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here is the original i found on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18697966@N00/3044859097/in/set-72157608377333404/
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Many members here will either be displaying their cover art using CoverSutra or Bowtie. In addition, the members with a lot of text information on their desktops are using the Geektool preference pane. Sweet Geektool scripts can be found here!
I have just re-done my Background... decided to go a little bit bland...
Oh... and I have also reverted to Bowtie... as it allows you to show the cover art while you desktop icons are hidden...
Previously... when ever I took a photo.... I photo-shopped out the icons....
Oh.. and if anyone want's a wall like that... just open up photoshop.. and set the colour of your choice, and "Myriad Pro" as the font.... and the size as 25pt... (Can be bigger....)
And then type away... (If anyone want's one done by me... not that it requires any skill just pm me....)
Oh... and I have also reverted to Bowtie... as it allows you to show the cover art while you desktop icons are hidden...
Previously... when ever I took a photo.... I photo-shopped out the icons....
Oh.. and if anyone want's a wall like that... just open up photoshop.. and set the colour of your choice, and "Myriad Pro" as the font.... and the size as 25pt... (Can be bigger....)
And then type away... (If anyone want's one done by me... not that it requires any skill just pm me....)
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Would it be possible to share the wallpaper?
Ta'
Here you go, psd file.
http://b1.s3.p.quickshareit.com/files/nanoda272.psd
PowerBookRelic said:
Thank you!
I've uploaded 2 scripts for you. Place them in your home folder.
For mail, input this in geektool:
osascript /Users/YOURHOMEFOLDER/mail.scpt
For News:
Just edit the script if you want to change the rss feed. I'm using channel news asia.
Enter this in geektool once you are done:
sh /Users/YOURHOMEFOLDER/news.sh -2
where 2 depicts the # of news headline you want to display.
Finally for iCal, you will need to install iCalbuddy first from:
http://hasseg.org/icalBuddy/
Following which you enter this in geektool:
/usr/local/bin/icalBuddy -ec -, --excludeCals Weather -nc -eep notes,url eventsToday+1 | sed -e "s/*/-/" | sed -e "s/!/!!/"
where (--excludeCals) means to exclude the calendars you do not wish to display, in this case Weather. (eventsToday+1) means how many days of events you want to display, eventsToday for today, and eventsToday+1 for today and tomorrow, so on...
You can study more commands on icalbuddy's site
The link to download the scripts: http://b6.s3.p.quickshareit.com/files/news5a2a1.zip
I've spent quite an amount of time putting all these together. I hope you find this useful.
Sweet thanks dude!!! Works great,
Next question tho i have is where i can i find the notation for this script language. i mean if i want to have 2 things on one line and stuff like that id like to know the syntax of it?
Very much helpful. Thanks. However i couldn't get the ical thing to work
Here's my code
Code:
/usr/local/bin/icalBuddy -ec -, -nc -eep notes,url eventsToday+3 | sed -e "s/*/-/" | sed -e "s/!/!!/"I dont have any cals to exclude, so i removed the exclude code but i dont know if i did it well
Also did you photoshop your titles onto the wall paper i.e. 'Mail' 'News' & 'Upcoming Events'?
Finally how did you get your weather to display Celsius? mines only displays Fahrenheit and its disconcerting
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