Subliminal Geeklet Collection

Presenting to you my collection of geeklets:

Date

Time

Local Weather

Battery Status

Network Speed

Design Principle

I wanted a clean way to have the most important information stick out and be visible at a glance. Supporting information could be displayed in a visual hierarching by changing the font and font size.

Fonts in use are Lubalin Graph and Heiti SC

Date

The date, followed by the month, followed by a line with a day list, and the current day highlighted with an underscore.

Time

Simple 12h hour:minute format, with a subtle highlight for the AM/PM indicator

Local Weather

Current temperature is the key information item, followed by the current condition and locaiton details. To customize this for your locale, you need to update the associated geeklets curl Yahoo Weather API URL.

http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=2295316&u=c

The highlighted portion in the link is the WOEID code of the city you want the weather forecast for.

Battery

Displays battery percentage, status, charge time remaining, time required for full charge if on AC power.

Network Speed

BETA This is experimental at this stage. Key item is the upload rate, followed by the download rate of your network in KB/s.