Name: NerdTool
Rating: 5 (5 reviews)

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App requirements:

Intel 32
PPC 32
Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later

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12 Reviews of NerdTool

Filou53

24 July 2014

Version: 0.8.1

Broken link !

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echix

09 July 2013

NerdTool v. 0.8.1 is INTEL-only!

Excellent Geektool replacement, we are fortunate that the developer took on this project. Easier to use, better interface, better performance with far less memory, and several new features over the original geektools - my favorite is customizable ansi escape colors. Can't figure out a way quickly get an item to refresh when tweaking a script though, have to switch to another log and back again, maybe someone can enlighten me or maybe the dev. can add a refresh button. Also would love to see an option for rounded corners.

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Orytek

22 August 2011

Thanks for keeping this updated.

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Anosachenko

25 July 2011

Version: 0.8

Doesn't work under Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)

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Great job! Just one request: Can you make it so that "Stay On Top" places the tool above the menubar?

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I'm still experiencing the same problem as @MRK below. New log messages don't appear on a new line, but instead get added on the same line after previous message (if there's space). While running main app, it's all worky, but when quitting it and running the 'daemon' app, the problem appears. I'm using NerdTool 0.6 on a MacBook Pro mid 2009 OSX 10.5.7 and the log file I'm referring to (haven't tried anyone else) is the /var/log/system.log file, setup to be viewed in full screen (i.e. all the way until it hits the exposé borders on all sides).

NerdTool displays the system.log file correctly when the main app is running. When I quit the app, all further lines from the log file are concatenated to the end of the last line without any breaks. When I start the app again, it redraws the log correctly with line breaks.

I was looking at this as a replacement for MkConsole but 0.6 doesn't seem to respect the font size setting. It also took me a while to figure out that I have to toggle the logfile on and off before any font changes apply. This needs to be more intuitive, IMHO.

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simply put, it's a remixed geektool that uses less ram and has handy features like tick box option for expose border, magnetizing your log fields so they cling to each other. The best bit is the one window interface which uses today's interface conventions to put everything that geektool was into one window making it easier to set up.

so what does your version of geektool offer over the original?

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