Comments on: Geek Tools

By: PAM S

PAM S — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:03:03 +0000

pretty cool site.2 questions 1-need stepbystep help for rocketfish 3.5 usb 2.0 hd enc. kit. do i move jumper on hard drive? ’cause it won’t boot up.

2–motorola flip cell phone…broken…has all my pics on it…i need them….HELP!?

By: JIm

JIm — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:12:44 +0000

I use:

uptime

echo External IP: `curl -s http://checkip.dyndns.org/ | sed ‘s/[a-zA-Z/ :]//g’`

and the Twitter display (twitter.sh)

By: Ollie

Ollie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:01:01 +0000

Hi Chris, nice post and video – I’d suggest people to check out Rainmeter

It’s awesome – Love it on my system, monitoring cpu ram etc… also the availability of plugins is awesome, and quite diverse. Stream RSS feeds, webcams etc all to your windows desktop and embed it to the background of your desktop so it’s not clickable as you work.

It takes up hardly any memory, nice slimline program, kicks ass on the “vista sidebar” having once had the misfortune to have used that monstrous program. lol.

However I now use this on XP

Rainmeter – there is a good review of it on lifehacker, check it out

Cheers dude,

Fellow Geek – Ollie :D

By: Joelg88

Joelg88 — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:22:59 +0000

So that’s what that is. I first noticed that at the beginning of this month(november). Pretty geeky lol. its cool to see what apps are using the systems ram and whats spiking your CPU.

By: lilxkid24

lilxkid24 — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:39:09 +0000

Samurize is a similar product but its for windows too bad it doesn’t have the cool matrix green look

By: Rueben26

Rueben26 — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:16:58 +0000

I live for the second monitor at work. They force us to use Windows laptop, other screen is on Sun workstation (real work)

By: Outsanity

Outsanity — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 07:00:38 +0000

I usually keep my virtual Windows on the right monitor in my second space. I tried to tinker with that and I couldn’t get it to work. Looks useful, but it’s too advanced for me i guess.

By: Matt Smith

Matt Smith — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:56:53 +0000

I just stumbled on this very same tool about a half hour ago on Lifehacker. I looked at it, and said – “I’ll bet that’s what Chris uses on his second monitor” (as I’ve curiously seen the text before). Thanks for the system monitor commands too!