A carpenter is as good as the tools he uses.
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You have the best carpentry training available (carnauba wax), a designer kitchen to trim out (the latest model Corvette)…what’s missing? The detailing tools to do the job! It may be possible to cut molding with an old-fashioned hand saw, but you’d be much happier with the results if you have a workshop full of Makita, DeWalt and Milwaukee power tools at your disposal. Compare your wax with know-how, your car with the finished product. Not a new concept! Imagine something other than the world of car care (gasp!) if you would, such as, let’s say, carpentry. We so entwined ourselves in these issues, that we failed to take into consideration one essential element: What auto detailing supplies are used to apply or remove the product is every bit as important to the final outcome as the product itself! Less experienced users may find it slightly intimidating, but geeks and old hands looking to do more with the desktop will find it utterly compelling.Back in the day, when we were a little less experienced (OK, a lot!), we focused solely on finding the ultimate product for the job-which car wax lasted longest, shone the most, gave the most bang for the buck Which leather conditioner yielded the most tactile, supple, inviting surface Which tire dressing applied the neatest, and offered the greatest longevity and the deepest, richest gloss.
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Transform your Mac desktop with the help of this utterly brilliant tool.
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You can also download example Geeklets from an official repository - just click the "Where do I start?" link to discover how to use them. It can be a little daunting getting started with GeekTools, so make sure you familiarise yourself with its capabilities and follow some tutorials at the GeekTools wiki, where you'll also find links to other websites showing off GeekTool to its best. Geeklets can be placed into multiple groups, ensuring core ones are always displayed. Geeklets can be organised into different groups – this allows you to select or de-select entire groups of Geeklets to show or hide them. Geeklets are actually placed in the layer between the actual desktop background and the Finder icons – to place them on the top-most layer so they're always visible, just tick “Keep on top”. When you're done customising your Geeklet, just click away from the GeekTools Preferences pane to hide its Preferences panel and see how it appears on-screen. The Shell option is potentially the most powerful, as it allows you to use Unix commands to display information on your desktop – for example, type “date” into the Command box to display the date and time, then use the controls to customise how it looks and appears on-screen. Each works in a slightly different way – for example, the File template is designed to let you display the contents of a specific file (typically something that updates regularly, like a log file), while Image can be used to display graph data from specific systems, an image from a public website (like a webcam) or simply an image file or folder full of images from your hard drive.
GeekTool installs itself as a Preferences pane: once in place, launch the tool and you'll find three icons ready and waiting for you: File, Image and Shell. These Geeklets are then placed on your desktop where they can be easily customised in terms of appearance according to your individual whim. It's designed to let you create customised widgets – or “Geeklets” as GeekTool likes to call them – containing all kinds of information. If you're in the camp that finds it useful to scatter these tiny panes of information across your desktop, then the GeekTool will be up your street.
Widgets: you either love 'em or hate 'em.