My Desktop
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Dieter Rams' 10 principles of good design inspired my desktop design. I have reduced noise, clutter and distraction to minimum similar to many of Rams designs for Braun.
The primary screen is Dell SP2309W and the secondary screen is my MacBook from 2006. I have removed all icons from the menu bar. Dropbox required a little trick. The dockbar is hidden since I use Quicksilver. On the secondary screen, I used icons from gosquared, geektool and Bowtie for displaying iTunes.
Date
date "+%A, %d. %b %H:%M:%S"
Weather
curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=AUXX0018&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///' -e 's/<\/description>//'
GMail on Google Apps
g=`curl -u info@thomasrstegelmann.com:************* --silent "https://mail.google.com/a/thomasrstegelmann.com/feed/atom" | grep "fullcount" | sed 's/.*<fullcount>//;s/<\/fullcount>//'` if [ "$g" = "0" ] then echo "No Messages" elif [ "$g" = "1" ] then echo "1 Message" else echo "$g Messages" fi
37) Disable The Spotlight Icon
This command removes the spotlight icon. Type 755 to re-enable it, instead of 0.
sudo chmod 0 /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app
killall Spotlight
from:
http://www.mactricksandtips.com/2008/02/top-50-terminal-commands.html
if you are a normal user (not administrator), you have to do a
"su administratorusername" first