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I had already planned to stop along Big Oak Flat Road to try for some shots of the decimated hills left behind after last year's Foresta fire. An early winter storm was moving over the Sierras that morning, and that's what you see here. What was so striking to me was the way the clouds of fog so resembled smoke from a fire, much as this scene must have looked as the fire waned.
Youtube: Dream Factory
Photograph by Yusuf Alioglu
First off, if this seems complicated, it's because IT IS. The makers of geektool never promised otherwise (for now). Hopefully these notes will enlighten you a bit.
Fonts: Helvetica Neue; light and ultralight
The codes:
This is the most difficult part to get right. My advice is to follow this guy's guide: www.macthemes.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16801674&p=1
WEATHER ICON
file://localhost/tmp/weather.png
Refresh rate: 600
*Shows image from the "fetcher" shell*
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WEATHER CONDITIONS (must be personalised)
curl --silent "http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=CAXX0236&u=c" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|C<BR)' | tail -n1 | sed -e 's///' -e 's/ C$/˚C/'
Refresh Rate: 600
Simply replace
CAXX0236&u=c
with your own city's address
***The final letter c in "CAXX0236&u=c" refers to celsius, so replacing it to the letter"f" makes it fahrenheit
HOW TO:
- go to : weather.yahoo.com/
- find your city's weather page by searching it
- click on the rss feed button (it's orange and says RSS...)
- the last part of the webpage's address is what you need to replace my own code above
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WEATHER IMAGE FETCHER (must be personalized)
create an empty shell with this code:
curl --silent -o /tmp/weather.html ca.weather.yahoo.com/canada/quebec/longueuil-4388/;
Refresh rate: 600
*Fetches image from yahoo server and store it locally.*
Simply replace
ca.weather.yahoo.com/canada/quebec/longueuil-4388/
with your own city's address
HOW TO:
- go to : weather.yahoo.com/
- find your city's weather page by searching it
- the last part of the webpage's address is what you need to replace my own code above
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DATE
date "+%a, %B %d"
Refresh rate: 1000
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TIME
date "+%l:%M"
Refresh rate: 20
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UPTIME
uptime | sed 's/.* up /Uptime: /' | sed s/,.*//;
Refresh rate: 60
*There is a better uptime code but I can't find it right now so I'll post it on my next geektools desktop.*
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This Geektool desktop was inspired and based on Ian Smith's creations: ianmichaelsmith.carbonmade.com/
and by Randall Creasey take on it: www.flickr.com/photos/25212804@N07/5375969123
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The menu bar was changed to black thanks to: lifehacker.com/#!5280456/hide-your-mac-menu-bar-and-dock-...
An alternate would be:www.winjade.net/board/index.php?showtopic=11720
OR
the non-hacking required way (easy): www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9G1CV3wcRU
using Nocture (free): code.google.com/p/blacktree-nocturne/downloads/list
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I've also made the menu bar auto-hide (somewhat hit&miss depending on the app) thanks to magic menu: www.cynosurex.com/Software/MagicMenu/
**don't use with apps that need to connect to your keychain as magic menu breaks the link, you can go back on this though.
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Desktop: fiftyfootshadows.net/2010/12/28/white-sands-pack/
Geektool files & Hack: dl.dropbox.com/u/6718818/desert_desktop.zip
Tutorial Ian Michael Smith: lifehacker.com/5731409/the-sands-of-time-desktop
Inspired by Ian Michael Smith: www.flickr.com/photos/40156273@N06/
Thankfully, the weather helped me catch some "black trees" - taken from my garden looking towards our local church.
Our Daily Challenge ~ Black Trees ....
Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... thanks to you all.
"Forest Fire Sunrise" by Patti Deters. Smoke from Canada forest fires color the sky bright vivid orange as seen in this foggy sunrise near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, USA. The tree line is in silhouette, framing the rising sun. The weather was misty and damp which added to the stunning effect of this simple and minimalistic wildfire scene. If you like outdoor nature photography, please see more landscapes, abstracts, and other beautiful imagery at patti-deters.pixels.com/featured/forest-fire-sunrise-patt....
We have had clouds for 5+ days and rain off & on. Finally a chance to take a "black tree" (silhouetted" shot. The naked tree trunk has been standing for many years. Not sure if lightening or a wind storm caused the branches to fall off. But i like the effect for the shot.
ODC
Black Trees (silhouetted)
Blue Skies ,nothing but blue skies do I see,Blue Birds singin' a song.Nothin ' but blue skies from now on................
Wei Wu Wei is a Taoist term that means 'act without doing'.
I've been tidying up my laptop over the last couple of days (backup routines, links between different computers, etc) to try and simplify everything as much as possible. In the process I came across some great applications, like Quicksilver. If you don't know about it and you use a Mac, then please take a look.
I'm also trying to breathe some life in to my tumblr blog so I'll add something there soon about all the different things I found. You never know, you might find something that's of interest to you too!
Detail of a wall on a 10-storey building at More London
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Two rare reptile species native to two delicate island ecosystems—the black tree monitor, native to the Aru Islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea; and the mossy leaf-tailed gecko, native to Madagascar—are now thriving at the San Diego Zoo. The latest milestones in a long history of successful reptile breeding, the new arrivals offer hope for two little-known, yet important species. Read more: bit.ly/2cdySHN