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A hands-on look at iStat Menus 3

by Steven Sande (Apr 27th, 2010)

During the summer of 2008, I was using my MacBook Air outside on a very hot (102°F in the shade) day when I noticed that the laptop seemed to have slowed down to the point that it was almost unusable. Fortunately, I had installed iSlayer's iStat, and I was able to tell at a glance that one of ...

Monitor your Mac's health with CheckUp

by Dave Caolo (Sep 4th, 2008)

Geeks love to try out new applications, but hardcore nerds (like me) like installing new utilities. At first glance, CheckUp by App4Mac is a system monitor. Use it to keep track of your processor(s), RAM, disks, network activity and processes. But that's just the beginning. The UI is very nice. Each ...

The Iconfactory releases new iPulse jackets

by Dave Caolo (Mar 21st, 2006)

What fun are your utilities if you can't dress them up, right? The Iconfactory has released four new skins (or "jackets") for iPulse, their system monitoring tool (I personally like Scarab). With iPulse, you can monitor disk usage, CPU usage, system load, motherboard temperature and a lot ...