
With the strong resurgence of the Mac in recent years, we want to celebrate tools we use and that readers recommend to make the most of your macOS experience. Welcome to the return of Mac Gems, a column that ran for many years and highlighted great nuggets of Mac software-apps that have a high utility, have a sharp focus on a limited set of problems to solve, and are generally developed by an individual or small company. i usually avoid them for that reason, though when you first get a new machine it's good to monitor for a little while. stuff that constantly runs in the background like that is especially bad, particularly if it's 3rd party.
#ISTAT MENUS REVIEW UPDATE#
iStat Menus 6.5 is a significant update with design refinements.

With version 5, we said, iStat's excellent customization panels let you choose exactly what you want to see. yes, every program you run drains battery commensurate with its hardware use. iStat Menus is highly configurable, with full support for macOS light and dark menubar modes. We reviewed version 4 in 2013 and version 5 in 2014. It combines the best intent of a dashboard in providing you with an array of well-presented information in one place without getting in your face. While dashboard-style interfaces have waxed and waned-including Apple's own Dashboard that thrived from about 2004 to 2014-iStat Menus has remained true to its core.

The appearance of the customization screens is far more complex than actually using them.īut Bjango keeps it surprisingly approachable by using drag-and-drop simplicity to select and arrange the items you want with graphic previews of how your choices will appear.
