![]() ![]() It also never failed to have us go from just a quick glance into scrolling further and further through its information. Take it out of Combined and just use it by itself and it never failed to show us detail. If we had it in the Combined view then sometimes whether or not we had any other items, we'd get a notice about updating instead of the full weather report. It's really only the Combined menubar option that you can set a keystroke for and we did hit an oddity with Weather. It looks great, it's easily one of the clearest and most comprehensive weather apps we've seen - and it's available at a keystroke. However, it's really more that this weather report is presented with the same detail and design flair. That could be because we've just been through some unusually hot weather and kept checking in the hope of rain. Yet now it's here and we've used it, we are startled to say that it could be our absolute favorite feature of iStat Menus. Hand on heart, we never expected to ever even glance at the new weather report option.Ī Mac diagnostic tool adding a weather report sounded like Photoshop adding a spreadsheet or Word adding a fridge magnet. You're going to find that there some iStat Menus items that are particularly useful to you and some that aren't. It's basic information but we can act on it: clear some drive space, check which app is stressing out the CPU and so on. If our Mac is slow then a glance will tell us that the CPU is maxing out or the drive is full. We typically have the Combined menu bar icon show us CPU, disk, memory and network activity. Even in mild general usage, it regularly provides the data that helps us solve a problem. If you're technical enough to make use of its information then this is a powerful and essential tool. However, it won't fix anything: it only as good as you are. We like this app and sometimes we're agog at just how much detail it has. Or if you're particularly interested in certain things, let them have their own menubar icon and put the rest under Combined. Rather than either having all eight taking up room in your menubar all of the time, you can have one Combined icon. What Combined does, though, is provide one menubar dropdown that has all the information you want in it. That doesn't sound like a big difference: either way you're getting eight menu bar items. This is a single menu bar item but you can tell it to include any or all of the other eight options. More useful, though, is a ninth option called Combined. Then click on any to get a drop down menu of live, up to date, in-depth detail. You can separately switch on each of the eight and have them as their own menubar item. There are eight separate elements to iStat Menus ranging from CPU activity to Memory. Instead, you'll pick the information you want from it and tell iStat Menus to display this in your menubar. Take note you are limited to the minimum value that Apple sets, so you can’t damage your hardware.This has all been streamlined and made slicker since the previous version but still, you're unlikely to spend much time in it. If you’re having a noise problem, you can lower this value, but make sure you keep an eye on the temperatures. This fan control tool has been used for years to set a minimum rpm value for the built-in fans. Also, it’s free, so it’s worth trying it out before buying a premium app. Keep in mind that it won’t work on the new M1 Macs, but it should be compatible with the Intel builds. Displays a status bar with current fan speed and HDD temperature.Īlthough smcFanControl is outdated because it has been discontinued, you can still use it on an older iMac, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro.Controls the fan automatically for optimal HDD/SSD cooling.If your HDD or SSD doesn’t come with a SMART interface, the app will still approximate the temperature of your hardware based on the other sensors.įind the right balance between temperature, cooling, and noise by setting a custom relationship between fan rpm and HDD temperature. Instead, it uses the hard disk’s integrated SMART interface to get the data it needs. The best thing about HDD Fan Control is that it doesn’t rely on Apple’s temperature sensors. ![]()
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