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[brenm666]

Hi guys, sorry to bother with Yet Another weather question!

Now... i've got lynx installed into applications and so on.

Then i placed this: lynx -dump http://printer.wunderground.com/global/stations/94767.html|awk '/Cond/ && !/Fore/ {for (i=2; i<=10; i++) printf $i " " }''/Temp/{printf $2, ": "; for (i=3; i<=3; i++) printf $i " " }'
into the shell....

As a result.. i am getting in the box... only the word "conditions".... How can this be?

Thanks

dont use lynx... use this instead...

the current weather :

curl "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=CAXX0301&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>//'

2-day forecast :

curl  "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=CAXX0301&u=c" | grep -e "Forecast:" -A 2 | tail -n 2 | sed -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' | sed "s/\(.*\)\.\ \(.*\)/\1\?\2/" | tr "?" "\n" | sed "s/High\:\ \(.*\)\ Low\:\ \(.*\)/\?H\: \1\  L\:\ \2/" | sed "s/\?\(.*\)/\\1/"

thats a really good video about the weather images if you want... really well explained
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNFkW1lLxtU

 

[Joggingbrot]

Here's my first try

Tell me what you think

And yeah..., sometimes you need windows

 

[olletsocmit]

I am having big formatting problems. Each time the day, date, month, etc changes... my setup get all messed up. I can not find out how to format the top left of my screen so that it looks good each day when it changes! I do not want to have to change the format of it every single day. I with there was a way so i could have it auto format each day(Mon-Sun) so it looks good.

I have attached 2 pics. The first one is from Sunday when it looks good, the second is Friday... huge gap between Friday and the 17. any ideas?

 

[rprebel]

I can not find out how to format the top left of my screen so that it looks good each day when it changes!...any ideas?

Right Justify the day of the week script. I circled it in the pic.

 

[olletsocmit]

Right Justify the day of the week script. I circled it in the pic.

Right now each thing is in a seperate box. should i put the day of the week and the date in the same box?

 

[rprebel]

should i put the day of the week and the date in the same box?

No, how you have it now is fine. I like the font, too. Just right justify the day so it always sits right next to the date and you're good to go.

 

[olletsocmit]

No, how you have it now is fine. I like the font, too. Just right justify the day so it always sits right next to the date and you're good to go.

ahhh. Thanks guys! I finally got it

 

[cbrink]

Finished Product

 

[olletsocmit]

I have attached a screenshot of my current setup. Its nothing special, def needs a lot of work! I have all my refresh rates set at 0 for every box. Is that correct? Wont this be slowing down the computer is its constantly updating.

If anyone has any formatting ideas for this background or color changes Please let me know.

 

[clientsiman]

Does any of you know how can I use a binary cloak with geektool? Is there any script for this?

 

[olletsocmit]

Does any of you know how can I use a binary cloak with geektool? Is there any script for this?

I have seen it done... Saw it on a forum recently, but forget where. I will look now and post when i find it. It may just have been a look alike, but we'll see

 

[brenm666]

Does any of you know how can I use a binary cloak with geektool? Is there any script for this?

not on geektool but it works well...
http://www.ilovemacapps.com/utility/xbc-have-a-binary-clock-on-your-mac

 

[clientsiman]

not on geektool but it works well...
http://www.ilovemacapps.com/utility/xbc-have-a-binary-clock-on-your-mac

Thanks but I am only looking for a geektool one.
I already have this nice widget http://haubergs.com/widgets#Binary

 

[brenm666]

Thanks but I am only looking for a geektool one.
I already have this nice widget http://haubergs.com/widgets#Binary

only solution I see is applescript... but it would be a lot of work for not much...

 

[lapeno]

http://www.corla.co.za/capture1.jpg

I like your setup very much. Mind sharing your scripts.

 

[olletsocmit]

I am having problems with my geektools scripts when i first start up my 2010 MacBook Pro. I have attached 2 pictures. The first one is what it looks like when the computer starts up. Everything is fine except the weather picture. I have to manually right-click on the geektoops icon in my top taskbar and refresh all in order for the weather picture to show up. the 2nd screen shot is what its supposed to look like. Why do i have to do this?

 

[uzzy]

iTunes Lyrics

Question...

I'm running the following lyrics geeklet on geektool (http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/music/display-lyrics-playing-of-track-in-itunes-and-updates-your-itunes-lyrics-1/). My music doesn't have any lyrics and this as it states it will find the lyrics and update my files. I've checked and it is doing this just fine. However, it provides the following at the beginning of the each song "Title" <!-- start of lyrics --> and <!-- end of lyrics --> at the end of each song. My question is there a way to get rid of the bolded items above? I don't want the "Title" and <!-- start/end of lyrics -->?

Hopefully that was clear, but if not let me know and I'll try to explain it a little better.

 

[jck1634]

Hi guys.

Switched over to Nerdtool so I thought I’d do a little refresh of my HTC Geeklet.

I was inspired by Night Stand HD in the app store. Just wanted to make it a lot more minimal and cleaner so it wouldn’t stand out too much. Looks really good on bright and dark walls.

let me know what you guys think.

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=252389&stc=1&d=1284906317

 

[jck1634]

I am having problems with my geektools scripts when i first start up my 2010 MacBook Pro. I have attached 2 pictures. The first one is what it looks like when the computer starts up. Everything is fine except the weather picture. I have to manually right-click on the geektoops icon in my top taskbar and refresh all in order for the weather picture to show up. the 2nd screen shot is what its supposed to look like. Why do i have to do this?

That’s quite normal actually because your laptop doesn’t have an internet connection immediately when it’s turned on. The picture will come on depending on your refresh rate or as you said if you do a manual refresh.
So for example if the refresh rate for the image is set to say 60 seconds, then the image will be on your screen 60 seconds after you turn your laptop on and connect to a working internet connection. Then every 60 seconds after that it will go back to yahoo to see if the pictures.

 

[olletsocmit]

That’s quite normal actually because your laptop doesn’t have an internet connection immediately when it’s turned on. The picture will come on depending on your refresh rate or as you said if you do a manual refresh.
So for example if the refresh rate for the image is set to say 60 seconds, then the image will be on your screen 60 seconds after you turn your laptop on and connect to a working internet connection. Then every 60 seconds after that it will go back to yahoo to see if the pictures.

Ok, Thank you. Most of my stuff is set at 0 for refresh rate. does that mean its never going to change unless i manually change it? What do you have ur month, day, temp refresh rates set at?

 

[jck1634]

Things like the day, date, month etc I have set to 3600. That’s about 60 minutes. I’d recommend about half that for the weather conditions and weather image. That does mean you’ll have to manually refresh the image when you boot in if you’re not prepared to wait 30 minutes

For the time it’s best to just set it at 10.

 

[rprebel]

Most of my stuff is set at 0 for refresh rate. does that mean its never going to change unless i manually change it? What do you have ur month, day, temp refresh rates set at?

Yes, if you set it at 0 it will never refresh.
I set my date/time scripts at 5 seconds. The weather scripts are set to 15 minutes (900 seconds).

Things like the day, date, month etc I have set to 360. That’s about 6 hours.

That's 6 minutes. All GT refresh times are in seconds.

 

[olletsocmit]

Can someone please post the script for this iTunes screen shot attached or something like this. I would also like to place a small play, next, pause buttons under the album art if possible. anyone have ne idead.

 

[rprebel]

Can someone please post the script for this iTunes screen shot attached or something like this. I would also like to place a small play, next, pause buttons under the album art if possible. anyone have ne idead.

That's not GT, it's Bowtie. bowtieapp.com

There are tons of skins/themes for Bowtie on deviantart.com, in the customization section.

 

[jck1634]

Sorry meant 60 minutes