Remember I said it should update every three seconds so you can see it is doing that. Now if I click off you can see that it just stays there in the background on the Desktop. So I can put a clock on my Desktop that easily. You can see it displays the date there as it would return from a terminal command but in addition I can now customize that by changing the font and color. Or I can use something like all sorts of different things to display the current date. I can do something like top which will display information about things that are running on my Mac and I can have it update every three seconds. Probably the most ultra geeky thing that you can do is to use a shell script. It is really there on the Desktop in the background. It will be updated but I can't change it or affect it. Again if I am not in Geek Tool you can see it is just static information on the Desktop. So this could be something here where you can have logs or some other information that appears and it changes. Let me get my Apache firewall log if I want to be really geeky and it will put that information there on the Desktop and as that file changes it will be updated. So like I can for instance use a log file here. This text I can put anywhere I want and I can resize the window. So this will put some text here on the Desktop. In addition you can drag file information. Weather is an obvious one but you can think of probably other images that are out there where there is a static URL but the actual image there changes like say maybe a webcam or something. So everyday I can look and see the new weather information.
But the cool thing is that it will update as the image changes. I can't drag it again until I select Geek Tool again and then I can drag it. If I click out of Geek Tool and I'm just in the Finder now I can see that it is just there on the background. What will happen is I can put that here and I can drag it and enlarge it. I'm going to paste in an URL of a weather satellite image that is updated from the US government. What is more interesting is to put a URL. Now that image can be something locally like a local image that you've got but that doesn't really give you any functionality. Then under Properties here, I can set Properties of that image. It is going to create this little space here on the Desktop that I can move around anywhere that I want. For instance let's try dragging an image out. Now you drag and drop things out of here onto your Desktop. So here is what Geek Tool looks like when you run it. Just do a quick search for it and it will come right up. You can get Geek Tool in the Mac App Store. Things that you can see on your Desktop that are kind of there in the background. Geek Tool is an interesting way for you to extend your Desktop by adding little widgets to it. On today's episode let's take a look at Geek Tool. Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. While it's not for the brand-new Mac user, or for the faint of heart, GeekTool is good to see if you're interested in learning more about the underpinnings of your Mac.Check out MacMost Now 891: Customizing Your Desktop With GeekTool at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. You can use GeekTool to monitor everything from time and date wherever you want to pulling your RSS feed and displaying the album cover of your current iTunes track.
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This piece from Lifehacker will help get you started and Mac OS X Tips has a comprehensive list of geeklets. There's a lot of scripts to choose from out there. Drag one of the plug-ins to the desktop, then customize it for your personal use. Image: Originally developed to display monitoring graphs, it's also used for image customization.Īs the product description warns, this isn't for general Mac users, but those who are comfortable with Unix and shell commands.Shell: This displays the output of any Unix shell command and is the root of a lot of the customizations in the program.It's mostly used to monitor system or application activity. File: It displays live content from any file.These are referred to as geeklets and can be used as follows: It allows users to display various information on their desktops via three plug-ins: file, shell and image. Unlike the GeekTool of yore, the MAS version is not a preference pane, but a separate app. It's been around for years, and we've featured it a couple of times on TUAW, but the MAS release allows it to reach a new audience.
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GeekTool was released as a free download on the Mac App Store a few weeks ago, and it's remained at the top of the download chart since.
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