Here's some cool things I have on my desktop using geektool, besides the examples in the lifehacker article. I either found these around on the net or figured them out myself.

To see lyrics of current itunes track:

osascript -e '''tell application "iTunes" to set currentLyrics to the lyrics of the current track'''

To see current homeland security threat level:

curl -s http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/getAdvisoryCondition | grep CONDITION

See internal IP address

ifconfig en1 | GREP inet

See how much freespace is left on your drives (replace drive names with the names of your drives). Save this as a script, and call it with sh /users/username/library/scripts/usage.sh

bdg=`df -h | grep "disk0s2" | awk '{print $4}'`
echo "Mac : $bdg"
bdf=`df -h | grep "Untitled" | awk '{print $4}'`
echo "Windoze : $bdf"

What other cool commands are you guys using?

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@ sam: Whoa! Didn´t expect to see my own iTunes-GeekTool-tip from Lifehacker featured over here at TUAW! Nice find ;-)

Besides that I´m using GeekTool and lynx (true geek) at work to display the current toner levels of ~15 printers (and yes, I´m in charge of replacing the toner), to display my system.log, ipfw.log, current temperature of my mac, todo.txt and some server´s status. Cool, or what?

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I use GeekTool along with a home-rolled Applescript app to put title, artist, album, length, and lyrics of the currenly playing song on my desktop. Over spring break, I'm going to work up another to show the album art.

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I use a couple of different scripts to show CPU, Memory, and Disk usage...

CPU (shows up to 20 processes and their CPU usage, only shows processes that are using the CPU):
echo "CPU Usage" && ps -arcx -o %cpu,command | awk ' { if (FNR

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Hmm, that's not what I posted...seems to cut out on the special characters. There is a topic over on the XRG forum with some cool GeekTool commands. Check the bottom of the topic for three commands to list top CPU and Memory processes, and disk usage. There are also some hints on getting an image toggle working based on shell script output.

http://forums.gauchosoft.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1096675648/15

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Anyone know why I can't get this command to work?

curl -s http://commuterlink.utah.gov/alerts/latest.asp | w3m -dump -T text/html

Works fine in terminal, but don't see any output with geektool. (Need to have w3m installed)

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I've been playing around with GeekTool the last few days and all I can say is that I'm in love. After scouring the net for scripts/commands I ended up with my current GeekTool Desktop Display.

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Link didn't go through :(

http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/10/ultimate-geektool-setup-pimp-your-desktop-part-2/

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