Probably for this one I would want to set it to update every second so it now acts like a normal clock there on the background of my Desktop. Remember I said it should update every three seconds so you can see it is doing that. Now if I click off you can see that it just stays there in the background on the Desktop. So I can put a clock on my Desktop that easily. You can see it displays the date there as it would return from a terminal command but in addition I can now customize that by changing the font and color. Or I can use something like all sorts of different things to display the current date. I can do something like top which will display information about things that are running on my Mac and I can have it update every three seconds. Probably the most ultra geeky thing that you can do is to use a shell script. It is really there on the Desktop in the background. It will be updated but I can't change it or affect it. Again if I am not in Geek Tool you can see it is just static information on the Desktop. So this could be something here where you can have logs or some other information that appears and it changes. Let me get my Apache firewall log if I want to be really geeky and it will put that information there on the Desktop and as that file changes it will be updated. So like I can for instance use a log file here. This text I can put anywhere I want and I can resize the window. So this will put some text here on the Desktop. In addition you can drag file information. Weather is an obvious one but you can think of probably other images that are out there where there is a static URL but the actual image there changes like say maybe a webcam or something. So everyday I can look and see the new weather information. But the cool thing is that it will update as the image changes. I can't drag it again until I select Geek Tool again and then I can drag it. If I click out of Geek Tool and I'm just in the Finder now I can see that it is just there on the background. What will happen is I can put that here and I can drag it and enlarge it. I'm going to paste in an URL of a weather satellite image that is updated from the US government. What is more interesting is to put a URL. Now that image can be something locally like a local image that you've got but that doesn't really give you any functionality. Then under Properties here, I can set Properties of that image. It is going to create this little space here on the Desktop that I can move around anywhere that I want. For instance let's try dragging an image out. Now you drag and drop things out of here onto your Desktop. So here is what Geek Tool looks like when you run it. Just do a quick search for it and it will come right up. You can get Geek Tool in the Mac App Store. Things that you can see on your Desktop that are kind of there in the background. Geek Tool is an interesting way for you to extend your Desktop by adding little widgets to it. On today's episode let's take a look at Geek Tool. Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. It can be changed to whatever you want, though.Check out MacMost Now 891: Customizing Your Desktop With GeekTool at YouTube for closed captioning and more options. I left the Refresh setting at 10, and so GeekTool updates my Kb/sec transfer rates every 10 seconds.
On the Command tab, set the command to something like this: sh /path/to/inout.sh, replacing /path/to/ with the path to the folder containing the inout.sh file. Kbout=`echo "scale=2 $subout/1024 " | bc`Īfter saving your file, switch to GeekTool, click the New Entry button, give it a name ( Net Activity), and set the pop-up on the right to Shell. # find the difference between bytes in and out during that one second Myvar1=`netstat -ib | grep -e "en1" -m 1 | awk ''` # bytes out again # get the current number of bytes in and bytes out
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