Time & Date Desktop

[James!]

Ok I just seen Nick's setup in the setup thread, and I'm wondering what add-on/application would allow me to get the time and date etc like the picture below in the bottom left hand corner of my desktop?

http://img.skitch.com/20090225-pbbse7jc2eeyc1n1qnkwgm777h.png

[Inscribe]

Rainmeter .

[Kyle!]

Rainmeter .

For Mac? Sure...

[James!]

Anybody? Nick won;t answer the pm :(

[Monopoly]

It might be a dashboard widget that's been moved to the desktop.
Probably not, mind.
Did you ever find out what it was?

[James!]

Yeah using shell, but it isn't the same, here's what mine looks like now..

http://i44.tinypic.com/242wiom.png

[HotelUser]

It's called GeekTools. It allows you to show the output of shell commands on your desktop. You just write a script to show time, something like

date +"%I:%M%p"

and then it will show you the time on your desktop. Here's mine using it:
http://macmee.com/screenshots/desktop-3.01.09.png


Showing the weather conditions is a little more sophisticated. For me, I wrote a PHP script to get the current weather conditions for my city, and then using curl from the shell I display it on my desktop. There's guides for weather on Google. Just search GeekTools weather script.

[James!]

Yeah but Nicks' one looks well different to the ones we have.

[HotelUser]

Yeah but Nicks' one looks well different to the ones we have.
http://img.skitch.com/20090208-1qdhhx7xj7ewmetgckpsuwemj2.png

It's the same. He just has different fonts and sizes.