People can download and contribute the “geeklet” files that GeekTool 3 now uses. It’s a great place if you are looking for some new scripts or if you want to share your cool new setup.

It works, as if, on my mac, displaying info od the current track, length and rating and the stream info if it’s an audio stream like an internet radio.

here it is and what it looks like (http://img12.yfrog.com/img12/8824/capturedcran20091006232.png):

tell application “System Events”
set powerCheck to ((application processes whose (name is equal to “iTunes”)) count)
if powerCheck = 0 then
return “”
end if
end tell
tell application “iTunes”
try
set playerstate to (get player state)
end try
if playerstate = paused then
return “”
end if
if playerstate = stopped then
return “”
end if

set trackID to the current track
set trackName to the name of trackID
set artistName to the artist of trackID
set albumName to the album of trackID
set songLength to the time of trackID
set myRating to round ((rating of current track) / 20)
if myRating is 1 then
set myRating to ” - ✭✩✩✩✩”
else if myRating is 2 then
set myRating to ” - ✭✭✩✩✩”
else if myRating is 3 then
set myRating to ” - ✭✭✭✩✩”
else if myRating is 4 then
set myRating to ” - ✭✭✭✭✩”
else if myRating is 5 then
set myRating to ” - ✭✭✭✭✭”
else
set myRating to ” - ✩✩✩✩✩”
end if

set theStream to the current stream title as text
set ISstream to the size of trackID as text
if theStream is not null then
if theStream is not “missing value” then
set totalData to ” ▶ ” & theStream & ” (” & trackName & “)” & myRating
else
if ISstream is not “missing value” then
set totalData to ” ▶ ” & trackName & ” / ” & artistName & ” / ” & albumName & ” - ” & songLength & myRating
else
set totalData to ” ▶ ” & trackName & myRating
end if
end if
else
if ISstream is not “missing value” then
set totalData to ” ▶ ” & trackName & ” / ” & artistName & ” / ” & albumName & ” - ” & songLength & myRating
else
set totalData to ” ▶ ” & trackName & myRating
end if
end if
return totalData
end tell

Forgive the plug, but I’ve included a clean, fast, easy to configure, implementation for iTunes artwork in OmniGrowl version 3.7.

(It requires GeekTool 3 and neither needs to poll iTunes for track changes nor refresh GeekTool unless the track changes.)

Included an iTunes GeekTool template for the new iTunes plugin that will display iTunes artwork and track info on the desktop with GeekTool 3 installed and some minimal configuration. (See Advanced Info.)
Since OmniGrowl handles everything, this is a much better solution for GeekTool users than anything currently available (just try it).

for str in DesignCapacity MaxCapacity CurrentCapacity;do ioreg -w0 -l|grep $str|/opt/local/bin/gawk -v var=$str ‘{print var ” = ” $NF}’;done

I think the calendar entries are not quite right. They gave me three identical months. Try:

cal $(date -v -1m ” %m %Y”); cal $(date ” %m %Y”); cal $(date -v 1m ” %m %Y”)

The only difference seems to be the sign in %m

my problem is that the script barks on the following line:

set ArtworkFromiTunes to FromiTunesFolder & “albumArt.pict” as file specification

it says it cannot convert from \”Mac:Users:fabian:Pictures:iTunes Artwork:From iTunes:albumArt.pict\” to type file specification.” number -1700 from “Mac:Users:fabian:Pictures:iTunes Artwork:From iTunes:albumArt.pict” to file specification

if i remove the “to file specifiction” the .pict file is updated but alas without the converted tiff so i cannot view it.

thanks

/opt/local/bin//mpc |head -n1

Which, like everything about mpd vs itunes, is much simpler ;>

Cheers, and thanks for the inspiring article!

Secondly, I was wondering if you could share the desktop image shown on your screenshot.
I really like it, but I don’t know where I could get it.
Could you tell me where you got it from, or upload it?
(I hope it’s available in 1900×1200 format)

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -I

which gives you either this:

commQuality: ##
rawQuality: ##
avgSignalLevel: -##
avgNoiseLevel: -##
linkStatus:
portType:
lastTxRate: ##
maxRate: ##
lastAssocStatus: #
BSSID: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
SSID: xxxxx
Security: WPA

or this:

Airport: Off

That’s a rather long path to type, so I created a symlink to the airport command in usr/sbin:

sudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/sbin/airport

This is the script I use for GeekTool:

#myvar1=`airport -I | grep ” SSID\|AirPort” | awk ‘{print $1, $2}’`
#myvar2=`airport -I | grep channel | awk ‘{print “Channel:”, $2″,”}’`
#myvar3=`airport -I | grep agrCtlRSSI | awk ‘{print “Signal:”, $2″,”}’ `
#myvar4=`ifconfig en1 | grep “inet ” | awk ‘{print “IP:”, $2}’`
#echo “$myvar1 $myvar2 $myvar3 $myvar4″

Which gives me:

SSID: linksys Channel: 1, Signal: -40, IP: 192.168.1.100

or:

AirPort: Off

As a note, the channel and signal commands are for Leopard. The channel command doesn’t work, and the signal one should grep avgSignalLevel instead of agrCtlRSSI. Also, the above should be saved to a shell script, which should then be called from GeekTool.