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.
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, ...
