What is Geek Tool? To put it simply, GeekTool is a Brilliant apparatus that will bring your desktop to life in ways you wished you could do before but just never knew how, or an easy way how.
Here at DamnPc.com we give this app 4 ½ stars. Why just 4 ½ you say if we think this is a brilliant app? Well, even as great of an app this is, it can still use some minor fixes. GeekTool has been brought to us by a company named Tynsoe you can find this product and others by them at http://projects.tynsoe.org The newest release of Geek Tool is 3.0 and if you’re on Snow Leopard then when you install Geek Tool it will be in your Pref Pane, if you’re running Lion then you will find GeekTool within your Applications folder.
Now to explain how Geek Tool works it’s a app that helps you display varies amounts of information about your computer on your desktop. But it’s not just limited to your computers information. You can also display weather on your desk top with a changing weather icon to represent the current conditions in your area. You can Even display a live Doppler radar on your desk top, calendar, up-time, HD usage, CPU processing, slide shows, the lists goes on! The way all this works is GeekTool has 3 Modes, File Mode,Shell mode to launch custom scripts or commands like “df” to check space left on file systems or “up-time” to monitor load on your machine. Finally, image mode helps you monitor band with usage, CPU load Memory availability etc.
This App seriously has endless possibilities, the only thing I found wrong or didn’t like was the fact that you can’t rotate anything. You can’t rotate an image you place on your desk top or any of the shells for that matter which is really disappointing because it limits where and how you place the information. Other than the inability to rotate the shell I see nothing wrong with this App and would love to see how far others have taken Geek Tools capabilities, your imagination is the Limit! I will leave you with some examples of desktops I designed using the wonderful app that is GeekTool.
