Five main advantages of iStat Menus 5
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
As many already know, yesterday came out the next version of the popular utility iStat Menus, whose main objective - the monitoring of various hardware and software components of the "apple" computers. From a long list of changes and improvements can be identified at least five reasons why users previous versions of the program should be updated, and those who are not familiar with iStat Menus, pay attention to this utility.
Reason 1. Detailed monitoring system
Menus to iStat Menus are somewhat similar to the remote control of the power plant. The program knows the status of each component in your computer, which is available programmatically. In sum, we obtain almost the hundreds of parameters, for which the program monitors in real time and displays a numeric format, or in the form of diagrams.
iStat Menus reads temperature values at various points (e.g., for each CPU core, the tubes cooling the walls of the housing and t. d.), the parameters of the current load on the processor, memory and a graphics system (for each program separately); the state of internal and external drives, detailed information about network connections, as well as the level of charge of all the available sources nutrition, including not only the built-in MacBook battery and an external UPS, but also batteries wireless mouse, keyboard, trackpad, and other similar periphery.
In addition, iStat Menus also works in detail, and with time, showing a world clock, a calendar (including problem of staff "Calendar» OS X), and the details of the sun and the moon (the time of sunrise, zenith, sunset; dusk and moments t. d.).
Reason 2. The flexibility to customize the functionality and appearance
From the abundance of iStat Menus settings in tweaking maniacs welling with tears of emotion. Each program allows you to place the indicator in the menu bar, turning it into a kind of dashboard. If you have a small screen, or you prefer a more compact solution, the entire Old can hide behind the application icon in the multi-tiered menu. But even here you can hide all the extra sensors, drives and network connections, details of which you are not interested (this, by the way, a new feature iStat Menus 5).
For the majority of "indicators" in the menu bar, you can also adjust the display settings, including the width and color charts. program overall color values are also provided in the general settings for all the diagrams in the menu bar. Drop-down the menu can be black if you prefer.
Reason 3. Compatible with OS X Mavericks and Yosemite
Before the release of OS X 10.10 is still two or three months, and iStat Menus is already fully prepared - fully compatible with new features like Yosemite, and the Mavericks. For example, the program has already been able to display a list of energy-intensive applications, the memory shows memory compression level and displays the data load in the new format (instead of the usual four parameters - the only one), and when switching Yosemite in dark mode, the tool automatically changes the color of your menu the black.
Reason 4. localized interface
Developers do not forget to include in the list of supporting Russian and Ukrainian languages, which can be switched not only by changing the language interface of system, but also through the main iStat Menus menu (so far only in Mavericks). Localization until basic, but soon the authors iStat Menus promised to take care of even the transfer of internal sensors names.
Reason 5. A whole bunch of other reasons
As mentioned above, the so-called "history of the magazine» iStat Menus 5 received a record long. It listed an extensive list of alterations and improvements, including the ability to import and export program settings, display a number of parameters system for each open application individually, the data read by each processor core, a load diagram for the video memory and a graphics card and so on and so like.
In short, iStat Menus is more than replacing regular "Status Monitor" on the part of the monitoring of parameters important for your own computer. It is worth to try the utility in action - it provides 14-day trial version. The full version is available at a price of $ 16 (or $ 10 when upgrading from previous versions of the application).
Go to the website iStat Menus