Install a modified Tiger-compatible version of GeekTool

Sep 30, '05 08:19:00AM

Contributed by: wallybear

Tired of waiting for a new release of GeekTool (it's been a long time that it's been stuck at 2.1(D8))? The current release also has some problems with Tiger -- take a look at the system console and you will see for yourself. These problems are because GeekTool uses some obsolete (and unofficial) calls to Core Image.

So I personally edited the source code (it's an open source app) to fix those problems. I also made some changes to speed up log window drawing, and reduce CPU load in some situations. Then I also added an Italian localization (both in the software and the online help).

This new release (unofficial, obviously!) is freely downloadable from the OS X Miscellanea page on my site; I hope you GeekTool fans will enjoy it!

[robg adds: GeekTool was one of my favorite pre-10.4 utilities, and it's nice to see the benefits of the open source model at work. I installed this modified version, and it definitely works better under Tiger than does the latest official release.]

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