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iStat Menus Monitors Your Entire System from Your Menubar
Posted by Adam Pash at 7:00 AM on June 7, 2008
Mac OS X only: Donationware application iStat menus monitors your Mac from your menu bar—everything from CPU and memory use to system temperature and a better date and time interface. We've mentioned iStat menus once before, but it just saw a significant update including a better interface, new Leopard-only features, and improved monitoring. The app is totally customizable, meaning you only include the stats you want to track in your menu bar (but including everything would mean a lot of menu bar clutter). iStat menus is donationware, Mac OS X only.
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Kirk
Posted July 2, 2008 9:41 PM
While this article does not apply to me (Windows and Gentoo linux only) thank you for putting the OS detail up front instead of buried in the text, or at article's end.
NeoXY
Posted 7:45 AM 7/6/08
This is absolutely brilliant. If you configure it just right, you can actually make the Date & Time display from iStat look exactly like OSX, except with so much more functionality!
Brilliant. I absolute adore it.
NeoXY
rizzle
Posted 8:16 AM 7/6/08
@mocho22: I use iStat Menus for Mac, and Winbar for PC. [winbar.nl] It hasn't been updated in FOREVER. But it still works, but get 1.2.95, not the Winbar2 beta (never finished)
rizzle
mocho22
Posted 7:57 AM 7/6/08
I wish there was something like this for windows xp.
mocho22
jstark101
Posted 8:33 AM 7/6/08
I use the iStat Pro widget instead. The menu looks potentially crowded with all the features enabled.
jstark101
Zundfolge
Posted 8:21 AM 7/6/08
oops ... forgot the link
[widgets.yahoo.com]
Zundfolge
Zundfolge
Posted 8:20 AM 7/6/08
@mocho22:
You can always download the Yahoo Widget Engine (formerly Konfabulator) and there are a ton of widgets that do much the same thing (only not from the taskbar).
Zundfolge
helixed
Posted 9:56 AM 7/6/08
Hey, does anybody know how to move around the menu bar items? I can't get the clock to move over by my spotlight icon.
helixed
Ray
Posted 10:34 AM 7/6/08
Command+left click drag will reorder icons
Ray
KurticusMaximus
Posted 2:38 PM 7/6/08
I <3 iStat Menu.
I should probably start using it for time/date, but I still like Fuzzyclock. But it's great having a nice little place to see what's up with my system at a glance.
Two thumbs way up.
KurticusMaximus
helixed
Posted 4:35 PM 7/6/08
@Ray: Thanks
helixed
Myles
Posted 11:58 PM 7/6/08
The time/date replacement is amazing! Yay for calendar.
Myles
ICEBreaker
Posted 7:25 PM 8/6/08
It's really one of the best software out there! Only problem I had is that for iMacs with little RAM (1GB), then for some reason, the temperature monitor really slows down the system. This is on the iStat BEFORE the recent upgrade. I don't know if this issue still exist since I've upgraded more RAM now and do not notice performance issues.
ICEBreaker
zranch
Posted 7:47 PM 8/6/08
I am new to hotkeys and love it. I am experimenting, with a task I need to do over and over.
I need to tab through a web screen, and copy about 10 fields of data to temporary buffers. Then switch to different web page and paste in that data in to different fields on the new page.
The problem is copying in to 10 temporary variables or buffers, and then, pasting it back. Anyone know of a script I can adapt to do this?
Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks,
zranch
tmorriso
Posted 10:17 AM 7/6/08
There may be another way to move them around, but the only way I have found is to just un-click each item in the preferences page, so they vanish from the menu bar, then turn them back on in the order you wish them to appear, from right to left.
tmorriso