MenuMeters where have you been all my life

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MenuMeters where have you been all my life

By Sparky | April 3, 2006

I just discovered a kick-ass little utility for OS X called MenuMeters. Up until now I had always been running Activity Monitor and iStat Pro. I used iStat for detailed information, and the “floating CPU utilization” feature of Activity Monitor tucked away in the corner to keep an eye on my processor.

I’m a big graphs geek and always like to feel like I have my finger “on the pulse” of whatever machine I’m currently using. MenuMeters manages to elegantly answer all of my at a glance wants, and does so with not only a small memory footprint, but also minimal processor utilization.

It’s quite configurable, and as you can see it gives all sorts of information about your CPU, disks, network utilization and more. I’m sold! MenuMeters is free, open source, OS X only.

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