![]() ![]() Plus, GPU memory and processor usage on supported Macs, and the active GPU can be shown in the menubar. CPU usage can be tracked by individual cores or with all cores combined, to save menubar space. Realtime CPU graphs and a list of the top 5 CPU resource hogs. Our menubar and dropdown menus are now localised for Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian. ![]() Daylight is now indicated in the clock face (it even fades near sunrise and sunset). Improved GPU monitoring, including active GPU in menubar.Ī vastly improved time menu, with current time, sunrise, noon, sunset, dawn, dusk, sun azimuth, sun altitude, light map and more for over 120,000 cities. Wi-Fi stats, including channel, signal to noise ratio and many more. ![]() Upload and download activity is also shown per-app, making it far easier to track down the biggest bandwidth hogs.įar more detailed network information, including router address, subnet mask, DNS and MAC address. IStat Menus 5 features read and write disk activity on a per-app basis. Menubar graphs can now use dark backgrounds, improving legibility. iStat Menus 6 sports a completely new design - new menubar icons, new dropdown menus, and the app and icon itself have all been redesigned to be cleaner, clearer and more at home on Yosemite. Included are 8 menu extras that let you monitor every aspect of your system. There are likely other apps and services that will push forecasts to me, but with iStat Menus already a must-have on my Mac, I call the new Weather features a winner.IStat Menus lets you monitor your system right from the menubar. Having the temperature range pushed to me first thing in the morning feeds all that. And I’m an information junkie, to be sure. I’m just always curious about the temperature, and use the data to decide what to wear, whether or not to open or shut windows, and sometimes to decide on activities. I have it on a widget in the upper left corner of my watch face. A Note on įun fact about me: the second most-used aspect of my Apple Watch is checking the temperature. You can buy version 6 for $18, or upgrade from previous versions for $9.99. I consider it a must-have utility on my Macs. I think their clock and calendar is better than the built-in one for macOS, too. I’ve always used it for CPU monitoring, RAM usage, and network traffic monitoring. It’s an app that puts a host of data in your menu bar. Weather Preferences in iStat Menus 6 iStat Menus 6 That’s one of the great things about iStat Menus in the first place, and Weather is just as customizable as anything else. In the preferences you can buy more frequent updates (which I haven’t done) and customize the data that’s displayed. Here’s what that looks like: Weather pulldown menu in iStat Menus 6 Turning to the Yahoo! Weather app in iOS is so ingrained in me, I haven’t remembered that basic forecast and conditions are there on my Mac. There’s a pulldown menu, too, which I haven’t used that much. Weather is a new feature in iStat Menus 6. Can you feel the waves of indulgent satisfaction rolling off me? iStat Menus 6 and Weather Let’s take a gander: Forecast for Today Notification from iStat Menus 6’s Weather featureīoom! There it is. It feeds my addiction to incoming information in a very satisfactory manner. It’s a small thing, to be sure, but when I get up to work, I’ve found myself immediately drawn to it, sitting all sweet and pretty in my Mac’s Notifications. The title gets right to it: I love the weather forecast notification in iStat Menus 6. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |