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Geektool: Get your monitoring on

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As someone who likes to have instant access to what their computer is doing at all times, tools such as Geektool and MenuMeters are an indespinsible part of my Mac experience.

 

Lifehacker had a great write-up of Geektool last week, and I'm linking it here for any who missed it:

One of the best ways to keep up with information about the state of your computer is to embed it in your desktop as simple, plain text. Sure, Dashboard/Yahoo/Google/Vista widgets are big, colorful desktop toys, but they also can be distracting, space-hogging and stingy with vital information.

 

If you like to monitor your system using age-old command line tools like uptime and top, you want the free GeekTool on your Mac. Today we'll cover how to automatically embed command output, text files and even monitoring images - like web site traffic charts - onto your Mac desktop with GeekTool.

Ah, the simple joys of real-time goodness. Anyone else use this or a similar app?

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Artistan

Not sure if it's cause by system itself, but when using Geektool trying to add more than 2 logs becomes a hasle for me since for some odd reason the item keep overriding each other's settings.

So I gave up and just went back to my XRG.

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Zulu.Walker

Only heard of XRG and Geektool now, thanks for the info! Been using Hardware Monitor and found out that it is useful, but it is lacking some features IMHO. There's always extra space for those system monitoring apps on any rig, and if you're OCing these utilities are essential.

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