location over 24 hours look the same, apart from differences in cloud formations or shadows, but watching the sun rise or set on your Mac's screen as it does so outside is undeinably cool. Not to mention that you'd be hard pressed to find higher-quality images that work so well as desktops.
For users who prefer static images, Sundial also includes a small number from each scene, although it may be hard to justify purchasing Sundial just for a few photos.
Sundial 3.0 is the first version of the utility to enable users to use their own images to create their own personalized backgrounds. All QuicktTime-readable file formats can be used with Sundial, allowing an iMovie, for example, to be used as a background.
Sundial itself requires roughly 3 MB of RAM, but it doesn't noticeably degrade your Mac's performance any more than using a static desktop picture does. The scenes are also available in three resolutions (640x480, 832x624, and 1024x768).
At $19.95 for each collection, Sundial is an affordable solution for users wishing to spice up their desktop.
