Widgets: iStat Pro – Information at Your Fingertips

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 | Free Stuff, Mac OS X, Software

If you’ve used a Mac for any length of time, you definitely know about widgets. Mac OS X comes with Dashboard, an application that runs a variety of small applications that accomplish all kinds of things. These widgets can be downloaded from Apple.com or from the web sites of their develops. Apple pre-installs several of these widgets on all of the new Macs. However, you can expand your widget collection to an unimaginable extent.

I’d like to share with you one such widget that I find very useful. Granted, I’m a techie and I enjoy knowing what goes on under the hood of my computer. I like to know the temperature of my machine, fan speed, network speed, up time and so on. An easy way to access this information with one key stroke is to use iStat Pro widget. It displays the information I listed and more. With it you can know the charge of your battery, available capacity of the hard drive, most active processes, CPU usage and memory usage.