Put News On Your Desktop With GeekTool
Fri, Mar 13th, 2009
Mac OS X only: Reader Rodolfo Novak posts a useful script to add RSS feeds to your desktop using the GeekTool desktop overlay tool.
Yesterday Rodolfo showed us how to put the current weather conditions on your desktop, and today he's back with a shell script to parse an RSS feed and display it in plain text. Just like yesterday's script, this can be used anywhere with access to the Bash shell and common *nix commands, including Cygwin for Windows. The text output can then be added to the desktop using GeekTool for the Mac—but enterprising readers could modify it to work with Conky on Linux or Samurize on Windows.
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