How To Use GeekTool To Truly Make Your Mac Your Own

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Would you rather have your boring desktop space filled with useful system information or family photos? If your desktop is looking a little boring you can add an extra layer of customization with GeekTool, a Mac OS X application which adds applets to your desktop called “geeklets”. These are similar to gadgets and widgets in Windows and Conky, a very similar desktop enhancement for Linux. Just how flexible are these geeklets? Let’s find out. Geeklets GeekTool comes with three different geeklets – text, image, and shell. A text geeklet allows you to display the contents of any plain text file. As an example, if…

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How To Use GeekTool To Truly Make Your Mac Your Own