Feel free to leave any comments below! I almost thought about uploading the Photoshop file, but the idea is so simple that I’m sure anyone else could figure out how to duplicate it. If you do want help or tips, though, feel free to ask!

iTunes controller

This is a custom BowTie theme I made after modifying one of the default themes. I called it Chris because I didn’t ever plan on releasing it. I have since finished it, and you can grab it here.

Time

There are just normal date commands:

• Time: date “+%l:%M:%S %p”
• Date: date +%A; date “+%B %d, %Y”

Calendar

The day header is just static text. The actual calendar is this command:

• Calendar: cal | grep -v “[a-zA-Z*] [0-9]” | grep -v “Su”

Weather

This geeklet uses a php file to grab the image off of Yahoo’s weather site. I used the script found here to do this.

• Temperature: curl –silent “http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=46750″ | grep -E ‘(Current Conditions:|F<BR)’ | sed -e ‘s/Current Conditions://’ -e ‘s/<br \/>//’ -e ‘s/<b>//’ -e ‘s/<\/b>//’ -e ‘s/<BR \/>//’ -e ‘s///’ -e ‘s/<\/description>//’

Network

This section is to see my IP addresses for both my local and school networks. Here at college, I have to stay under a daily upload and download limit, so I load in my current daily up/down stats off of DD-WRT on my router.

• IP Addresses: bash script
• Bandwidth: curl -s http://root:admin@192.168.1.1/ttgraph.cgi?$(date +”%m-20%y” | sed “s/^[0]//”) | grep -E $(date “+d%d” | sed -e “s/^\d[0]/d/” -e “s/$/\”/” -e “s/^/\”/”) | awk ‘ { dl = $8;ul = $12; printf(“Router DL: %d MB\nRouter UL: %u MB\n”, dl, ul); }’

Twitter

This is another bash script. Make sure you set your own username and password. Here ya go.

Gmail

Yay, another bash script!. Be sure you put in your own account details.

And that’s it! Let me know if you have any questions about it in the Comments below.