While this may seem redundant since OS X already has a date & time menubar item by default, this one has several improvements. The one notable exception is the date & time monitor. Seriously, those 'skins' are nothing more than a color, why don't they just let the user choose what RGB they like? The 'skins' that come with the program are pretty good, but if you don't happen to like any of the colors that are provided you are a bit out of luck. The only thing you can do is exclude various elements from the display altogether. The menus themselves are less customizable and you can't really change the way they look. You can make the little menubar displays quite big should you wish it (up to 120 pixels wide), but you can also keep them small. You can choose from quite a number of display methods, either text based, graph based, or a mixture of the two. Like other such programs, customization in iStat Menus deals mostly with the little icons that you get in the menubar.
ISTAT MENUS FOR WINDOWS BLUETOOTH
The only thing that stands out is the Bluetooth monitor as well as the date & time one, which is simply great. You can turn on menubar items for the various monitoring tools, which include: a CPU usage monitor with 7 display modes and multiple core support a memory usage monitor with 4 display modes, page ins/outs and swap usage display disk usage and activity monitor with 6 display modes, the ability to hide disks you don't want to see a network monitor with current and total bandwidth, peak bandwidth, IP addresses and ability to hide interfaces you don't want to see temperature and fan speed monitors with 2 display modes, ability to hide sensors you don't want to see Bluetooth monitor that lets you control Bluetooth status as well as keep an eye on the battery level of your Apple wireless keyboard or mouse and last but not least, a calendar and world clock that lets you see the time in multiple locations around the world.Īll in all this is pretty much standard, giving you exactly what you would expect form such an application. iStat Menus plays it discreetly and lets you activate what you want, when you want it. Usually this sort of program goes all out and activates everything from the get go, giving you lots of new items regardless of whether you want them or not. The first pleasant surprise I had after installing iStat Menus was that my menubar was unchanged. Seriously giving MenuMeters a run for its money, this little gem looks good, works well and is highly customizable. The latest addition to the iStat family is Menus, a preference pane that lets you display all the information about your computer in tiny, accessible menubar items. From application, to widgets and now to menubar items, iStat lets you see what you want, where you want it. Of all those programs out there, one stands out above all others when it comes to choice, iStat.
Fortunately, when it comes to monitoring applications there are many variations and you can always find something that suits you best. While things like CPU, memory and hard drive load may not be that important, network traffic is something that I generally always keep an eye on, to see how well downloads are going, why pages load slowly and if the lag-spikes are universal or just in that one application. Computer statistics are just plain useful.
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