Mac Users of NSG

you guys how do i make my mac cool i hate mine and I'm debating uploading all of my pictures to an online photo album then deleting everything on my computer to start over

/end douchey question
 
i don't know what to do once i delete everything though. I'm looking for some good programs to download and i'm going to try and keep everything pretty lightweight.
 
So sick thanks mrstskier I honestly can't believe I figured it out..

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Get an external drive.... then copy your MAC HD on to it. so you can really re start then just bring back what u wantlike ur apps.
ur photos. all the same way left em.

search like clone HD and shit. there are people who do this for a living and they are all over the internet.
 
i like how you changed the color of some of the icons. ive changed some icons myself, but im too lazy to actually open up photoshop and change the colour. desktop pic goes with the rest of what you have going also
 
Where did u get ur menu bar and how did u change ur MAC HD icon color?

Oh and i found an app that hides your Menu (at the top) like your dock, its prety cool.
http://www.cynosurex.com/Forums/DisplayComments.php?file=Mac%20OS/MagicMenu_3.0
Just DL it and then open the folder and run. "MagicMenu On.app" if you want to turn it off run "MagicMenu Off.app"
It works when you launch a new app (only for that app) or when you log out and back in again.

I also found spaces to put in your dock. apps called Super Docker http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/27054/superdocker

another App hides everything on ur desktop called camoflague http://www.download.cnet.com/Camouflage/3000-2072_4-126051.html

 
you know OSX is built on top of a unix kernel, right? aka you have full shell access? what more do you need...?
 
I honestly still cant remember what I used to change my menu bar. To murder out your icons I used Candybar. It's relatively easy to use and makes all your icons look really sick
 
ok im kinda killing my thread. but this is what i have. i just have no idea how to get the cool weather thing.
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i just need a better menu bar and the weather pic.
Dope.
thx for all of your help guys.
 
worked on this tonight but will finish some other time, i had some trouble with the weather stuff (stuff in text thing in bottom right corner) but ill hopefully be able to figure it out next time when im not rushing to get back to homework
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i like to be original but if anyone wants me to send them the wallpaper lemme know my private message
 
^That looks really sick, I like how you took out the Axis and whatever bdog was saying to make it your own.

I'll send you the script for the weather if you want (pm me). I have no experience coding or anything but I figured it out.
 
sick, i got this all down except for the image of the weather (clouds, sun, rain, etc.)

more details here would be great, thanks so much
 
the image seems to be hit or miss, i couldnt get it when I was setting it up, went to dinner, came back and it was working
 
if you cant figure out how to do the weather image, this is what i did.

For Forecast picture:You will need 2 scripts, one in a Shell and one in an image1. In the Shell you put:curl --silent "http://ca.weather.yahoo.com/canada/ontario/toronto-4118/" | grep "forecast-icon" | sed "s/.*background\:url(\'\(.*\)\')\;\ _background.*/\1/" | xargs curl --silent -o /tmp/weather.png\Replace the toronto URL with the city of your choice. just go on yahoo weather and search ur city.2. in the Image you put file:///tmp/weather.pngAnd the image will pop up. dont forget to change the refresh rate from 0 to.... 1? 100? whatever.

If you still cant get it, try with my exact scripts to make sure ur not getting the URLs wrong.
but its a hit n miss. if it does not work, try again the next day.

More Scripts i found.
More Scripts:
curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=CAXX0504&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|C
//' -e 's///' -e 's///' -e 's/
//' -e 's///' -e 's///'
curl --silent "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=CAXX0504&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|[A-Z]
//' -e 's///' -e 's///' -e 's/
//' -e 's///' -e 's///' -e 's/, [0-9]* [A-Z]//' | tail -n1
curl "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=CAXX0504&u=c" | grep -e "Forecast:" -A 2 | tail -n 2 | sed -e 's/
//' -e 's/
//' | sed "s/\(.*\)\.\ \(.*\)/\1\?\2/" | tr "?" "\n" | sed "s/Hi\:\ \(.*\)\ Lo\:\ \(.*\)/\?Hi\: \1\ Lo\:\ \2/" | sed "s/\?\(.*\)/\\1/"

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=CAXX0504&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|[A-Z]
//' -e 's///' -e 's///' -e 's/
//' -e 's/[A-Z a-z]*, //' -e 's/\(.*\) F/\1 °F/' -e 's/\(.*\) C/\1 °C/' | sed 's/ //' | tail -n1
Try them all, last one is the 2 day forcast.

Date and time
Type
Date +%B
and you can change the B to anything on ur keyboard and get different results. so you can get the clock, the date, the month, the hour, the second, the AM/PM the year etc just try them all XCVBNM are the bigger ones i think.

And dont forget to change your refresh rate once you make a shell.

 
ive found that if something in your shells dont show up you can make it show up by hitting enter on the script in the properties again
 
oh sorry youre talking about an image. but same thing with the image, just open the properties with geektool and click on the image box and it should refresh. changing your refresh properties might help too
 
I've had my black macbook for a little over two years now, and it has started freezing all the time, and random programs like ical freeze up the computer and won't start. Has anyone else had these problems?
 
So I'm trying to set up the Itunes thing, and I'm really just confusing myself. Anyone care to help me out?
 
the script you get you have to put into the application in your utilities folder called applescript editor. you can do certain things to only one line of the script you put in there, but before you touch anything i would suggest watching this video because she will explain everything. after you watch the video, read the description under the video and she will give you the script and in the file it will also have a readme that says how to put the script into the shell.
this is the video:

hipefully that embed works, but if not heres the youtube link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2e8VRZvRCY&feature=related

she also has 3 other videos about the basics of geektool if you are having trouble with figuring that stuff out
 
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