Study Skills & New Technology

Display iCal Data on Your Desktop [Video]

To keep my life organized, I write down everything in iCal. Sometimes I forget to check my calendar, but after installing these two programs, I now have both my calendar data and my To Do List, right on my desktop.

Check out my quick video to set it up on your computer.

calendar-on-desktop

Check out my first video on YouTube. Let me know what you think in the comments!

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Links:
GeekTool: http://bit.ly/279SJZ
iCalBuddy: http://bit.ly/papX

CODE (Scroll down to step 5 and 6): http://bit.ly/ibpv5

You can also just copy and paste the code from here:

iCal Data:
/usr/local/bin/icalBuddy -nc eventsToday | sed -e "s/*/--/" | sed -e "s/!/!!/"

To Do List Data:
usr/local/bin/icalBuddy -nc uncompletedTasks | sed -e "s/*/--/" | sed -e "s/!/!!/"

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One Comment

  1. Posted May 2, 2010 at 2:34 pm | Permalink

    I had heard of this before, but never took the time to check it out – thanks for the tutorial :)

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