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Great Siri search commands

by Erica Sadun (Oct 23rd, 2011)

TUAW reader Harris Rydal sent in a bunch of terrific suggestions for using Siri's built-in search features without having to do a lot of typing. These are exceptionally useful ways of taking advantage of Siri-to-Safari tasking. Sports scores - Look up the current score for in-progress games and ...

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 ...