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Here's a widget that nearly any geek would love. iStat pro is a Dashboard widget that keeps tabs on your system, reporting on CPU activity, memory, network status and information, temperature, fan activity, available disk space (on all connected drives) and more. Plus, it looks great while doing it. The interface is customizable and very easy to read. Definitely worth checking out.Holding the Command key (aka the Apple key) and pressing Tab will cycle through your open applications. It's easier to Cmd-Tab if you are Copy (Cmd-C) and Pasting (Cmd-V) to and from various applications.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Elliot said 3:05PM on 4-14-2006
Am I the only one that finds putting this stuff in the dashboard to be really incovenient? The menu bar is a much better place for this stuff, as it's always there for a quick glace without interupting anything (hey, I just checked the used/free of my ram while I was typing!). And don't get me started on checking your cpu usage through the dashboard...
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Thorn said 3:06PM on 4-14-2006
Yay. Wonder if the temp works on the MBPs?
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Ultim8Fury said 3:10PM on 4-14-2006
Yeah I much prefer menumeters ( http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/index.html )
Having this stuff on the dashboard doesn't really help a real geek if you have to know all the time what stuff is doing.
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Elliott Pogue said 3:22PM on 4-14-2006
Thorn, the temperatures don't work in iStat nano. Now, that doesn't mean iStat pro can't do it, but I'm just kinda guessing it doesn't work.
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Anton said 3:24PM on 4-14-2006
Temperature and fans support doesn't work on my MBP, unfortunately.
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Mark D. said 3:41PM on 4-14-2006
I use this widget, though I really prefer to use Activity Monitor for cpu monitoring, with the added bonus of having the seperate monitor and changable dock monitor for different information. This widget is just a nice follow-up for the trips to dashboard for notes or weather checks/gmail checks.
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TJ said 3:53PM on 4-14-2006
I'll stick to using miniStat2. To me is more smplistic and easy to understand. Offers all the info I'm concerned about and is skinable :)
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Jeffrey Lee said 3:54PM on 4-14-2006
The temperature and fans sections for iStat pro do not work on Intel Macs.
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Chris said 4:23PM on 4-14-2006
My Windows friends have always been very impressed by Dashboard. VERY. But they always ask So what else can you use it for? I think this is one of those Widgets that fits well into that What else can be done with it type of catagory.
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Craig said 4:42PM on 4-14-2006
I've tried them all and nothing makes me happier than iPulse.
http://www.iconfactory.com/ip_home.asp
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Peter Payne said 3:57AM on 4-15-2006
Remember, Dashboard is always better with Dashboard Quickstart. Another widget I like a lot is the dashboard terminal.
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Malfoy Roark said 12:34PM on 4-15-2006
My only complaint with istat is that it doesnt show multiple CPUs, it just takes an average I'm assuming.
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Lieven said 7:23PM on 4-15-2006
I wholeheartedly agree with Craig: there is really nothing that can beat iPulse. it's compact, complete and a beautiful information graphics showcase.
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