Tweets on the desktop with GeekTool
As reported on TUAW yesterday, a reader named Ben G light of my recent art show iCal events and to-dos on the desk and took a step further. Inspired by iCalBuddy, wrote a command line utility called twitterbuddy rather than watch the last tweets of people behind you. How is it on your computer is more or less the same process as iCalBuddy.
Once you have downloaded twitterbuddy, double-click the file to install install.command. To test its operation, will open a new Terminal window and type twitterbuddy -h. This should provide the following options:
As you can see, typing twitterbuddy -u yourusername -p yourpassword -n 5 -t Tweets will display the last 5 tweets you have received, with the title “Tweets”. After perfecting your settings in Terminal, adding the command to GeekTool is easy. As with iCalBuddy, the only subtlety is that you have to use the full path, as shown below:
/usr/local/bin/twitterbuddy -u macosxtips -p ******** -n 5 -t Tweets
For help setting up GeekTool and formatting your output, check out the iCal on the Desktop tip, as everything is the same. Many thanks to Ali Rantakari, the deveoper of iCalBuddy and Benjamin Goering, the developer of twitterbuddy for all their hard work.
[Source]
