iStat Menus is a useful application that will help you monitor your system right from the menubar.

Included are 8 menu extras that let you monitor every aspect of your system.

Here are some key features of "iStat menus":

· CPU - Monitor cpu usage. 7 display modes, multiple core support.
· Memory - Monitor memory usage. 4 display modes, page ins/outs and swap usage display.
· Disks - Monitor disk usage and activity. 6 display modes, ability to hide disks you dont want to see.
· Network - Monitor current and total bandwidth, peak bandwidth, ip addresses . Ability to hide disks you dont want to see.
· Temps - Monitor the temperature of your mac. 2 display modes, ability to hide sensors you dont want to see.
· Fans - Monitor the fan speeds in your mac. 2 display modes, ability to hide sensors you dont want to see.
· Bluetooth - Control bluetooth status plus monitor the battery level of your Apple wireless keyboard or mouse.
· Date & Time - Date + time in your menubar. World clock display lets you see the time in multiple locations around the world.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Mac OS X 10.6 support (requires at least Mac OS X 10.5).
· Aqua skin support in all dropdowns.
· New menubar layout selectors.
· Installer now allows you to install for all users.
· Added option for “Preferences...” item on each dropdown.
· Added red and purple skins.
· Display options for each mode are built into the new layout selector.
· New calendar and world clocks.
· Added over 20,000 new cities to world clock database.
· You can now add custom cities to the world clock database.
· Added several new clock formatters.
· New clock format selector.
· Calendar icon can now be place anywhere.
· Fixed bugs with week number calculations.
· Calendar supports any day as the first day of the week.
· Improved calendar support for countries where weekends are on thursday and friday.
· Date in Date & Time dropdown now uses the full date format as specified in the International or Language & Text preference pane in system preferences.
· Option to group items together for CPU extra.
· Improved CPU dropdown display on 16 core systems.
· Added pie graph mode to CPU.
· Option to limit CPU history graph to 1 item.
· Added Console item to CPU and Memory extras.
· Added pie graph mode to Disk Usage.
· Added disk ejecting.
· Added disk mounting.
· You can now have multiple disks or sensors in the menubar.
· Network disks are now support in Disk Usage extra.
· Added option to use base 10 match for calculating hard drive sizes (same as Finder in 10.6).
· Added Disk Utility item to disks extra.
· Added new Activity extra for disk activity.
· New Sensors extra replaces the Temperatures and Fans & Electrics extras.
· Option to hide “rpm” suffix from menubar display for fans.
· Fixed bug with “disable on battery” option for S.M.A.R.T drive temperature monitoring.
· Support for battery cell voltages.
· Added Overlay graph type to Network extra.
· Added option to scale network graphs to visible peak.
· Added network location switching.
· Added dot mode to Network & Activity extras.
· Improved support for 2009 Mac Pros.
· Removed Bluetooth extra (most features will be included in a new extra later on).