Andrew’s Mac Tips Weblog

This I don’t get at all. Isn’t the whole point of a GUI to hide monospaced ugly clunky plain text? In the olden days, one of the ways Mac users would scoff Windows users was to say, “I can’t believe there’s a DOS box that you can call up. How last decade. How crude. Why would you want to?”

“In a nutshell, GeekTool embeds text command output, text files or images onto your Mac desktop automatically and constantly refreshes them at a rate you define. So instead of opening a command line and running top to see what process is slowing down your computer, GeekTool displays top output at all times, right on your desktop - without opening a Terminal window.”

Geek to Live: Monitor your Mac and more with GeekTool - Lifehacker