Now those who know me also know I am an Apple nut. I will cover my love affair with Cupertino in another posting but this intermittent series will just highlight some of the little extra programmes that make using Macs so much more enjoyable than hacking around in Windows land.
One simple little programme that I have constantly turned on is iStats Menu. It sits in the System Preferences app but displays in the top bar of Mac OS X. You can choose what exactly you want to monitor, as I work on a laptop I am conscious of the temperature of my system rather more than if I used a desktop so one stat is CPU temperature but if you click on it then it also displays the current temperatures for all the key components of the Dual Core system.
I also have the network monitor enabled, which shows KB per second both in and out. Again you can click on it for further information including the ability to launch both Network Preferences and the Network Utility, which is very useful for me as I move from one wireless environment to another.
The final one that I will highlight is the HDD monitor, this actually only shows the amount of space used, again given I have a laptop with a fairly small HDD this is quite important for me. I also have a number of external drives linked at home with my iTunes collection, movies, photographs, etc. and if you click on the HDD monitor it will show you the used space and the available space on all the drives you have attached.
This great little programme is available from iSlayer.com along with a number of other useful items.
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