mac-kurzundgut: MenuMeters 1.4b1 - CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools. (Free)

Dienstag, 1. September 2009

MenuMeters 1.4b1 - CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools. (Free)

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MenuMeters 1.4b1

MenuMeters is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for Mac OS 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 version 2.

WHAT'S NEW

Version 1.4b1 (public beta):

[FEATURE] Snow Leopard compatible Universal Binary (ppc, i386, x86_64).

[FEATURE] Includes MenuCracker 2.x for Snow Leopard and for better long-term compatibility with other menubar add-ons.

[FEATURE] Hide more inactive statistics on inactive network interfaces.

[FEATURE] Simplified Intel CPU naming ('Intel' not 80486).

[FEATURE] Support for IPv6 addresses in the network menu, based on patches from Smith Kennedy.

[CHANGE] Major code cleanup, fixing a number of obscure bugs and probably introducing some more.

[CHANGE] Changes to various menubar displays and text for readability and general cleanup. Removed various tweaky options (like disabling antialiasing) that haven't been relevant since very early OS X and aren't worth the maintenance cost.