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GeekTool for a Weather Screensaver
Authored by: pmtav on Jul 10, '04 12:30:29PM

I've set up GeekTool to curl weather images every 10 min to a folder and selected that folder in the screensaver to display the images... voila, weather screensaver. Of course you could curl whatever images you want..

In GeekTool, I set several curls as a one-line command (all only one line), such as:

curl -o ~/Pictures/weather/us_ec_9regradar_large_usen.jpg http://image.weather.com/web/radar/us_ec_9regradar_large_usen.jpg; curl -o ~/Pictures/weather/ec_curtemp_720x486.jpg http://image.weather.com/images/maps/current/ec_curtemp_720x486.jpg

and checked "Hide Output". I could have set up the curls as a cron job, but GeekTool gives me an easier option to enable or disable the downloads..



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