![]() Two years after the release of version 4.0, Bjango has launched iStat Menus 5 today, adding hundreds of new features and improvements, and bringing a new design for both OS X Mavericks and Yosemite. I’ve never used all of the functionalities that iStat Menus offers, but I rely on a couple of menus that have been tastefully crafted to strike a balance between polished UI and utility. iStat Menus isn’t an app I constantly interact with, but it’s always there in my Mac’s menu bar, and it’s one of my must-have apps that I mention every year. The advanced viewer shows more information about your iOS device. The premise of iStat Menus hasn’t changed with this release: by deeply integrating with OS X and Mac hardware, iStat Menus places a series of icons in your menu bar that can be clicked to reveal dropdowns with information and graphs for CPU and memory usage, network access and consumption, battery life and health, disk space and read/write times, and even time zones and calendar events. You can find the Analyzer in the Tools Menu in the Menu Bar. I don’t need all the information and status reports that iStat Menus can give me, but I’ve been keeping the app’s time, battery, and memory icons in my menu bar for years now. I like the convenience of avoiding a trip to Activity Monitor when I need to figure out what’s consuming too much RAM, and, overall, I prefer Bjango’s widgets to Apple’s. iStat Menus 5.0 doesn’t change the basic interaction or my preference for Bjango’s take. MenuBar Stats A quick view to your system health right in your menu bar. In iStat Menus, you can customize the colors of the app’s icons – with the new version, you can switch to Yosemite’s dark menu bar mode and set dark dropdowns. Here is the list of methods in Swing JMenuBar Control class. The app has already been tested with 10.10’s new dark menu bar, which is a welcome replacement to the popular third-party Obsidian Menu Bar hack. What’s better about this customization now is that it looks great with Yosemite’s dark menu bar. I like to keep a memory pie graph for my MacBook Air’s RAM, and by clicking the icon I can show breakdowns and, if I want, choose custom colors for wired, active, and compressed memory (the latter a new feature for OS X 10.9 and above). Or, if my battery is draining, I can set its icon to be purple instead of green. It’s a little touch, but I like the personalization and the way colors pop on Yosemite’s dark menu bar. ![]() Open it and move Stats.app to the Application folder. Like any system monitor, MenuBar Stats can show CPU details, memory info, disk usage, networking, battery life, and more. This will download a file called Stats-VERSION.dmg. Installation You can download the latest version here. ![]() Plus, with per-app memory usage as a percentage of total memory (per-app information is new in version 5.0 and also available for CPU and disk activity), I can have an easier understanding of which app is doing what to my mid-2011 Air. macOS system monitor in your menu bar This app is modified and, unlike the original one, some of its network connection-required functionalities are disabled. ![]()
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