Nobody wants to see the harsh shadowing that GeekTool uses. The NerdTool screenshot is on the top and the GeekTool is on the bottom. Shell mode to launch custom scripts or commands like df to check space left on filesystems or uptime to. It lets you display various kinds of information on your desktop via 3 default plug-ins: File plugin to monitor MacOS X activity with /var/log/system.log, or any file that you want to follow. Unfortunately, GeekTool’s shadowing looks like shit with smaller fonts: GeekTool is an application for Mac OS 10.6+. Just change that false to a true and reimport the file to get shadowing. GeekTool doesn’t have a checkbox to shadow the text, although I’ve found that you can edit an exported Geeklet file (it’s just a plist) and turn on shadowing. The Finder uses shadowed text for files on the Desktop and for good reason-it definitely makes the text easier to read. For reference, both Tools were running my old Date and Time scripts and this set of Spotify scripts I wrote a couple of months ago.Īnother point in NerdTool’s favor is its support for shadowed text. ![]() I suppose I shouldn’t be concerned about a hundred megabytes or so, but I’ve had trouble with GeekTool eating up memory in the past and just don’t want to worry about that again. It installs as a preference pane in the System Preferences, and from there you can open use. Based on a short test, I’ll keep using NerdTool, mainly because of this: GeekTool is a utility that allows you to embed objects and information directly onto your Macs desktop. Since GeekTool is free, and Brett seems to have gone back to it, I figured I’d run the two programs head-to-head to see how they compare. I had to abandon it for a while on my MacBook Air when I upgraded to OS X 10.7, but I’m running it again now that Mutable Code has made it Lion-compatible. I’ve been using NerdTool since I saw this Brett Terpstra post several months ago. GeekTool went up on the Mac App Store on August 21, which explains why my various GeekTool posts have seen a jump in traffic. Next post Previous post NerdTool over GeekTool
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