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Geektool is even cooler than I thought…

Posted on Friday, 5th August 2011 by eroux

Hacking away at Geektool I decided to try something else: sending raw terminal escape-codes at it and see how it handled it… In short: even better than I thought. So here is an update to my earlier Geeklet to display … Continue reading →

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Of fortunes and Macs and (Xscreen)savers…

Posted on Friday, 29th July 2011 by eroux

Every so often I have the urge to do something quite unnatural; something like, for instance, actually updating the software on my Macbook… Rather subversive, I know, but we all have our weaknesses. One go the packages I make a … Continue reading →

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Of Geeky Mac Users and their Tools…

Posted on Sunday, 24th July 2011 by eroux

One of the toys I’ve come to appreciate running on my Mac, is a little utility called GeekTool…

What makes GeekTool cool, is that it allows you to embed different items into your Mac desktop, so it is quite easy to use it to display a text file, for instance (like your system log) or to scrape a ticker-tape from the web and use that to keep track of your favourite Stock Price, but it is also possible to do much cooler stuff… Continue reading →

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While it has been said, at least somewhat truthfully, that I am easily amused, I must admit to being rather amused that while my Blog renders quite fine on Classilla in my emulated — near pre-historic — MacOS 9 environment, … Continue reading →

Posted on Tuesday, 17th August 2010 by eroux | Leave a comment