Here is an easy way to pull up your feeds from your Twitter friends timeline using GeekTool:
I found this command to be the easiest to implement and thought I’d share it with you. It isn’t too hard to do.

Twitter Feeds (the easy way)

Once you open GeekTool, open a new Shell Command and enter the following information:

curl -s -u username:password http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.rss | grep title | sed -e 's/<title>/ /' | sed -e 's/<\/title>/ /'

(NOTE: Insert your Twitter user name for username: and your Twitter password for :password)
Change the fonts, colors, etc. to whatever you choose and Voila! You’ve got a feed on your screen.
If any readers have other ways to add feeds, feel free to comment below and share the wealth with our fellow readers!

Since Halloween is right around the corner, I wanted to make a realistic spider web effect sucking in the Apple logo. My husband is the guru when it comes to design, so he created a cob web and added the Apple logo and gave the effect of it being pulled into the spider web. In fact, there are spiders in the screen, can you see how many there are? I wanted to make this fun for those viewing it, so I had him add some spiders, and asked the audience to see how many they can count. To add to the effect, I used GeekTool to add a countdown of how many days left to Halloween and used the echo to add ‘days to go’ behind after the countdown number. There is of course a way to do it without having to add an extra shell command, but we didn’t see the code until after the fact. However, you can use the echo command to add text to your screen though, so this is why we added it to this article. We used the Moon Phase II Yahoo Widget for the moon. Here are the commands for GeekTool:
Days To Go shell command:
echo "days to go"
CountDown shell command:
echo '<?=(int)((strtotime("Oct 31")-time())/86400)?>' | php
To add the Yahoo Widget, click on the moon to be directed to the download page on Yahoo Widgets.

To download the background without my desktop screen, go to the Freebies tab in this site for the download. This concludes this article, if you have any other GeekTool commands or Yahoo Widgets, please, leave a comment to help fellow readers. Also, check out more designs by my husband at http://philipbrunner.com.