EarthView is a fairly cool dynamic desktop background/wallpaper + screensaver program that only takes earth as its theme, developed by DeskSoft from Austria. It gives us a direct bird's-eye view of the earth from outer space on desktop, and shows the shift of day and night (i.e. the daylight zone and dark area at night) and the atmospheric cloud changes in a dynamic way, which can give users a stunning visual experience.

If you need to make a high-resolution satellite map of a city or any specified area, then AllMapSoft's Google Satellite Maps Downloader (GSMD for short) this straightforward and intuitive small app can help you a lot. It automatically and very fast downloads numerous small piece of satellite maps on Google Maps (according to the user specified geographical coordinates: latitude and longitude range + zoom level) with ease, then combines them together and outputs as a huge image file in multiple common-used formats.