#GEEKTOOL SCRIPTS WEATHER MAC OS#
#GEEKTOOL SCRIPTS WEATHER INSTALL#
#GEEKTOOL SCRIPTS WEATHER ZIP FILE#

Now look for the search bar for different cities and search your city. Open your browser and paste that into your address bar and hit Enter. See how there's a URL that leads to a city's Yahoo weather page? You will need to select that entire URL and copy it.

On the geeklet menu, copy the entire string and paste it into a TextEdit document. This geeklet is your weather background and also contains the information to display your weather icon and temperature. Now go back to glets and find weather-info.glet. Click here to set font & color on the geeklet menu and set the font to light 72pt Segoe UI. The background should show up in the top left corner! This will happen for every geeklet you open. Double-click to open - a dialogue box should pop up. This is the background for your time geeklet and the very first part of the entire widget. Now open that glets folder and find time-bg.glet. In the end, your groups should look like this: Click on the + icon and add Time, Weather, Email, Calendar, and Photobooth, in that order.īe sure to check off all the boxes next to the groups you just created and uncheck Default. See the Manage Groups section in the upper right corner? You're going to need to add five groups. This should take you to the GeekTool preferences panel. Open your System Preferences and click on the GeekTool icon in the bottom section labelled Other. For the purpose of this tutorial, I have left it on the desktop. Unzip the file and move it to a permanent place on your computer, somewhere you won't move it from for as long as you have this geeklet.

#GEEKTOOL SCRIPTS WEATHER ZIP FILE#

I also recommend that you bookmark TextEdit by dragging it from the Applications folder into your dock.ĭownload the zip file from the resources page.

#GEEKTOOL SCRIPTS WEATHER INSTALL#

You will need to download GeekTool and install it on your computer.

#GEEKTOOL SCRIPTS WEATHER MAC OS#

This is not compatible with any operating system other than Mac OS X.

You can find this font on your own or use an alternative such as Open Sans.īasic commands → ⌘ + A (Select All), ⌘ + C (Copy), ⌘ + V (Paste). I use the Segoe UI font on this tutorial, which is not normally available for use on a Mac. You will need a Gmail account to use the mail icon. Haven't ran it in forever.).This tutorial was created on a Macbook Pro running OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8). Grabs weather information for where I use to live in Florida, and shows the temperature (I think. It then draws colored bars to show how far it is into a song.

Script queries track length and current track time from itunes. It's also currently hard coded for a 2GB machine (I thought I fixed this!), it's currently off for grabbing the memory usage. Had to be updated at some point, but be off. This script uses the top command to pull memory usage. This script sees if itunes is running, and pulls the current playing song if available. Should be updated to be more flexible (horizontal lines, how many lines, width/height, etc.). This script uses the top command to pull CPU Usage information, and then draws vertical colored lines to show how much is in use and how much is free.

It expects the AppleScript to be in the same directory as it, and it takes the script as a command line parameter. This script is for running AppleScripts from the shell. Welcome! Here is a collection of scripts that I use with GeekTool.

Geektool scripts weather