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Our New Widget xTemr


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·Nov 3, 2024

Hey guys, this is Mac Heads 101. This is a video on our new dashboard widget that we've made. Um, it is called XTimer. Um, it's not the best name in the world, but it does a lot of cool stuff. So let me explain what it does.

Um, it is a widget that lets you run a terminal command, website, or application. Um, so in the description of this video, there will be a link to download XTimer.dmg, and I'll just open it up. When it mounts, it'll just mount and you want to open it up and double click XTimer, click install. That will normally say install, then click keep.

And, um, here's XTimer. It doesn't look that great, but, um, it's very functional. What you do is normally I'd check this box. If you want great functionality, you type in a website, a terminal command, or an application, and it will run it. So first, I'll just test out a website: http:// you need to type http or https to let the computer know that you're typing in a website.

Um, then apple.com, and then you can hit enter or click run, and right here it starts up apple.com. So another thing, um, that's nice is when you're typing a command, you click escape and you'll hear that little beep, and that clears it. So now let's test out by typing the name of an application, say Safari. We just type Safari, and Safari opens up. Great!

Okay, and the last feature is running a terminal command. Like, say we type say space hi. Hi hi hi, so that's pretty cool. It'll just say hi. So, um, you can—I'm gonna do—uh, to explain about running applications. Like when you type Safari, normally applications like, um, say applications like System Preferences are all one word.

Like System Preferences is all one word. I'll have that in the description of this video, and I'll put an annotation up that says it. When you hit enter, System Preferences opens up. Um, so say you want to run something like Keychain Access. It's a pretty long name: key or k-e-y-c-h-a-i-n-a-c-c-e-s-s, all one word. But it works; it opens up Keychain Access.

So you can't type like System space Preferences. It just doesn't work; nothing will happen when you hit enter or click run. Um, but this is convenient if you're just like, "Okay, la di da da. Oh, Finder's not responding. Kill, oh Finder." You know what the hey—you can also like just kill all doc and say your parents have blocked Terminal for you.

Like, um, you can always go in and download this widget and use it to run commands without running with Terminal. So this is pretty cool. Um, I hope you like it. Uh, we love it. So I thank you for watching Mac Heads 101. Subscribe and goodbye!

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