What the exact number indicates isn’t all that important. Under normal, idle load it sits around 1.50, but when I’m encoding a video or doing other intensive work it jumps into the 50s or more. You can’t see it in the screenshot, but on this one, if an application reaches a certain threshold it turns yellow and then red, providing a visual warning for me.ĬPU load gives a single numeric indicator of how hard the computer is working. The next geeklet provides a list of top RAM processes, the 10 applications using the most memory, which lets me see at a glance a bit of what my computer is doing under the hood, as does the next geeklet that show the top CPU processes, the applications using the central processor. Five more geeklets provide current temperature outdoors, high and low for the day plus brief forecast, current weather, and extended 7-day forecast. What might you want such a program to do for you? For starters here’s what I have on my desktop:įour separate geeklets make up the date and time block. Here’s what the geeklets look like when the program is open.Īnd when the program is closed and they’re operating normally underneath. Geektool is a fun Mac app that lets you place a web image, the contents of a text file, or the results of a shell script–what the program calls “geeklets”– on the desktop, on top of your selected wallpaper, but under all your open applications and documents. But I got several people asking me about the Geektool stuff visible on the desktop. Someone had been asking for people to post the image and list the menubar apps they had running. I recently posted a screenshot of my MacBook Pro’s desktop on the Google+ community for the Mac Power Users podcast.
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