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TipsI recently recorded my third screencast for Chris Pirillo over at YouTube.com/lockergnome. This is the post from his blog that goes along with the video, Enjoy!
Billy has done several screencasts in the past for our channels, and has received some pretty good feedback. Today, he’s going to show you how to monitor your system if you’re using OS X, using an application called iStat Menus. Remember, if you want to submit a screencast for possible use on our channels, see the information in the link at the beginning of this description.
iStat Menus can monitor many different things on your system, including:
- CPU – Realtime CPU graphs and a list of the top 5 CPU resource hogs. CPU usage can be tracked by individual cores or with all cores combined, to save menubar space.
- Disk Usage – See used or free space for multiple disks in your menubar. More detail for all your disks is only a click away.
- Memory – Memory stats for your menubar, shown as used andfree memory or wired, active, inactive and free. The memory dropdown menu shows a list of the top 5 memory hogs, as well as other useful info.
- Disk Activity – Detailed disk I/O in your menubar, including a variety of different read and write indicators.
- Network – The realtime graph will keep your finger on the pulse of what data’s being sent and received for all network connections.
iStat Menus is fully customizable, and each menu extra comes with many different display modes, each featuring customizable colours, font sizes and widths.
Thanks for an excellent screencast, Billy! This little application is sure to come in handy for many Mac users!
About the Author: Billy
I have Been using computers all my life and have always been good with them. I am the owner and main blogger of BillyMcGovern.com. Follow me on Twitter @bllymcgvrn123 & Subscribe to me on YouTube
