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Some people just drive a car and don’t pay attention to anything but their speed (don’t wanna get a ticket!).
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Others like to know their current & average gas mileage, tire inflation, remaining oil life, brake wear, temperature, battery charge level, and more. If you’re that kind of person, then you’ll love iStat Menus for your Macs.
I’ve been using iStat Menus since at least version 3, and the folks at Bjango just released version 6 last week. I can’t image running a Mac without the most helpful components that sit in my menubar:
- I use it to see if my CPU is getting slammed
- I use it to see how much memory (RAM) is being used by open applications
- I use it to measure my network connection and see if anything is using more than it should be
- I use it to see how hot my MacBook Air is running
- I use it for the advanced battery monitoring
- And I really appreciate the granular customizations for time and date
Version 6 puts a little more polish on the interface and makes all my usual components look a little better.
But version 6 also adds a few more customization options for changing the color and background of the dropdown menus and items.
I also like that I can assign a hotkey to menus. For example, I like using iStat Menus to show the time and date because it offers more options for customizing how it looks. I also like clicking on it to quickly see the month and find a date. But now I assigned ⌃+⌥+⌘+D as the keyboard shortcut to quickly pull that down so I don’t have to move my cursor (hitting the shortcut again hides it or just hit the Esc key).
Version 6 also includes:
- The ability to combine menus (I actually use iStat Menus to see things at a glance so I don’t see myself using this)
- Weather (although I have several other sources for weather)
- Reorderable (is that a word?) dropdown menus (I like this a lot to further customize the dropdown menus)
- And the ability to add TWO lines to your time and date section (it gets really small!)
I do wish there was a way to sync my settings between my MacBook Air and Mac mini, although they do allow you to export and import settings. I like most everything set up the same on all my Macs, but there are some tweaks that are different depending upon the machine.
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If you’re curious about what’s going on under the hood of your Mac, then you should try iStat Menus. A single license is $18, but the “Family Pack” is $25 and allows you to install on up to 5 Macs.
We’re giving away $50 MacUpdate Bundles: Toast 12 Titanium, Ember, SimCity 4 Deluxe, Scrivenger, Notebook, Netshade, iStat Menus and more
Update: Before this deal closes – which is soon – we’re giving it away to at least 1 Twitter user and 1 Facebook user. Just Tweet or post to Facebook and we’ll pick winners later this week.
MacUpdate is hitting us with an extremely good $49.99 bundle ending soon. Headlined by Toast Titanium, which is remaking itself as a video editing and transcribing tool that also burns optical media, the bundle for 10 apps costs half of the retail price of Toast 12 alone!
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Even if Toast isn’t your Cup o’ Tea, there’s a wide variety of Mac apps which retail for around $500 that will appeal to many:
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- Ember (
$49.99first 8,000 buys only) – Versatile digital scrapbook loved by designers and great for everyone - NoteBook 4 (
$49.95) Take notes, manage documents and projects, and stay organized - Tonality Pro (
$69.99) Powerful black-and-white photo editor packed with unique features - Scrivener 2.5 (
$44.95) Award-winning word processor for serious writers - Bookends 12 (
$59.99)Full-featured reference manager - Mac DVDRipper Pro 5 (
$24.95) The best way to rip DVD movies to your Mac - NetShade 6 (
$45.00) Easy-to-use VPN for maximum online privacy - iStat Menus 5(
$19.00) Elegantly monitor your Mac from the menu bar - SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition (
$19.99) Legendary city-building simulation game
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The sale is going on for two weeks but you’ll want to jump in quick to get the full selection of apps.