Geek out your Twitter
I’m a big command line geek at heart, so when I discovered GeekTools a few years back I was in love. GeekTools is a OS X application that allows you to run linux commands and display them on your desktop background. Very l33t h4x0r type stuff.
With my love for Twitter burning these days, I really wanted to get a nice twitter feed running in GeekTools on my desktop.
Here is how I did it:
Start by downloading this script here (thanks to Mobilitee). Once you have it on your Mac, move it to any directory you want. Open the script in your favored text editor and replace <username> and <password> with your Twitter user name and password.
Next you need to go into terminal and cd to the directory where you saved the script and run chmod +x twitter.sh. Now the script is ready to be run, you can try running it in the command line just to see if it works.
Now you can open up GeekTools which you can download here. Create a new group and call it Twitter. Select the Shell in drop down, and under command tab type in:
echo “Twitter:”; DIRECTORY/TO/SCRIPT/twitter.sh
Of course directory/to/script should be replaced with the directory where you saved twitter.sh in. Next you can go into Colors and Fonts etc and mess around with it. Also change the location to have it pop up where you want it.
If you have any questions, please feel free to leave them in the comments.
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