Widget Watch: miniStat 2
Here's a great widget I discovered earlier today. miniStat2 from Shock Widgets reports on system stats like battery life, CPU heat, CPU usage, free storage on mounted drives, memory usage and uptime. That's great, but what I like about miniStat2 is its interface. You can choose from several "skins" to match your machine, including iBook G4, Powerbook G4, both G4 and G5 iMacs, Mac mini and Powermac G5. Plus, you move from one report to the next by clicking on the "dock" in the widget's display. Informative and fun...what more could you want?The website claims that miniStat2 uses only 1% of CPU resources when updating, which it does constantly, and 10M of RAM at average. A single license will cost you $7.45US.
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Here's a great widget I discovered earlier today. miniStat2 from Shock Widgets reports on system stats like battery life, CPU heat, CPU...
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This is what i really don't like about the apple scene, everyone wants money even for the smallest thing they create. I think is a bit excessive to ask for money (even if it's as little as 7.5$, it's the principle) for an app that shows system stats... i know that if you don't need it you simply don't buy it, it's really easy... but it's something that if *I* was the coder i would have released for free, after all i doubt it was much more than a coding experiment with widgets... Oh, and Alex, how do you manage to shave off the dashboard? i found a little (free ;)) app that allows to disable all the single widgets, but the dashboard itself it's still there... Thanks! Marcello
August 19 2005 at 9:46 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyFor those who've sworn off Dashboard to regain vast swaths of memory, the system monitor of choice is iPulse: http://www.iconfactory.com/ip_home.asp iPulse is compact, uses very little CPU time or memory, and offers you a host of statistics about your machine in a compact and customizable view. Download it, love it, register it.
August 19 2005 at 8:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHot Apps on TUAW
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