Geeklets

New Yahoo! Weather Geeklet

brian — Sun, 13 May 2012 08:57:49 PDT

When I noticed that my geeklets used to retrieve and parse the weather icon images from Yahoo! weather were no longer working due to recent changes at yahoo.com, I had to update them which is what you'll find here. These are formatted for Washington DC so obviously you'll have to update the scripts with your country, state, city and numerical city code accordingly.

Another Tron Inspired Desktop

ltrainx — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:25:32 PDT

This is based on the first Tron Inspired Desktop - In fact, it uses the same Wallpaper by Rasmsus Neilsen and Nocturne program by Blacktree.

Installing

Download and Install Geektool.
Download and set your Wallpaper.
Download the Geeklets.
Double-click each Geeklet to open it with Geektool.
Reposition the Geeklets.
Change your code to suit (see below).
Download, Install and move Nocturne to startupitems.
Customise Nocturne (see below).
Quit Geektool.
Done.

Note: The Airport Transmit Rate and UL/DL Rates will disappear if you have WiFi turned off. Obviously you can use different Geeklets just as I have.

Customising your code

You may have to make some adjustments to the code depending on your system.

For the Temperature Geeklets to work:

Download, Install and Run Temperature Monitor.
Open Geektool, click on one of the temperature Geeklets.
Press the "..." button to the right of the "command" input to open the code in a separate window.
Change the values of FNR>=11 && FNR<=11 to suit (eg. 1 and 2 represent my CPU temps while 11 represents my Heatsink temp).
Change cut -c 5- to remove the first x characters of the returned temperature readout (in my example, 5 as it removes " SMC " at the start of the readout).
Repeat for other temperature Geeklets.
Done.

Note: Temperature Monitor does not have to be running for the Geeklets to work.

For the Airport Transmit Rate Geeklet to work:

Open Terminal.
Paste the following code sudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/sbin/airport.
Press Enter and enter your password.
Done.

If you don't know what the Airport Transmit Rate is.. it's the overall maximum speed that your network (computer to computer and internet) can operate at, and is usually limited by the networks router and your connection / proximity to it. 300MB/s seems to be the fastest.

To set the Current Weather Geeklet to your city:

Open Geektool.
Click on the Current Weather Geeklet.
Press the "..." button to the right of the "command" input to open the code in a separate window.
Change the number after "w=" in the code curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?w=12708958&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|C<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's///' -e 's/<\/description>//'
You can use any American Zip Code or just google City Weather Code to find a specific code.
Done.

Customising Nocturne

By default Nocturne when set to "Night" mode inverts all the colours of your screen and makes them monochrome. To set it up like I have mine:

Open Nocturne Preferences.
Switch to "Day" mode.
Unselect all checkboxes except "Invert menu bar" and "Dim when active".
Set "Dim when active" to about one quarter.
Done.

All Done!

Nature's Beach Floor Theme

Legion — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 05:59:04 PDT

So here is one of the first backgrounds I've set up. Very clean, clear and concise without too much excess information. I used Nocturne for the black menubar, by the way.

Dock icons and black dock courtesy of acticTransfuse: http://arctictransfuse.deviantart.com/art/Gill-Sans-Text-Dock-Icons-154466636 This includes a handy guide to set up your dock to look just like mine.

Red Ribbon courtesy of side-7: http://side-7.deviantart.com/art/Red-Ribbon-194590265

Itunes geeklet+ a link to the ribbon I used courtesy of Fen_Li: http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/music/itunesgeeklet-/

Different Red Ribbon colors can be found here: http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&global=1&q=red+ribbon+geektool#/d394hre

All the rest of the geeklets are easy to find and implement, so I don't really need to link them. The wave at the bottom was photoshopped out of the original image with a transparent background. You can find this image if you don't have photoshop right here: http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/modules/upload/attachments/beachwavesonly.jpg I did not make this image, for the record. The whole background is here: http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details/2803/nature'sbeachfloor.html

Enjoy!

FE 001 CALIFORNIA Desk

Jordi — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 11:49:34 PDT

Hi, screenshot of my desk, I used Photoshop to have hours back of the car. Bowtie for information about itunes.Nocturne to erase the menu bar. And of course Geektool to create this simply set ! What do you think about ?

Memory usage

klex — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:21:12 PDT

Call the attached script and then display /tmp/memusage.png for an overview of your memory usage. You need internet access to render the graph. The background is not black like in this picture but transparent.

Iron Man JARVIS inspired desktop

Guardian1030 — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:27:44 PDT

First, I take no credit for the geeklets, thank to all of you in the community for them. I do take credit for the wallpaper though, I made that in keynote. Because there are a lot of files for the system info circular graphics, I didn't add them into this upload. Kudos to all who wrote the various codes I used.

Full System/Hardware Info and Temperature sensors Fixed

hXm — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 03:24:05 PDT

Full System and Hardware info by hXm

Take the control of your OSX

Features

Show your hardware info.

Show the temperature of your sensors.

Show the current Uptime.

Show the CPU usage from user and system

Show the memory ram used and free, same as swap.

Auto detect your default interface and show the downstream&upstream stats.

Gets your external IP and keep it updated

Show your local IP

Show the HD usage and total size.

What's new

It may fail when the temperature sensors are not loaded successfully. It should be work now. Or least not fail

Download

You can download this script here

Once you have installed the script, you don't need it anymore unless you want uninstall it If you want to see the code before than execute the script, go to Secondary click->Show content information->Contents->Scripts and open the .scpt files with AppleScript Editor.

Other scripts

You can also get my forecast script in screenshot clicking in this [internal link] (http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/weather/weather-forecast-information-from-google-weather/)

Please post or email me if you find bugs or have any question, so we can get a definitive SysInfo script.

If you liked this, please rate!

Chrome StatBar

sgtweaver — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 18:30:12 PDT

I think this one if about done. Added lots of accents. I also included an "under the hood" picture so you can see all of the elements. Enjoy!

Battery Percentage (Color changing)

homework — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:36:23 PDT

Outputs your battery percentage, with colors

Just a simple script, that has been expanded on.

Make sure to use the font below for the exact output.

Font used: BebasNeue - pt 48

Modes:

AC Adapter Connected: Displays green text
No Adapter Connected: Displays default text
Battery running low (20%): Displays red text
Fully charged: Displays "Charged"

As simple as that. You can expand on it, with images, etc.

Dark Earth

gr4z — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:23:49 PDT

Here is my desktop. Collection of the standard times, yahoo weather (now its working again!), icallbuddy for the diary and todos.

Dynamite Desktop

sgtweaver — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:20:24 PDT

Hello all On this one, I tried to create a bar that would not hog all of the screen but still have a lot of info in it. I used all of the elements from my previous submission but changed a few for look/appearance. I hope you enjoy!

Hidden in plain sight

kram — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:29:27 PDT

Many Many Thanks to those who shared these great scripts. The background is a 27 inch iMac, though this computer is a Mac Mini. The image can be found here http://www.ifixit.com/blog/2009/10/23/27-imac-wallpaper/

Stock News from Google

klex — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:52:38 PDT

Shows actual stock news for a given Company. Like in the screenshot. You have to install the xmlstarlet toolkit before: http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Development/Editors/XMLStarlet.shtml

Then run the script as "google_stocknews.sh <SYMBOL>" - SYMBOL like AAPL or GOOG

#!/bin/bash

SYMBOL=$1
URL="http://www.google.com/finance/company_news?q=NASDAQ:$SYMBOL&output=rss"

curl -s "$URL" | /usr/local/bin/xml sel -t -m "/rss/channel/item" -v "description" | sed -e 's/</</g; s/>/>/g; s/&/\&/g' | sed -e 's/'/'\''/g; s/<[^>]*>//g' | grep -A1 . | grep -v "^--$" | head -24 | awk 'BEGIN { RS = "" ; FS = "\n" } {print "\\e[1m" $1 "\\e[0m"; print " " $2; print "    " $3; print ""}' | fmt | sed -e 's/\\e/'`echo -e "\033"`'/g'

List tasks from Wunderlist

klex — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:48:07 PDT

Shows a list of open Tasks from your Wunderlist tasklist.

UPDATE: I changed the script a little bit, now you can pass the name of the list as the first parameter: wunderlist.sh <LISTNAME>

#!/bin/bash

LIST=$1;
WUNDERLISTDB="$HOME/Library/Wunderlist/wunderlist.db"

sqlite3 -list $WUNDERLISTDB "select '● '||tasks.name from tasks,lists where tasks.list_id=lists.id and lists.name='$LIST' and done_date=0 and tasks.deleted=0 and lists.deleted=0 order by tasks.position;"

My new Geeked out Desktop

abouthillier — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:36:52 PDT

I used a bunch of different geeklets I found on here and modified them a bit for my own liking. The Date and Time should be straight forward. I used the "Circle Volume Indicator" on here for volume, and the iTunes song meter down the bottom. I changed some things around in the code and made it longer. I also took the battery meter (same code as the iTunes meter) and used "_____\n\c" rather than" | \c" to make it vertical instead of horizontal.

Battery Meter: ioreg=ioreg -w0 -l | grep "ExternalConnected\|CurrentCapacity\|MaxCapacity" | awk '{print $5}' acadapt=echo $ioreg | awk '{print $1}' maxpower=echo $ioreg | awk '{print $2}' curpower=echo $ioreg | awk '{print $3}' batpercent=echo "scale=2;$cur_power / $max_power" | bc bat_percent=echo "$bat_percent * 100" | bc | sed 's/\.00//'

declare -i a=5 if [ $ac_adapt == "Yes" ] then echo "\c" else echo "\c" fi

while [ $a -lt $batpercent ] do echo "_____\n\c" a=expr $a + 5 done echo "\033[1;31m_____\n\033[0m\c" while [ $a -lt 100 ] do echo "\033[1;31m_____\n\033[0m\c" a=expr $a + 5 done echo "\n" unset batpercent unset a

I'm trying to make the iTunes Player switch if Spotify is playing instead and it works with the meter, just not the player. It would also be nice to have it do the same with YouTube because I listen to a lot of my music on there.

MY Desk

Slev — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:21:46 PDT

Wall paper in desc

All credit to http://www.seventhstreetstudio.com/

DISCLAIMER: I DIDNT MAKE THIS SEVENTH STREET STUDIO DID!

Dynamic: Earth

jordan443 — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:27:09 PDT

This is my current desktop theme. It has pretty useful widgets like weather, time date, clock, processes, system information, keyboard and mouse battery, and free space. The links for most of the geeklets and the backgrounds are included. The geeklets that aren't included are pretty much common sense. For icons, I used the Flurry icon set which can be found on Google. Some of the geeklets have accidentally been pushed to the front but that can be fixed in Properties.

Fuzzy Clock - Rough time in words

angeldodger — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:56:35 PDT

Adapted from another 'fuzzy clock' by WeakCity, this one only changes at 5 minute intervals. My first script. Will try to re-write in Apple Script soon to simplify.

Facebook Notifier

vanbug — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:53:32 PDT

Hola!

I was working on a python script to make facebook notifier and its finally done. Nothing fancy just instant updates of notifications without opening the browser. I am including the facefeed.py script, just grab your notification rss feed from your Facebook account and edit the file and put it there. Also, change the location of facefeed.py in the facefeed.glet so that it runs it. Current refresh time is 60 secs, decrease it if your famous and vice versa. You can also change how many feeds to display at once, just change the range in the python script.

Please let me know any comments, criticism and love.

Thanks

Sukhi

P.S. Extension py is not allowed so I changed it to .txt, just change it to .py.

I used the weather geeklet from here

585v7 ADSL2+ broadband modem performance indicator

bioneural — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 10:26:22 PDT

Want to know your download and upload speed if you have a BeBox/ O2 Wireless Box II/ SpeedTouch 585v7 modem?

Usage 1. Save the script as bb.php and note the path e.g. ~/Documents/GeekTool/bb.php 2. Change the IP address in curlinit to that of your modem if required 3. Substitute your username and password in curlsetopt 4. Save your edits 5. Create a new Shell in GeekTool and enter the command 'php ~/Documents/GeekTool/bb.php' 6. Set an appropriate refresh rate e.g. 5s

Tested using firmware 8.2.7.7 on O2 Home Broadband (UK) with the modem in bridge mode connected to a 2nd generation Time Capsule WAN port, using GeekTool 3.0.1 under OS X 10.7.3

Tip: Use the OS X Character Viewer to replace 'Up/Down' text with Unicode characters or icons