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Daily Mac App: GeekTool

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 14th, 2011)

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. 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. Unlike the GeekTool of ...

Ask TUAW Video Edition: Geeking on GeekTool

by Justin Esgar (May 10th, 2011)

It's Tuesday, which means it's time for another edition of Ask TUAW video! On the heels of our AppleScript episode, we are going to talk today about GeekTool. GeekTool is a great way to have information displayed on your desktop, without it being too intrusive. First thing, you need to download ...

iPad as desktop status monitor

by Brett Terpstra (May 25th, 2010)

Imagine this: you put your iPad into its dock next to your desktop (or laptop), and it transforms into a heads-up display of all the important stats from your machine. Maybe add some news and weather, and your "Today" list from your favorite to-do app. I'm sure there are a good number of people who ...

Tweets (and whatever else you want) on the desktop with GeekTool

by Mike Schramm (Mar 10th, 2009)

Mat posted a while back about the magic of GeekTool -- it's an app that allows you to run Unix scripts and show logs in a good-looking pane right there on your desktop. Mac OS X Tips recently did a post about how to put your iCal events up there using a script called iCalBuddy, but industrious ...

GTD with the Mac and a cool custom setup

by Dave Caolo (Mar 7th, 2008)

Leo Babauta at Zen Habits has posted a nice overview of Getting Things Done on the Mac, including many of the applications you'd expect, like iGTD Kinkless GTD OmniFocus Things Midnight Inbox We've written about all of these applications before. What's interesting is the custom solution ...

Ask TUAW: Bluetooth, 5.1 Audio, VNC, Adium with QS, and more

by Mat Lu (Apr 4th, 2007)

This week's Ask TUAW takes us into questions about Bluetooth File Exchange, 5.1 audio, VNC, getting Adium and Quicksilver working together, EVDO, automated file management based on label color, and more. As always, please leave your own comments, and ask more questions for next week either in the ...

GeekTool: Run UNIX Commands on the Desktop

by Mat Lu (Mar 15th, 2007)

Today I ran across this excellent tutorial on lifehacker about using GeekTool, and I was amazed to discover we haven't mentioned it here at TUAW. GeekTool is a cool little preference pane which allows you to run terminal commands, show logs, or even display pictures (e.g. from the net) directly on ...