geektool

Fun tricks with Growl and GeekTool

This week’s mac techmail is Fun tricks with Growl and GeekTool which looks at a (probably rather unique) scenario of running an IRC client in a virtual machine (running Linux) and having alerts show up on the OS X desktop. The tip, while relatively specific to one function, should provide some ideas on cool things [...]

Get system display options with GeekTool for the Mac

Last week’s mac techmail was Get system display options with GeekTool for the Mac. GeekTool is one of my favourite tools for the mac. Kinda like Conky on Linux, but more flexible since you can have multiple windows all over the place doing various things (i.e. my GeekTool shows upcoming Hit List items, uptime/cpu/ram stats, [...]