Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Productivity, Freeware
iStat Nano - OS X Widget of the Day
by Emily Price Feb 7th 2007
- CPU
- Memory
- Hard Drives
- Bandwidth
- IP and external IP
- Fan Speeds
- Battery
- CPU Temperature
iStat posts
Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Freeware
iStat Pro 3.1
by Jay Savage Sep 30th 2006
We don't talk much about OS X dashboard widgets here. Honestly, most of them aren't worth talking about. iStat pro is a little different, though: this freeware widget is actually useful. It's one-stop shopping for everything you want to know about your system at a glance, from uptime, to capacities and usage for all your disks, to battery health--in addition to charge, of course--for your laptop, to network throughput, to ips for all your network adapters. There's the usual stat geekery as well: uptime, load average, cpu%, and a "processes" section that basically heads the first five or so items from top for that quick stat fix. If you're on a PPC machine, there are some additional features, including processor temp and fan speed monitoring.The 3.1 update released yesterday adds improved support for iDisk stats, the "Battery Health" section, the ability to hide widgets from the processes list--you already knew Dashboard was a CPU hog--and assorted bug fixes.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
