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stabarinde

Geeking Out About GeekTool

Aug 25, 2009 16:05

Originally published at Dermot.Canniffe.Org. You can comment here or there.

I started toying with the idea of having a richer desktop about a month ago. I was inspired by all the wondrously rich and often pointless computer displays one sees in films (I don't mean Alien, rather Independence Day, Quantum of Solace, et al), where there's literally ( Read more... )

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call_waiting August 25 2009, 18:42:56 UTC

(I would love to learn how to create these compositions myself, so if anyone knows how, please let me know)

Quartz Composer comes with the dev tools, and is great fun to play around with, and lets you string things together in a pipeline graph-ical way. It's pretty snazzy actually.

stabarinde August 26 2009, 20:21:00 UTC

Oooh! Fabbydabbydo! :) Thanks for the link.

UI in movies anonymous August 26 2009, 05:57:53 UTC

One recent movie with a prominent snazzy UI was Iron Man. I liked the HUD in the suit, but his computer's morning call with a weather report and other goodies was great.

Re: UI in movies stabarinde August 26 2009, 20:22:16 UTC

Thank you Mr. Anonymous, whoever you are. I'd forgotten about IronDowneyJr. I should have remembered, since I've just bought it though. I think I'll go and ogle some movie UIs now. :)