The phrase "a desktop program" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to software applications that are designed to run on a desktop computer rather than on mobile devices or the web.
Example: "I prefer using a desktop program for video editing because it offers more features and better performance than mobile apps."
Alternatives: "a desktop application" or "a desktop software".
As with Photosynth, Photofly users need a desktop program to upload the photos to Autodesk's servers — a program that is currently only available for Windows users.
A desktop program then deletes any copies left on a user's computer, and can detect if that user tries to add copies later.
In college, he developed Ximian Gnome, a desktop program that is a lot like Microsoft Windows but differs in one fundamental way.
EverNote, a free app made for taking different types of notes, offers a desktop program, evernote.com, that lets you save Web pages to a file and sync them with an iPad before you go offline.
Plus we're sure this news will soon be followed by the release of Google Conjecture, a desktop program that will see whether you can slide rubber bands off differently-shaped objects drawn on your screen.
But when you need to change something serious, uninstall a desktop program for instance, you get booted back into the same Control Panel I remember from Windows 2000 - it has barely changed.
WEATHERMATRIX members trade information through e-mail messaging and postings at a Web site (weathermatrix.net) that also provides a free desktop program that uses contributed data to provide weather alerts, radar images and current conditions.
When you click it, the corresponding site opens without the usual address bar and buttons -- in other words, it now works exactly like a regular desktop program.
It can be simply used as a standalone desktop program to analyze local data.
For those people, the Weather Channel's Web site (www.weather.com) offers a download able desktop program that updates the day's weather forecasts, barometric readings and radar maps.
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