Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Software, Cool tools, PowerBook, Troubleshooting, Developer
iStat menus 1.2 monitors your Mac's innards
New to this version is process monitoring, better temperature and fan support in G4 Powerbooks (like mine), and a disk activity graph that let's you monitor disk performance over time. For keeping an eye on what's happening under your Mac's hood, there's almost nothing better, and all the iStat stuff is free.
Of course, if you do use one of their apps, make sure to send them some cash to help them keep up the good work. Always support good software, people. Just like NPR, if you don't support it, you'll lose it.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
(01) said 10:25AM on 11-02-2007
First? Anyway, just installed the update. I loved the widget, but it's even better to have the info right on the menu bar. Support NPR!!!!
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Josh Wardell said 10:31AM on 11-02-2007
iStat Menus is prettier, but it still doesn't show number of accesses to VM like MenuMeters does. I use that all the time when something seems to freeze up--if that number is very high I know it is just paging from VM.
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David Owens said 11:13AM on 11-02-2007
sorry about the unfortunate remark about far left npr; I refuse to fund it so it will go away. I am surprised George Soros hasn't bought it yet.
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Mike said 1:16PM on 11-02-2007
Has anyone else noticed that Leopard is running cooler than Tiger on the Intel macs? I'm assuming that it's due to better use of the dual core architecture and optimized 64bit code for the OS and core Apps?
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James said 1:20PM on 11-02-2007
This is great. I never knew that this was an option. Just what I need. Something else to put into my menu bar. Thanks TUAW.
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James said 1:20PM on 11-02-2007
This is great. I never knew that this was an option. Just what I need. Something else to put into my menu bar. Thanks TUAW.
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Jeremy said 4:12PM on 11-02-2007
Looks really nice, but honestly, "8 separate and highly configurable menu extras" is exactly what my menu bar DOESN'T need. They probably won't even fit.
Why does every developer feel the need to put an icon up there????
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