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My first foray into the world of geektool, kept it simple:
I used the Disk Capacity Meter Geeklet from here for the images, and the itunesgeeklet for itunes.
Battery charge
CPU average over the last minute with temperature in the middle
Fan Speed
Memory Usage
Storage on my boot drive (Will add my other drive underneath when I get it back in)
Itunes currently playing (disappears on quit)
I was thinking of adding some reminders, but I can't think of an uncluttered way to do it, and it doesn't help that my use of the reminders app is a bit all over the place.
Might work on an Alfred countdown timer in a bit.
I used the Disk Capacity Meter Geeklet from here for the images, and the itunesgeeklet for itunes.
Battery charge
CPU average over the last minute with temperature in the middle
Fan Speed
Memory Usage
Storage on my boot drive (Will add my other drive underneath when I get it back in)
Itunes currently playing (disappears on quit)
I was thinking of adding some reminders, but I can't think of an uncluttered way to do it, and it doesn't help that my use of the reminders app is a bit all over the place.
Might work on an Alfred countdown timer in a bit.
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I know this background has been used before by others, but I've added a bit to it - a post-it note for my Reminders, a digital picture frame for my weather radar image (it's a slideshow of radar images) and a corkboard for any files I have on my desktop.
As far as the corkboard goes, I've added thumbtacks to it and set them to "always on top" so that the tacks will actually be covering the files. The only problem is that now the tacks show up over top of any windows I have open as well - anyone know if there's a way around this?
yeti
As far as the corkboard goes, I've added thumbtacks to it and set them to "always on top" so that the tacks will actually be covering the files. The only problem is that now the tacks show up over top of any windows I have open as well - anyone know if there's a way around this?
yeti
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I'm assuming when you say shell you mean the image. When I right click on it, my only options are move forward, move backward, bring to front, or send to back. None of them do anything while I have "keep on top" checked though. If I uncheck "keep on top", nothing I do puts the image over top of the file on the desktop.
yeti
yeti
I'm wondering if the weather image is working for anyone now. It was working for me, but I can't get it to show up anymore. I set this up about a week ago and since then Yahoo Weather has changed.
Here's my first attempt with geektoolPretty simple, but I like how it turned out.
love simplicity
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Mine is working, what happens when you force refresh?
Is the weather data working or just the image not updating?
The weather is updating, the image is actually gone. I tried dropping a png file in tmp, but no dice.
I wish I knew AppleScript, because I want this!
I don't even know how to get the text in the circle..then I don't know how to use that circle for the other scripts..
Anybody have some good links on how to figure this stuff out?
Got 2 of the neon circle geeklets going so far..Disk Usage Meter in the middle and Battry Charge Meter on the right. Still have work to do to get some more of them set up, but I like it so far..
Mine was fine and updating over the weekend, but nothing now and nothing yesterday.
This script seems to be working:
You can call the png file in tmp anything you want. Also, remember that you want to have a yahoo weather address that looks like this:
http://weather.yahoo.com/united-states/new-york/new-york-2459115/
Not this: http://weather.yahoo.com
No dice, just tried your script using New York's address and it didn't do anything.
It looks like Yahoo has completely redone their weather page. Their weather icons are actually pretty crappy looking now, I loved their previous ones. I wonder if there is a better source.
yeti
PS Should we be moving this to a new thread maybe? We're kind of cluttering up the Desktop thread.
It looks like Yahoo has completely redone their weather page. Their weather icons are actually pretty crappy looking now, I loved their previous ones. I wonder if there is a better source.
yeti
PS Should we be moving this to a new thread maybe? We're kind of cluttering up the Desktop thread.
There used to be a thread with Geektool scripts. Is this not the equivalent, kind of?
A better fix may be to use a different service. The weather channel has icons too. I used this script:
curl --silent "http://www.weather.com/weather/right-now/ZIPCODE" | grep -E -o 'http://s.imwx.com/v.20120328.084208//img/wxicon/120/.*png' | head -1 | xargs curl -o /tmp/weather.png
Taken from this posthttps://forums.macrumors.com/posts/15540918/
However, you need to make a slight adjustment to the image URL. To find the image url, just have a look at the page source.
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