Friday, August 5, 2005

ShellSaver

by damonp on August 5, 2005

in General

ShellSaver is a Mac OSX screen saver that interfaces with shell scripts and command line applications to display useful information in the saver window. Some interesting uses:

  • Fortunes
  • RSS Feeds
  • Clocks/Timers
  • Any other information that can be formatted to stdout

ShellSaver Preferences Pane

ShellSaver Preferences

Download ShellSaver v0.7 Alpha

Please post any comments in this thread.

Currently tested commands:

/usr/bin/fortune -a
/bin/date
/usr/bin/tail FILENAME

If you don’t have fortune installed try installing with Fink:

sudo apt-get install fortune-mod

License

Currently released under a DonationWare License.

Links

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by damonp on August 5, 2005

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The Blog500

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Jason Calacanis offers a prize(?) to whoever can come up with a ‘kick butt’ list of the top 500 weblogs. $50,000 in advertising to anyone who could come up with a better ranking system or $10,000 cash to a programmer who creates such a system for his company. To actually build a ranking system, you [...]

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Rackspace – A Puppet for the Man?

5 August 2005

It seems that in bending over backward to abide by an Italian subpoena, Rackspace shuttered at least twenty websites for a week. Recently made public documents cited in a story on news.com. In October 2004, a federal prosecutor sent a subpoena to Rackspace Managed Hosting of San Antonio, Texas, as part of an investigation underway [...]

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A Grain of Salt?

5 August 2005

James R. Stoup rants on Apple Matters about why his posts are so differently recieved in different communities and the stigma attached to being a Mac user. Of course, there is the additional stigma of being a “Mac User”. I have seen it many times online and encountered it aplenty at my job. People think [...]

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