macfidelity

Today i found a quite small but powerful application for both PPC and Intel Macs in the web, called “Menumeters”.

According to Versiontracker it is:

MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X. Although there are numerous other programs which do the same thing, none had quite the feature set I was looking for. Most were windows that sat in a corner or on the desktop, which are inevitably obscured by document windows on a PowerBook’s small screen. Those monitors which used the menubar mostly used the NSStatusItem API, which has the annoying tendency to totally reorder my menubar on every login.

The MenuMeters monitors are true SystemUIServer plugins (also known as Menu Extras). This means they can be reordered using command-drag and remember their positions in the menubar across logins and restarts. MenuMeters is open source freeware released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

After installation you can access the application in your System Preference Panel. After 2-5 minutes it will be completly configured and display several interesting informations in your main panel, at the top of your desktop.
I am using it to display Network-, RAM- and Disk-Usage. CPU would we possible too, but from my point of view the Apple Activity Monitor does this job very well.

Some Links:

• Project page
• Download at Versiontracker

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