I was looking for Mac applications through Google the other day when I ran into this website (Vladstudio) that had wallpaper clocks. To my curiosity, I installed the Wallpaper Clock, which is free and added some of their free themes. What I found to be really unique about these wallpapers is that the clocks actually worked. Normally, I use GeekTool to produce my date, time, etc. but these functions were built into the wallpaper. The wallpaper that I used for the theme shown is the Metal clock. I still used GeekTool to add This Day in History and the Quotes using Kraken Thin for the font. The website where I downloaded the wallpaper clock from has many wallpapers to choose from. Some are free and some are for registered users only. To become registered, they offer a Lifetime account (which is currently on sale for Halloween and never expires) at $19.99, a 3 Month account for $9.99 and a 12 Month account for $19.99. Below is the GeekTool command for the Quotes and This Day in History commands:
Quotes:
curl http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/feeds/rssfeed.aspx?type=quote | grep description | sed -e 's/\(.*<description>\)//' -e 's/<\/description>.*//'
This Day in History:
curl http://www.infoplease.com/rss/dayinhistory.rss | grep CDATA | sed -e 's/\(.*\[\)//' -e 's/\].*//'
This concludes todays customized desktop. Enjoy.
-TINA
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Posted on 18 October 2009 by Tina Brunner
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October 21st, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Another handy command to get days in history is:
cat /usr/share/calendar/cal* | grep `date +”%m/%d”`
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:12 am
I normaly don’t take the time to comment on random websites, but I really like your style.
Keep up the good work, and you’re now added to my RSS flow, so I’ll keep following you!
/Andreas, Sweden
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Excellent work, thanks for sharing! I gave ya a follow on Twitter. Also, I like how you have your social sites placed on the left side bar which follows the user as they scroll. Mind sharing how ya pulled that off? :)
-Mig
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:32 am
Miguel, I used the ‘Cute Profiles’ for WordPress. Here is the link: http://www.clickonf5.org/cute-profiles and Thank You for visiting and following me on Twitter.
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:34 am
Andreas, Thank you so much for subscribing to my RSS. Also, thank you for the comment!
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:34 am
Scruffy Bob, I really appreciate the tip for other users! Thank you so much!
October 25th, 2009 at 10:12 am
Hello tina, wonderful post, i have tried replicating it, but i can never get geektool to appear over the wallpaper clock by itself/automatically, i always need to access the geektool pref pane and toggle it on off.
Any advice? thanky ou
October 25th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Peter, Thank you. About GeekTool…before exiting GeekTool, you want to make sure that the group you are using has a check and also make sure that ‘enable’ is checked? Let me know if this helps. Otherwise, I will look into it to see what else my be wrong.
October 25th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Thanks for your reply, both are checked, it seems that when i restart the computer, geek tool loads above me wallpaper, but under the wallpaper clock, as if its getting sandwiched in between them, unless i select always on top option its always under the clock wallpaper.
October 25th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Peter, sorry you’re still having problems with the tools. Are GeekTool and Wallpaper Clocks in your list of login items in the system preferences? If not, then you can add them manually by going to your System Preferences, under Accounts, then you click on your user name and look under the Login Items tab. Click on the + sign which opens the Finder, then open Applications (or wherever you have the GeekTool and Wallpaper Clocks stored) and add them to the list. Let me know if this helps. We WILL figure this out!
October 25th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Hey tina thanks once again for the quick reply, the login items are indeed there and intact both geektool and wallpaper clock. i tried witching theor order around but it just seems like geektool always loads faster or before wallpaper clock causing it to display its data under the wallpaper clock itself, need i mention im running mac osx 10.6
October 25th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Peter, I’m sorry you are still having problems with the tools. I will contact both GeekTool and Wallpaper Clocks to see if there are any issues with your version of Mac and comment their responses. Keep your fingers crossed that we can get this resolved.
October 26th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Tina thank you so much for your help it is deeply appreciated!!! i will definitely subscribe to this website.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Peter. Thank you for your patience. I have sent the information to both GeekTool and Wallpaper Clock. Now all we have to do is wait for their response. I will keep tabs here to help you out and anybody else who may be having the same issue. I will post any information I receive from both parties as soon as I receive word from them.
October 26th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Hey, Tina and other Peter:
I’m having the same problem on my Snow Leopard box. I get a flash of my GeekTool scripts if I try to quick look something in full screen (option + space), but it’s just for a fraction of a second before it goes away, taking my icons with it. Clicking on the desktop fixes the icons, but GeekTool stays hidden. You might have to wait for Apple, GeekTool, Wallpaper Clocks, or all three to release an update for this to work right :|
October 26th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Hello Peter and other Peter. I received an email back from GeekTool. Here is what was sent.
Hi Tina.
I think I already was into this situation, and if I remember correctly, I think the launch order matters.
Here is a simple think to test :
- Enable GeekTool
- Quit and Enable Wallpaper Clock
What happens ?
- Enable Wallpaper Clock
- Disable and enable GeekTool (from GeekTool prefs)
What happens ?
If I’m correct, the two situations should be different, and one should be on top of the other depending on the launch order (last launching being frontmost).
You can adjust launch order in Snow Leopard by drag and drop in Login Items panel.
Yann Bizeul
Let me know if this helps. If it doesn’t, I will contact GeekTool again.
October 26th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
It seems like it’s ignoring the launch order; I always see GeekTool first, regardless of the order in System Preferences. Opening the GeekTool prefpane fixes it, so maybe this is a problem Apple has to fix.