Menumeters
Clone the git repo, open MenuMeters.xcodeproj, and build the target MenuMeters. This will create an independent app which runs outside of System Preferences. 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 laptop's small screen. Apr 08, 2008 Alex, this is decent, but the main feature I'd want is the network throughput with up/down arrows like MenuMeters, would it be difficult to add that feature? Edit: Looks like NetSpeedMonitor is exactly what I was looking for. 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 laptop's small screen. MenuMeters was our previous pick here and it’s still a solid system monitor if you don’t mind the fact it takes up a ton of space in your menubar. It can do everything Monity can do and more.
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while menumeters works in panther, and your preferences for it stick, at startup/login you need to manually turn it on each time. Call of duty mobile free download mac. this kind of sucks, but settings the menumeters pref pane as a startup item isn't too big of a hassle.
MenuMeters 1.1 has a bug on Panther that prevents it from working correctly if its installed to '/Users//Library/PreferencePanes' When installed to that location you will need to reenable the MenuMeters after every login (the settings do not properly persist across logout/login).Hope that helps.
A fix for this is being developed and should be available in the next few days. In the meantime you can install to '/Library/PreferencePanes/' and MenuMeters will work properly.
I confirm it works flawlessly when installed in /Library/PreferencePanes/
I was a bit surprised when I read it didn't work in panther!
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Lecter, Thanks for this hint. It drives me insane to switch it back on everytime I restart or log out. This pane is the best donationware utility for the mac ever.
I've had the same problem, but after moving the MenuMeters items around in the menu bar (holding down the commad-key and draging the items with the mouse), Panther remebered to load the MenuMeters during the next startup.
This, and UptimeInMenubar go on every OS X Server I set up. I find them both indispensable.
~Philly
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Just FYI but menu meters shows your up time as well. If you click on the CPU gauge it is part of the information that is displayed in the drop down.
I like and use MenuMeters, but the only thing I dislike about it is the too-large space at the left of the numbers in the menu bar. Your image shows it perfectly: it doesn't need to be that big. At the *most* you only need three digits to the left of the decimal, since it should switch from kb to KB to MB to GB. Make it smaller! Or else give me the option of putting the icon at the very left of the menu bar, no matter waht.
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too bad it doesnt work with Panther.
At least, it doesnt start up. I have to go and turn on the meters when I restart (rarely). It works otherwise.. just doesnt appear when logging in.
Menumeters is cool, but I wish the display looked a bit better. I changed all the colors into various shades of gray so it stands out less, but it's still not 'pretty'. (I'm glad the author got it to work well before worrying about looking good, but maybe now it's time to make it look good too.)
Coming from a Linux background, I'm still getting used to OS X, but one application I was particularly pleased to see playing nice with OS X is gKrellM (http://www.gkrellm.net). It needs X11, but provides almost endless customizibility for system monitoring.
While I love MenuMeters on my notebook I have found that I am liking iPulse more and more. It is a lot 'prettier' and while it does take up desktop space, it shows a tremendous amount of information in a small amount of space.
I agree. I have tried and paid for a number of system utilities, but iPulse is really the most space efficient and comprehensive. It does everything that I was previously using 5 applications to do.
iPulse is incredible- probably the most elegant and interesting solution to a tricky problem. Highly recommended. I bought it!
I agree wholeheartedly. iPulse is *fantastic*.
If you haven't tried it, read jade's review at Ars Technica.
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The best thing about this is that the source is available. I didn't like the extra space between the net graph and throughput numbers, so I just fixed it myself! I also removed the 1 pixel baseline in the graph and reversed the 'opposed' mode Rx/Tx so they match the labels. And added support for recognizing the 7457 in my AlBook. (patches submitted back to the author for merging into the trunk.)