01-10-2004, 08:00 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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@Sat Orbiter Locator+ by Survivorsoft
"@Sat puts the wonder of space in the palm of your hand. Designed with simplicity in mind, @Sat makes it easy to track and display real-time trajectories of spacecraft such as the International Space Station, the Hubble Telescope, the Shuttle, and the Mars Rovers. Download the latest images from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Mars Rovers Missions and keep up to date on the latest space exploration headlines..."
Since a lot of you have space fever this week, I thought this would be an appropriate piece of software to look at. :-) [Affiliate]
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01-11-2004, 03:15 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 41
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Here's what "I" am looking forward to! Nice looking software. Now I just want it for my i600. 
Quoted from the company website:
@Sat will be available for Microsoft Smartphones January 15ht.
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01-11-2004, 09:25 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 193
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I was interested...until I saw its only WM2k3 :cry:
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01-12-2004, 12:20 AM
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Executive Editor, Android Thoughts
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 3,233
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Anyone using this? I didn't see a trial, I'd love this software but want to hear some reactions first.
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01-12-2004, 02:20 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 103
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interesting that there's no "trial" or "evaluation" period...
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01-12-2004, 02:47 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 193
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Well, I was ready to use it sight unseen when I went there, even without the trial until I saw it was for WM2k3. I emailed the devs and just said I hoped they were going to do a PPC2k2 version. The really cool guys over at Survivorsoft sent me an email about 20 minutes later with the program and told me that they didn't feel it would perform well on PPC2k2 but said I was welcome to try it out and see if I agreed. So after installing the .NET SP2 like they said, I installed the software.
Survivorsoft...your program is awesome. This program is everything I wanted it to be. I'm running it on a Toshiba e740 and while I will admit it is a bit slow at times, it is not unmanagably slow. I highly recommend anyone who was thinking of getting this to go buy it. It does exactly what it says. Gives some pictures, and of course the important locations of things in the sky as well as some news.
I wish I had a WM2k3 device to compare this next to to see how it runs...but if its not /that/ slow on my Toshiba...so I can only imagine that it runs really well on anything better.
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01-12-2004, 04:30 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Apr 2007
Posts: 630
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Are you lmited to the sats they give you?
Can you input a vector for any satellite or just the ones they mention? I test and will fly a scientific satellite and would like to enter the orbit so it could be included.
Is it customizable in this way?
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01-12-2004, 05:27 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2002
Posts: 222
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by dadarkmcse
Anyone using this? I didn't see a trial, I'd love this software but want to hear some reactions first.
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You should see a review here on Pocket PC Thoughts in the near future. I'm working on it right now.
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01-12-2004, 06:20 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 498
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For the most part this program is pretty cool, but I noticed that I can't save the Mars Rover images for offline viewing. The Hubble images get saved to the installation directory (SD card in my case), but the Mars images are loaded dynamically. Anyone else see this? If this is true, this seems like a pretty big oversight. I emailed the support over at survivorsoft, so hopefully I'll hear back from them about this.
EDIT: I heard back, and they are aware of this and are working on it.
Cheers!
Josh
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01-12-2004, 07:53 PM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,186
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I just purchased this and it looks really nifty! Is anyone else having problems getting new info/pictures to download, though? I'm stuck with what's in the initial download - no pictures and old news. 
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