[X4U] Website as desktop

[Fred Terry]

On 6/22/05 2:48 PM, "silvo conticello" <silvoc at tiscali.it> wrote:

> 
> On 22 Jun 2005, at 20:33, Paul Moortgat wrote:
> 
>> Someone who went from PC to Mac claims that he has a website as
>> desktop on his PC.  He asked me if this could be done on a Mac.  I
>> told him 'No' but ask you anyway.
> 
> there is surely (I've tried it, but as Timothy said, I got fed up very
> soon), but I don't remember the name
> silvo

There is a product called GeekTool that does it. Very stable under Panther
on my hacked Cube, but a bit flakey under Tiger on the TiBook. You can find
it here

http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/

I use it to display console logs on the desktop as well as the weather
radar. You can put whole web pages, though I tend to just grab the radar
picture

http://image.weather.com/images/maps/current/curwx_600x405.jpg

Have fun.

pf