Geektool: Use that wasted space beside the Dock

One little gripe I’ve always had about in OS X is the apparent waste of space either side of the Dock (assuming you have it centred at the bottom of the screen).

Geektool to the rescue!

Here’s the little scripts that I use to get the weather (just change the region code ASXX0016 to your region from weather.yahoo.com. Your region code will be found in the yahoo URL):

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=ASXX0016&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|C<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//'

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=ASXX0016&u=c" | grep -E '(High:)' | sed -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<br \/>//'

And the script for Memory usage, HDD space and Uptime:

top -l 1 | awk '/PhysMem/ {print $10}' 
df -hl | grep 'disk0s2' | awk '{print $4}'
echo "Uptime: "`uptime | awk '{print "" $3 " " $4 " " $5 }' | sed -e 's/.$//g';`

You might also be interested to check out other uses of Geektool on Flickr

To Apple: Let us put Widgets on the Desktop too please (without having to use a hack).

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2 Responses to “Geektool: Use that wasted space beside the Dock”

1. Lukan Says:

   May 25th, 2009 at 10:14 pm

   What a great little tool this is. Thanks heaps for the scripts they worked a treat.

2. ScriptoX Says:

   December 6th, 2009 at 8:01 pm

   Nice post..Keep them coming Thanks for sharing.