Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh
CPU History: ultra-lightweight CPU monitor for your OS X Dock
by Jay Hathaway Jul 9th 2008 at 3:00PM
What's red and green and only uses 96k of disk space? CPU History. It's a lightweight CPU monitor that sits in the Dock on your Mac, and gives you a quick visual readout on how hard your processor is working. It's customizable, easy to read, and won't put a big drain on your system.So why not Activity Monitor? Well, if you're just going to use it as a display in the dock, it's using way more system resources than you need. Its Dock readout also isn't as customizable as the one in CPU History, which lets you set the update interval, the width of the bars in the CPU graph, and the size of the icon in the Dock. The latest version also shows separate graphs for multi-core processors. It doesn't really do much, but CPU History gets its very specific job done with minimal hassle.
[via Daring Fireball]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
