In addition to the new battery status item, iStat Menus 3 adds some enhancements to the existing modules, such as the network item’s stacked mode (which shows the upload- and download-speed graphs stacked on top of one another, instead of one overlapping the other) a fan-speed option in the sensors item your public IP address in the network item and sun and moon information in the date and time item. The configuration options for each status item are plentiful, and the program does a good job of presenting them in such a way so as not to make the options and information overwhelming. Disabling an extra is as simple as dragging it off the menubar (or toggling a slider in the iStat Menus settings window).Ĭlick any of the new menu items to view a menu, tailored to suit your tastes, containing a plethora of information about various components of your system. Status items can be rearranged in the menubar just as you would Mac OS X’s own menu extras-by holding down the Command key while you click-drag an item to the left or right. These were all present in the previous version, but the latest version adds a battery extra to the mix. There are likely other apps and services that will push forecasts to me, but with iStat Menus already a must-have on my Mac, I call the new Weather features a winner.IStat Menus’ menus items include monitors for CPU, memory, and disk usage disk and network activity hardware sensors and the date and time. Having the temperature range pushed to me first thing in the morning feeds all that. And I’m an information junkie, to be sure. I’m just always curious about the temperature, and use the data to decide what to wear, whether or not to open or shut windows, and sometimes to decide on activities. I have it on a widget in the upper left corner of my watch face. A Note on įun fact about me: the second most-used aspect of my Apple Watch is checking the temperature. You can buy version 6 for $18, or upgrade from previous versions for $9.99. I consider it a must-have utility on my Macs. I think their clock and calendar is better than the built-in one for macOS, too. I’ve always used it for CPU monitoring, RAM usage, and network traffic monitoring. It’s an app that puts a host of data in your menu bar. Weather Preferences in iStat Menus 6 iStat Menus 6 That’s one of the great things about iStat Menus in the first place, and Weather is just as customizable as anything else. In the preferences you can buy more frequent updates (which I haven’t done) and customize the data that’s displayed. Here’s what that looks like: Weather pulldown menu in iStat Menus 6 Turning to the Yahoo! Weather app in iOS is so ingrained in me, I haven’t remembered that basic forecast and conditions are there on my Mac. There’s a pulldown menu, too, which I haven’t used that much. Weather is a new feature in iStat Menus 6. Can you feel the waves of indulgent satisfaction rolling off me? iStat Menus 6 and Weather Let’s take a gander: Forecast for Today Notification from iStat Menus 6’s Weather featureīoom! There it is. It feeds my addiction to incoming information in a very satisfactory manner. It’s a small thing, to be sure, but when I get up to work, I’ve found myself immediately drawn to it, sitting all sweet and pretty in my Mac’s Notifications. The title gets right to it: I love the weather forecast notification in iStat Menus 6.
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