![]() The Dock, showing the Trash icon on the right Drag the app to the Trash, or select the app and choose File > Move to Trash.Or use Spotlight to find the app, then press and hold the Command (⌘) key while double-clicking the app in Spotlight. Most apps are in your Applications folder, which you can open by clicking Applications in the sidebar of any Finder window. To delete an app that didn’t come from the App Store, use the Finder instead. Apps that don’t show an X button either didn’t come from the App Store or are required by your Mac. Click the X button next to the app that you want to delete, then click Delete to confirm.Press and hold the Option (⌥) key, or click and hold any app until the apps jiggle.Or swipe right or left with two fingers on your trackpad to show the next or previous page. If you don’t see the app in Launchpad, type its name in the search field at the top of the screen.You can also pinch closed with your thumb and three fingers on your trackpad. To open Launchpad, click it in the Dock or open it from your Applications folder. ![]() I’ve packaged up my geeklets, nerds, and other items for download - take ’em if you’d like ’em.Launchpad offers a convenient way to delete apps that were downloaded from the App Store. To get lists of events and tasks/to-do’s from the OS X calendar database (the same one iCal uses) you’ll need to download and install icalBuddy prior to setting up your geeklet. GeekTool was used for displaying my iCal events. Tried the same thing in GeekTool but with every change to the font another instance of the text would display, a bit odd but that could be an undiscovered bug I ran into. Just had to code in the typeface, font color, and font size after discovering that. The static title on this was more troublesome that expected but with a little toying around I found that linking to a plain text file from Nerdtool was the most effective method. Once that was complete it was just a matter of serving the files locally, linking to the HTML file with Nerdtool, setting the refresh rate, and adjusting the window transparency to match that of the date/time stamp. CalendarView seemed like the perfect candidate for attaining my goal, so I set my skills to reworking the CSS and removing some of its dynamic functions from the Javascript file. Now it was just a matter of locating a configurable web based calendar that had the the right feature set for my needs. What next? I almost gave up on this one and used the GeekTool method, but then I stumbled across Nerdtool - and found something attractive in its feature set: it can display web content. Both of the above are solid, high-quality apps and are definitely recommended if you have the need to run several Widgets on your desktop. There are however, third party apps, Amensty Singles and Amnesty Widget Browser, that can do the heavy lifting and display Widgets at the desktop level in exchange for a little of your folding money. One big problem with this method: the Widget hovers over the top of all other application windows, not really conducive for prolonged use. The next idea was to run the iCal Dashboard Widget on the desktop using a well known developer’s workflow and some making some alterations to its CSS code to make it fit my style of choice. Not very stylish and colorizing the various parts proved to be too much of a challenge for my abilities. I started with a GeekTool calendar but was discouraged with having to use a fixed width font. This was, by far, the most challenging section to nail down. The font is Archer Bold, colors were borrowed from the iCal Dashboard Widget. All, with the exception of the background, are terminal based commands set to refresh at regular intervals. ‘Day’, ‘Date’, ‘Time’, ‘am/pm’, and the transparent background are individual code snippets arranged as a cohesive unit. Let’s break this down by section by section… Date and Time StampĮverything in this part is powered by GeekTool. While there are other methods of attaining a similar arrangement, these items, in tandem, provided the best features for my needs and sense of style. Here’s a screenshot showcasing the results of my efforts: a combination of elements assembled from GeekTool 3.0, Nerdtool 0.8, and CalendarView 1.2. Not a huge bother in the overall scheme of things and perhaps not an insurmountable problem, but I went with the thought of trying some alternative ideas since that was the one and only widget I had in place. The trade-off was my embedded desktop calendar served up by Yahoo!® Widgets didn’t move from one space to another. The plus side of this arrangement allowed me retire an ancient, bulky monitor and keyboard from my workspace less clutter makes Scott a Happy Boy™. I recently started using Spaces on my iMac at the day job to create a dedicated environment for accessing my Windows systems via Microsoft Remote Desktop.
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