Negative Space: GeekTool
- Apple Mail on the Desktop with GeekTool
- Here’s a simple AppleScript to use with GeekTool to put your inbox on the Desktop.
- Bluetooth battery early warning system
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Use GeekTool, or crontab or launchd and notifications, to know when your bluetooth batteries need recharging.
- Command-line mail on OS X: re-alpine and Geektool
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If you do a lot of automated command-line scripts, you probably also generate a lot of mail to /var/mail. OS X only has the mail program built-in, and its GUI mail client hasn’t been able to add simple mail accounts since about OS X 10.2. Alpine can get you a better mail client, and Geektool can provide better notices.
- GeekTool, Perl, and ANSI color codes
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GeekTool is a great way to display the results of little scripts on your desktop. Using ANSI color codes can make those scripts even more useful. You can also change the status of the status button from “success” to “failure” depending on your script’s exit code.
- GeekTool, TaskPaper, and XML
- A script to convert a TaskPaper file to XML so as to filter it for specific tags and display the results on the Desktop.
- icalBuddy and eventsFrom/to
- Ali Rantakari’s icalBuddy has an error in the documentation for the “eventsFrom/to” command-line option. Rather than “tomorrow at time” use “time tomorrow”.
- Put a relative clock on your Desktop with GeekTool
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There are a lot of desktop clocks that show the absolute time. But sometimes you just want to know if the time is today, or yesterday, or two days ago. Here’s how to do it with Python and GeekTool.
- Using Term::ANSIColor with GeekTool
- Rather than using the raw codes directly, Perl (at least on OS X) comes with Term::ANSIColor built in.
