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GeekTool for Mac

Tim: "Hey I heard you got a Mac. That's cool."
Eric: "Yeah, I've wanted one for a long time and it's been a lot of fun setting up."
Tim: "I prefer Ubuntu. I've been having a blast modifying it. I have the date and time integrated with the desktop."
Eric: "Yeah me too."
Tim: "WHA?!"

Yep.

http://i31.photobucket.com/albums/c3...9at73913PM.png

GeekTool (don't DL v. 3.0, it's still buggy)
To save you some time, the terminal codes for time, day, month and date (respectively) are the following:

Code:

date "+%I:%M:%S %p"

date "+%A"

date "+%B"

date "+%d"

The weather is slightly more complicated. Visit yahoo weather, locate the URL, and locate your specific city code:

Code:

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=YOURCITYCODE&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/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//'

I've been having a blast screwing around with this thing.

While that sort of thing is impressive and cool looking... I practically never see my desktop image. At least 90% of my screen is covered with application windows. Especially the center part.

Oh, you can put it anywhere, I just put mine there to coincide with the wallpaper.

That's pretty cool, Will.
I like dynamic desktops, that can change with time/weather/what have you. I do agree with Redlemon that most of the time, I wouldn't be seeing it. But, for the design alone, and satisfaction of having a welcoming, informative BG every time I boot up, I'd totally do this.