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Dr. Mac's OS X Tip-of-the-Day
Dr. Mac Gone Unsanity Over Cee Pee You - Only In Mac OS X
By BOB LEVITUS
It's another freeware Friday and I've got a peachy little menu item for you this
week from the nice folks at Unsanity. You've probably heard me rave about their
$7 haxie WindowShadeX, or their other $7 haxie FruitMenu. Both are killer
utilities for Mac OS X and I wouldn't be without either one. I really love their
stuff and today's freeware Friday pick is yet another killer utilitiy.
It's called Cee Pee You and it's a Menu Extra that displays CPU(s) load in your
menu bar. The load averages are updated every second. And that's all it does. A
little, tiny, understated numeral and percent symbol tucked up unobtrusively in
the menu bar.
The Unsanity gang says that they got tired of all the over-bloated CPU load
applications that take up valuable Dock space, so they wrote this little freebie
for our enjoyment. If you like to know how hard your chip is working, this is
one of the nicest of the measurers. And, unlike some others, it sips CPU cycles
itself, which is good.
Visit the Unsanity web page at http://www.unsanity.com for your very own free
copy. Check out their other useful and inexpensive utilities while you're there.
If you sorely miss OS 9's windowshade feature, you'd gladly pay twice what they
ask for it or more. I don't buy much software but this is one I paid for
literally hours after downloading it.
Have a great weekend. I'll have more tips and tidbits for y'all Monday.
To discuss this tip (or anything you like) in Dr. Mac's OSXFAQ Forum, click
here:
http://forums.osxfaq.com/viewtopic.php?topic=1214&forum=100&0
Bob LeVitus is a leading authority on Mac OS and the author of 38 books, including
Mac OS X For Dummies and The Little iTunes Book.
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