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Welcome to Geektool 3.0 Development page

Geektool is a Mac OS X preference module that let you display on your desktop all kind of informations.

Historically, it could display local files, shell commands, or images from the internet, dynamically. It opens a wide range of usage from simple log file monitoring to web cam on your desktop.

Now I restarted this project from scratch, it is more structured, modular, compatible with leopard, etc...

There is also a Twitter feed you may want to follow @geektool.

Please read the FAQ and HelpDeveloper before sending email or report bugs

Source code

The source code is not yet available, that's because I did not decided yet how I will distribute it. It may become donationware, it may become opensource too, I don't know exactly.

Nightly build

Latest nightly build is available at this address : http://update.tynsoe.org/geektool3/Beta/GeekTool-latest.zip

New nightly will be announced on Twitter, I don't see an easier way for now

Icon

Yes, Geektool needs a shiny new icon... If you feel inspired, send me your suggestions at geektool at tynsoe.org

At this time, I received two proposals :

and

Feel free to discuss it in the forum

Backing up

Geektool settings are stored in ~/Library/Preferences/

Each type of Geeklet has its own preference file to avoid the risk of messing the whole configuration if a Geeklet fail in some way.

Basically, copy ~/Library/Preferences/org.tynsoe.geek* somewhere and you should be safe

(Or restore those file from the TimeMachine backup you must have)

Usage Samples

geektool1.png (4.9 KB) Yann BIZEUL, 07/20/2009 01:14 AM

geektool2.png (4.3 KB) Yann BIZEUL, 07/20/2009 01:14 AM

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