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Geek to Live: Monitor your Mac and more with GeekTool

If you like to monitor your system using age-old command line tools like uptime and top, you want the free GeekTool on your Mac. Today we'll cover how to automatically embed command output, text files and even monitoring images - like web site traffic charts - onto your Mac desktop with GeekTool.

What GeekTool does

In a nutshell, GeekTool embeds text command output, text files or images onto your Mac desktop automatically and constantly refreshes them at a rate you define.

Preparing Your Mac for Mac OS X Lion

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is right around the corner. Is your Mac ready?

About a week and a half ago, Apple released the Golden Master version of Lion to Apple Developers. The final version is expected to hit the Mac App Store soon — perhaps in the next few days.

Mac OS X Lion will bring lots of new features to the Mac operating system, including enhanced multi-touch gesture support, the ability to swipe between fullscreen apps and a new auto-save system.

Upgrading an operating system can be a time-consuming process — no matter how easy the manufacturer tries to make it.

40 Useful Mac OS X Shell Scripts and Terminal Commands

Here are a bunch of Mac OS X terminal commands sorted into general categories. I have intentionally omitted long bash scripts and AppleScripts and focussed instead on small useful commands that can be plugged into bigger scripts or used on their own… enjoy!

Mac: Video Converter

Video Converter for Mac is powerful versatile Mac Video Converter and Mac Audio Converer software for Mac OS users specially.

Mac: Flash Video Downloader

Flash Video Downloader is an application which allows you to easily batch download and save streaming flash videos from just about any website with streaming flash videos as long as the videos are set to autoplay (that is, they start playing when the page loads).

Examples of sites are youtube.com, video.google.com, and dailymotion.com, but just about any website will work.

Mac: 23 Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are combinations of simultaneous key strokes that perform a particular task.
Using these shortcuts (which often involve modifier keys such as command, option, control and shift) typically saves time because you don’t need to move your hand from the keyboard to the mouse.

Mac: SnapNDrag screen capture made easy

SnapNDrag lets you take a screenshot by just clicking a button and dragging the resulting screenshot off.

For example, to email a screenshot, you would drag the screenshot from SnapNDrag to the Mail application. It is that simple. No hard-to-remember key combinations, no file conversion to deal with, no file dialog boxes to navigate, no temporary files to erase later on.

Supports PNG and TIFF for times when image quality cannot be compromised. Or use JPEG with adjustable quality for smaller file sizes.

Tweetie for Mac

Tweetie for Mac and iphone

Top 100 Mac Apps

Top 100 Mac Apps

Essential Mac OS X Applications

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