Picofday is a handy and reliable program that was designed to download The Picture of the Day from various websites.
The program features five different categories based on the website that supplied the image. Just run this program once a day or at your preferred sequence and have latest and greatest images from these sites on your computer.
Here are some key features of "Picturethrill":
Download button:
· downloads images from selected sites, like Bing, National Geographic, NASA, etc.
View Folder button:
· open folder where images have been downloaded in Windows Explorer
Advanced button:
· displays Advanced Settings dialog
Requirements:
· .NET Framework 4.0
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Performance:
· Faster app load time. Images are downloaded in parallel whenever possible. Faster install/uninstall process.
Cache Service:
· When website is unavailable, display image from previous day
Fix to Earth Science Provider:
· Earth Science web site http://epod.usra.edu has changed their image layout and Picturethrill is now updated to understand this new layout.
Option to save images to hard drive:
· Advanced dialog provides users with ability to save images daily to their hard drive, if they choose to do so.