Mac OS X monitor Freebies List

Description: Battery Health Monitor is a free utility for PowerBook, iBook, and MacBook owners that monitors virtual all battery health parameters and displays them in an easy-to-read format.Battery Health Monitor displays your battery's original capacity, current capacity, current charge, number of charge cycles and more!What's new in this version:Dramatically improved compatibility with PowerBook G3 and G4 models using older version of Apple's battery update software.

Keywords: utility monitor virtual format free easy 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 3891 kb; Updated: 2008-08-26

Description: Temperature Monitor is an application to read out all accessible temperature sensors in Macintosh computers. The program can display and visualize the values measured by Mac OS X in a large variety of fashions. Among others, the following operations are supported:display in a default windowoutput in a screen display in front or in the background of the screentabular display in an overview windowdisplay in the menu-bardisplay in the Dock icongraphical display of short-term and long-term history curves in an unlimited number of windowsspeech outputdisplay of minimum and maximum valuesexport to text or CSV filesMoreover, the application can display additional technical information about your computer. Among other information this includes processor type, processor and bus frequencies, and manufacturing information.The application can read out the data only if your computer is equipped with the necessary sensors, and if Mac OS X can access them without needing third-party device drivers. Starting in summer 20...

Keywords: information application computer history monitor screen access data 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 3072 kb; Updated: 2008-06-24

Description: Temperature Monitor Widget Edition is the Dashboard version of its "bigger brother" Temperature Monitor. It is recommended that you use Temperature Monitor first before using the widget edition to learn more about the sensor equipment of your computer. The applications are designed to give you access to all temperature sensor readings Mac OS X uses to monitor and cool your computer.The widget allows you to select two of your computer's temperature sensors which should be displayed via Dashboard. The sensor readouts are displayed in a compact panel.Unlike other widgets, Temperature Monitor is capable of processing the hardware calibration data Apple stores individually into each G5-based computer. So it displays the exact readings Mac OS X internally uses for cooling control, not just an "educated guess".For detailed technical information about sensor discovery please see the developer's site.What's new in this version:Added support for new portable Mac systems with Intel T8000 processors.Added temperature...

Keywords: information computer control monitor access data cool site 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 177 kb; Updated: 2008-03-13

Description: Proxi is a free utility from Griffin Technology for Mac OS X. It allows the assignment of automated events called "tasks" to a variety of "triggers" such as hotkeys, email, iTunes, RSS feeds, as well as hardware available from Griffin such as the PowerMate, AirClick or radio SHARK. These tasks can do such things as display messages on the computer screen, play a sound, write to a file, execute an AppleScript, control iTunes or iChat.What's new in this version:Eliminated several small memory leaks.Reduced idle CPU usage.Fixed a problem where Proxi might crash when deleting a Scheduled trigger.Added an option to suppress battery monitor triggers if the charge / discharge time is unknown.Insertion point color in Screen Message view adjusts based on background color.

Keywords: computer utility control monitor memory screen email color 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2150 kb; Updated: 2008-02-15

Description: MemoryCell is a MenuExtra for OS X that provides a quick overview on the memory (RAM) being used by each of your applications. With MemoryCell, you can monitor the memory usage of the foreground application, using this knowledge to restart anything that's started to bog down your system.What's new in this version:Full Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) CompatibilityFull Intel support

Keywords: application monitor system memory 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 742 kb; Updated: 2007-10-31

Description: LoadInDock is yet another CPU monitor. It indicates the chronological graph of the system usage, in the Dock.

Keywords: monitor system graph 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.2; File size: 124 kb; Updated: 2006-12-29

Description: Memory Monitor is a little Mac OS X application that displays the memory usage in its Dock icon (and optionally in a floating window), like CPU Monitor displays the CPU usage. It is published under the GNU General Public License, and the source code is included in the download.

Keywords: application download monitor memory window source code 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3; File size: 258 kb; Updated: 2006-10-23

Description: Letterbox is a plugin for Apple's Mail.app that takes advantage of your widescreen monitor. It rearranges the interface into three vertical columns – so the message pane is to the right of the message list, rather than below.

Keywords: monitor plugin mail into 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.; File size: 213 kb; Updated: 2006-10-20

Description: Cosmic Debris is an Aurora Borealis (AKA the Northern Lights) monitor menu item. It monitors two internet data sources for the probability of an Aurora event. The menu icon then displays the likelihood of an event using a color scheme: green for low probability, yellow for medium probability, red for high probability (and active for PCAF), and gray for unknown. Options include having a popup window, email or sound alert you of upgrades to the probability levels, auto updating and more. Remember, this is a probabilty monitor. It doesn't actually tell you if the Northern Lights are active or not, but rather the likelihood that they could be active.

Keywords: internet monitor window popup email color sound data 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4; File size: 290 kb; Updated: 2006-10-20