Spinning Earth
( Click here to go to Utech Spinning Earth for WordPress )
Free to download, free to use
The Spinning Earth is a tiny Flash movie that can be displayed on your website or application. Unlike conventional movie clips, it is extremely small in size (less than 50kB!), yet rich in graphical content. Other rotating globes are either huge in file size or have very basic graphics. A sophisticated algorithm allowed us to combine the best of both worlds; a small file and great looking graphics.
Spinning Earth is free and you can set the background to any color you like (see readme.txt).
Still using Internet Explorer and getting an error when opening the zip file? Try FireFox!
Alternatively download SpinningEarth.7z which can be opened with the free 7-Zip from
How to put Spinning Earth on your webpage
For instructions how to embed Spinning Earth into your website please see readme.txt which is enclosed in the download.
Attention WordPress users
If you use WordPress there is an even simpler solution with a plugin. Please follow this link to go to the Spinning Earth for WordPress plugin page.
The Challange
Want a FREE copy of World Time Manager? If you can find a video clip of a rotating earth anywhere that is at least as good looking as Spinning Earth and is the same size or smaller, you will get two World Time licenses for free. As long as what you find is equally or better in file size, appearance, spins jerk free as slow or slower and is also resizable, you have earned yourself those licenses for World Time Manager.
To participate, just send us the link to where you found it and we will send you the registration details for two World Time Manager programs. Please note there are a number of copies of the Spinning Earth out there meanwhile, so obviously they do not count.
GRACIAS POR EL RELOJ
[...] Spinning Earth [...]
Fabulous and elegant! and easy to use! and small file size!
Well done and many thanks!
This is a very elegant animation indeed. So bad every time I download this the file is corrupted (So says Winarj, and 7-Zip says this is a compression format not supported).
Thank you for your feedback and for pointing this out Valter, I have made some changes to the page. Spinning Earth can now be downloaded as 7-zip file as well. Thanks again.
I cannot unzip file with any program.
Which file are you trying to unizip (there is a zip and 7z forma) and which operating system are you using?
I have Windows 7 Pro 64bit, I believe I tried the included zip program, 7zip and winrar.
I have already finished the project that I needed this for so I will not need the globe.
Thanks,
Alex Molitor
Hello, is it possible to setup this globe to a transparent background? I’m presently using revolver maps but they are heavy on resources. You can see more at http://www.skyriver.org
I’d like to make the globe at 180 pixels.
Thanks
Den
Yes Den, that should not be a problem. Simply replace the bgcolor parameter in the OBJECT and EMBED tag with the WMODE parameters:
1. In the OBJECT tag:
replace
<param name="bkcolor" value="#....>with
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">2. In the EMBED tag:
replace
bgcolor="#..."with
wmode="transparent"Hope this helps
Cheers
Meini