Mac Users of NSG

here is what I'm rocking these days

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I decided to geek out my desktop a little more yesterday. Thanks Gator. for the color inspiration, it really does work well with the background image. I was debating a rusty orange as well, but liked this better.

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I alo finally got around to organizing my dock by adding spacers. To do that, open Terminal( Applications>Utilities) . To put a spacer on the Applications side of the dock, copy the following into a single terminal line:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type=“spacer-tile”;}’

Press enter, then in the next line type "killall Dock"

then type "exit" to close the process. If you want multiple spacers, just copy the first line of code multiple times before typing killall Dock. What the killall command does is closes and reopens the dock without making you logout and back in— I too was a bit concerned about killing the dock at first.

To add a spacer on the documents side of the dock, follow the same process, but with the following:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type=“spacer-tile”;}’

The spacers can be dragged around like the other icons on your dock, and disappear if you drag them off the dock.

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I love weathergeek so much

I couldn't get the headline to feed, because I couldn't find an RSS anywhere for the website. I did, however, update my desktop to include a Dopplar radar image that updates every 3 minutes on my desktop:

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Just make an "Image" on your desktop as you did when you put your home hill's webcam on screen in the geektool preferences, and put "http://tahoeloco.intelliweather.net/imagery/TahoeLoco/rad_ca_sacramento_640x480.jpg" in the URL. You can do this for any of the radars and photos on the tahoeloco website, since they all update at the same URL and overwrite old files instead of making new URLs. Unfortunately, the animated .gifs don't animate on your desktop through geektool, or I'd have a dopplar .gif.
 
Hey boys, i have found a way to put your facebook notifications on your desktop.
but you need to run automator, and thats not cool with me.

heres a script that gets the notifications without automator.

$ curl "http://www.facebook.com/feeds/notifications.php?id=XXXX&viewer=XXXXX&key=YYYYYY&format=rss20" -A "Mozilla/4.0" | grep 'title' | egrep '(commented|your Wall)' | sed -e 's/\//' -e 's/\//' -e "s/\&apos\;/'/" -e 's/ //' | head -n 4
The XXXX and YYYY is my personal facebook IDs n shit. dont want u to have my notifications XD

But it doesnt seem to work. anyone know any script like this? maybe its Mozilla/4.0 and i use chrome/safari i duno. but its not working... halp.

if u do want to use automator
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=628023&page=15

Then scroll down to the facebook one (or search "facebook")

good luck.

post scripts that work (without automator) thx +++K indeed.

 
Your time looks something like this "8:15" if you want it to be like "Eight Fifteen" heres another cool script, just toss it in a shell, rly easy

#!/bin/bash# converts exact time to fuzzy formatexport exact_time=$(date '+%I:%M')export exact_hour=$(echo $exact_time | cut -c 1,2)export exact_minute=$(echo $exact_time | cut -c 4,5)case $exact_hour in 01) export fuzzy_hour='One';; 02) export fuzzy_hour='Two';; 03) export fuzzy_hour='Three';; 04) export fuzzy_hour='Four';; 05) export fuzzy_hour='Five';; 06) export fuzzy_hour='Six';; 07) export fuzzy_hour='Seven';; 08) export fuzzy_hour='Eight';; 09) export fuzzy_hour='Nine';; 10) export fuzzy_hour='Ten';; 11) export fuzzy_hour='Eleven';; 12) export fuzzy_hour='Twelve';;esaccase $exact_minute in 00) export fuzzy_minute='o-clock';; 01) export fuzzy_minute='o-one';; 02) export fuzzy_minute='o-two';; 03) export fuzzy_minute='o-three';; 04) export fuzzy_minute='o-four';; 05) export fuzzy_minute='o-five';; 06) export fuzzy_minute='o-six';; 07) export fuzzy_minute='o-seven';; 08) export fuzzy_minute='o-eight';; 09) export fuzzy_minute='o-nine';; 10) export fuzzy_minute='ten';; 11) export fuzzy_minute='eleven';; 12) export fuzzy_minute='twelve';; 13) export fuzzy_minute='thirteen';; 14) export fuzzy_minute='fourteen';; 15) export fuzzy_minute='fifteen';; 16) export fuzzy_minute='sixteen';; 17) export fuzzy_minute='seventeen';; 18) export fuzzy_minute='eighteen';; 19) export fuzzy_minute='nineteen';; 20) export fuzzy_minute='twenty';; 21) export fuzzy_minute='twenty-one';; 22) export fuzzy_minute='twenty-two';; 23) export fuzzy_minute='twenty-three';; 24) export fuzzy_minute='twenty-four';; 25) export fuzzy_minute='twenty-five';; 26) export fuzzy_minute='twenty-six';; 27) export fuzzy_minute='twenty-seven';; 28) export fuzzy_minute='twenty-eight';; 29) export fuzzy_minute='twenty-nine';; 30) export fuzzy_minute='thirty';; 31) export fuzzy_minute='thirty-one';; 32) export fuzzy_minute='thirty-two';; 33) export fuzzy_minute='thirty-three';; 34) export fuzzy_minute='thirty-four';; 35) export fuzzy_minute='thirty-five';; 36) export fuzzy_minute='thirty-six';; 37) export fuzzy_minute='thirty-seven';; 38) export fuzzy_minute='thirty-seven';; 39) export fuzzy_minute='thirty-one';; 40) export fuzzy_minute='forty';; 41) export fuzzy_minute='forty-one';; 42) export fuzzy_minute='forty-two';; 43) export fuzzy_minute='forty-three';; 44) export fuzzy_minute='forty-four';; 45) export fuzzy_minute='forty-five';; 46) export fuzzy_minute='forty-six';; 47) export fuzzy_minute='forty-seven';; 48) export fuzzy_minute='forty-eight';; 49) export fuzzy_minute='forty-nine';; 50) export fuzzy_minute='fifty';; 51) export fuzzy_minute='fifty-one';; 52) export fuzzy_minute='fifty-two';; 53) export fuzzy_minute='fifty-three';; 54) export fuzzy_minute='fifty-four';; 55) export fuzzy_minute='fifty-five';; 56) export fuzzy_minute='fifty-six';; 57) export fuzzy_minute='fifty-seven';; 58) export fuzzy_minute='fifty-eight';; 59) export fuzzy_minute='fifty-nine';;esacexport fuzzy_time="$fuzzy_hour $fuzzy_minute"echo $fuzzy_timeexit 0# Local variables:# Coding: utf-8 # End:
 
This post is a bump and a thank you for being more useful than youtube and google and all that. Stoked as hell on my new desktop.
 
np

if anyone cant figure out what im saying on this thread, it was a learning process for me. so if you dont want to go through the trouble ill be glad to help you personally, pm me.

btw geektool i think has been taking up about 10% of my cpu (i have it geeked upp) if anyone wants to know how much it uses.

and im gunna bump this for xmas, if anyone wants to deck out their desktop for the holidays.
 
For those interested, this uses about 2-3% of my intel Core i7 processor (2.66ghz) updating time and music every second, everything else on the 5 minute interval

/brag
 
Adium is kicking my ass. How can i get it to show the status of my facebook friends? They are all gray bubbles and the people who are on aren't green until they message me. :[

Reference:

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+k
 
i feel like the desktop on my macbook is never showing so this would all be pointless. like there is always a window open, i don't even remember what my desktop is
 
I like your style.

This thread has inspired me to do some research and I found a Windows alternative called Samurize. Here is my first work. I want to figure out how to make those bars in the left more bubbly, but I'm not sure how to do that... Looks like it uses Java script, so there is probably a ton of shit you can do with it. This shit is way addictive thanks for posting this.

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im just not interested in figuring out more scripts, so i just posted where the motherload of them are.
if anyone has questions, you can PM me still, ill be glad to help.
and im not gone, if i make a new desktop ill be posting it up here, don't worry ahha
 
i have geektools set up. but one of my newest and greatest geektool, is where it shows whats playing on pandora. here is the instructionsmake a file called "pandora-playing.scpt" and insert this text. "on run set info to "" tell application "System Events" set num to count (every process whose name is "PandoraBoy") end tell if num > 0 then tell application "PandoraBoy" if player state is playing then set who to artist of current track set what to name of current track set onwhat to album of current track set info to quote & what & quote & " by " & who & return & "from " & onwhat end if end tell end if return infoend run"
now in geektools make a new script, and direct it to the "pandora-playing.scpt" file. such as "Users/YOURUSERNAME/documents/geektools/pandora-playing.scpt"
now to download a player called "pandoraboy"http://code.google.com/p/pandoraboy/ download pandoraboy, install it. once you have done this, all you have to do is open pandora boy, and it will show up on geektools. if you have any questions eith PM me, or just ask on here. good luck.
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