I do that by accident now and then but I think I'll start doing it intentionally now on the laptop to check the time. (Oh, and thanks, for the Mission Control reminder. The popup in the Keyboard Maestro macro includes options to add an Open, Payment or Upcoming event, mark an event Complete or Delete an item. But then I thought why not use Prompt for User Input to make it a breeze. It's easy enough to do this in a text file (with a Keyboard Maestro macro to open the file) and that's what I've been doing. They are identified by a code on the first line that helps sort the random lines in the file into categories and style them so what you see on the screen looks orderly. The widget recognizes four types of items: Open (to do), Complete (done), Payments (bills) and Upcoming (events to keep in mind). It provides a front end for my reminders: The screen shot above is from the secondary monitor (hence no menu bar). This arrangement works on both my secondary monitor and on a laptop screen without modification. On the left side is battery status, the top CPU widget (reformatted) and my reminders widget (based on a simple to-do list widget). On the bottom line is the time and a line calendar. There are five widgets active, all derived from those found in the Widgets Gallery. If you see a process that is not something you are actively using (browser, ITunes) is using more than, say 15 of your cpu, try to find out what it does and wether other people have had that problem. Click the menu button and select Settings. If it's not geektool, it might be some other process: Activity Monitor (you can sort by CPU usage) will show you that too. Are they display-only, or can they generate alerts and have buttons to take some action? Privacy Firefox options, preferences and settings This article summarizes the Firefox Settings panels and what types of settings they contain.Can you specify the desktop/space to put the widgets on?.So, since you have used this system for a while, may I ask you: Then, when I want to check the status, switch to that desktop. One thought I did have is to put this kind of stuff on a separate desktop/space where I have nothing else. I know others that want the data constantly in their face – and that’s fine. So, most of the time I don’t care about CPU, memory, Internet speed, etc. I also tend to manage by exception – meaning that I don’t need to check under the hood unless there is a problem (or a potential problem), and then I want an alert telling me about it. I’m sure you need and value the info shown, but for me, I almost never see my desktop – it is covered by the windows of apps I have open and actively using. I’m not disparaging this idea or approach, but it is a great example of how each of us can value different things. Right my top processes are iTunes (10 - 12 % although it's not doing anything, fuckin' itunes), activitymonitord (duh), kernel_task and transmisson.Jimmy, thanks for sharing. If you see a process that is not something you are actively using (browser, ITunes) is using more than, say 15% of your cpu, try to find out what it does and wether other people have had that problem. If it's not geektool, it might be some other process: Activity Monitor (you can sort by CPU usage) will show you that too. I used to have a lot of stuff on there too, but I noticed I didn't use it very much and it was taking more cpu than I wanted it to, so now I just have the load averages in the bottom corner next to my Dock so I can see when there's something taking a lot of cycles (and kill it when it's not supposed to) Not doing too much (do you really need the weather when you can put a widget on your dashboard which has the same thing but prettier and with less work?) In case you didn’t know, GeekTool is a very powerful system preferences module that lets you do all sorts of cool. Since 3.0 you can also set a timeout on commands. Unix geeks everywhere rejoice GeekTool is now available in the Mac App Store. If it never stops, well: there's your problem. If it's more than say, a second or two, and it isn't downloading anything, think about wether you really need it. Open up a terminal and check how long every script runs for. Not using applescript ones at a short interval, as they will take longer to run because they launch the environment everytime you run them.Ĭhecking for scripts that go haywire. If you see geektool acting up, cpu-cycle or memory-wise, you can decrease geektool's activity byĭecreasing the intervals at which the scripts are run. Check your processes with Activity Monitor.
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