{"id":4728,"date":"2010-07-07T17:28:15","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T15:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2010-07-17T21:11:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-17T19:11:19","slug":"a-living-desktop-for-snow-leopard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2010\/07\/a-living-desktop-for-snow-leopard\/","title":{"rendered":"A living desktop for Snow Leopard"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are certainly a zillion ways how to do create a nice background for your Mac. Here is my favorite method of a weather forecast, an individual calendar and the most recent emails. I created just three geeklets and loaded them in Geektool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nThe most difficult part turned out to get the weather icon from Yahoo! With a little help form several sites I ended up with the following code for Munich<\/p>\n

\ncurl –silent “http:\/\/weather.yahoo.com\/germany\/bavaria\/munich-676757\/” | grep “forecast-icon”| sed “s\/.*background\\:url(\\’\\(.*\\)\\’)\\;\\ _background.*\/\\1\/” | xargs curl –silent –output “\/Users\/wjst\/Documents\/Daten\/System\/yweather.png”
\ncurl –silent “http:\/\/xml.weather.yahoo.com\/forecastrss?p=GMXX0087&u=c” | grep -E ‘\/\/’ -e s’\/\\”\/\/g’ -e s’\/ \/ \/g’
\ncurl –silent “http:\/\/xml.weather.yahoo.com\/forecastrss?p=GMXX0087&u=c” | grep -E ‘\/\/’ -e s’\/\\”\/\/g’ -e s’\/ \/ \/g’ -e ‘s\/date=\/\/’ -e ‘s\/text=\/\/g’ -e ‘s\/ code=3.\/\/g’\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

while the picture is simply loaded from \/Users\/wjst\/Documents\/Daten\/System\/yweather.png.
\nFor the ical bridge I installed icalbuddy<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\/usr\/local\/bin\/icalBuddy -nc -sd -ic Todo -b “” -li 3 -stda uncompletedTasks | sed -e “s\/!\/\/” -e ‘s\/^ \/\/g’
\necho ” ”
\n\/usr\/local\/bin\/icalBuddy -nc -sd -ic Out,Base -df %a” “%d.%m.%Y -nrd -b “” -iep datetime,title -eed -po datetime,title -ps “| | – |” eventsToday+6 | sed -e “s\/*\/Geburtstag *\/” | sed -e “s\/!\/!!\/”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

while emails are pulled by a short appescript that I found at macosxhints.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\nosascript \/Users\/wjst\/Documents\/Daten\/System\/NoNewMail.scpt| sed -e “s\/\\\/\/\/” | sed -e “s\/\\”\/\/”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

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\n CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 08.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are certainly a zillion ways how to do create a nice background for your Mac. Here is my favorite method of a weather forecast, an individual calendar and the most recent emails. I created just three geeklets and loaded them in Geektool.   CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 08.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[2568,2653],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","category-computer-software","tag-desktop","tag-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4763,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/4763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}