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Desktop – August 2010
Desktop – August 2010
Image by Ricecracker.
I wanted to keep it clean and simple for August.
Desktop image from DeviantArt.
Programs include Shiftlt, Growl, YouControl Tunes, Caffeine, Nocturne, Instantshot, Adium, Breakaway, JustNotes and Geektool.
Icons are Kobhens. I got mine from a different site, so I can’t vouch for those…
Geektool scripts:
Time:
date +"%I:%M"
AM/PM:
date +"%p"
Weekday:
date +%A
Day of the month:
date +%d
Month:
date +%B
Calendar:
cal | awk -v cday=`date "+%d"` ‘{ fill=(int(cday)>9?"":" "); \
Uptime:
uptime
RAM Usage:
top -l 1 | awk ‘/PhysMem/ {print "Used: " " Free: " }’
Airport info:
sh /Users/Isaac/airport.sh
Battery Percent:
ioreg -l | grep -i capacity | tr ‘\n’ ‘ | ‘ | awk ‘{printf("%.2f%%", / * 100)}’
Don’t try this at home!
Image by mhaithaca
My disassembled 12" PowerBook G4, ready to have the old hard drive taken out and the new one put in. This was way harder than I expected it to be. If I’d looked at the instructions first, I would probably not have ordered the hard drive online, but just sent the damn thing off to Apple battery.
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Image by Les_Stockton
Paul drove all the way from northeast Missouri. He brought a cool setup where he had a 5 watt solar panel, hooked up with this little portable battery unit from WalMart; and he powered his Ham radio system, as well as a laptop battery computer battery.
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how did you do the dock?? thats really coooool!
Thanks. Which part were you interested in; the icons, or the 2D effect?
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/imazerart] the 2d effects ! I have been searching for something like that for ages and couldn’t find a way to do that !
There are a few ways of doing this. You should always make a back-up of your computer before doing any of them.
One way is to copy and paste the following Terminal line into Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock
Then press enter.
Another way is to install the pref pane ‘Secrets’, and under the Top Secrets category, choose Dock Appearance.
Hope those work!
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/imazerart] thanks so much for this!! it did work out just as i wanted it to be!!thank you!
I’ve added your screenshot to my Creative GeekTool Screenshots From August article applevie.ws/2010/10/creative-geektool-screenshots-from-august/.
I did that to my 12". Put in 100GB. Its one of the scarriest things ive done. Lots of screws to keep track of. I found some good instructions online and was able to do it in about an hour.
It’s easier the second time. Not that I recommend doing it twice, but if you get a new drive 6 months after a new HD… I guess they didn’t do too much to change the insides of the 12" PB from the 12" iBook.
Yup, I actually did have to do it twice, and the 12" PowerBook design is a lot like the 12" iBook design.
A new hard drive is nothing! Try replacing the DC-In board and have to memorize the where all of those cables strung through the inner-frame go.
I try it at school