Monitor your system's vital functions with iPulse

Nov 25, '02 08:49:40AM

Contributed by: DavidC

iPulse is perhaps the nicest graphical System Resource Monitor I've seen out there. In one eye-pleasing and easily interpreted display, it displays all of the following critical system information:

The dock icon mimics the floating window display (which can have different levels of transparency set) if you'd rather conserve desk space. It's amazing how efficient UI design can result in a simple but comprehensive representation of your system activity within a single window or icon. This $10.00 bit of share ware looks and works like a million bucks.

P.S. I do not work for or know anyone at IconFactory. This is just a dammed nice piece of software.

[Editor's note: If you're interested in seeing what your system is up to at all times, iPulse is definitely an impressive little application. I tested it this morning, and it's a very professional app, with clear and easy to understand preferences, and it does have a very efficient display method for showing what the system is doing. My only real complaint is that it's a bit too CPU hungry for a system monitor. Configured as I might wish to use it, iPulse took up anywhere from 9% to 15% (according to 'top' in the Terminal) of the CPU cycles on my G4/733 ... that's just a bit too much for my needs, as I'd rather have that horsepower available for other applications. That small fact aside, iPulse is an impressive effort!]

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