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Forgotten print job maxes CPU usage
Authored by: davidlfoster on Aug 30, '06 09:21:38AM

Wow... that dock icon feature of activity monitor is neat. I did not know that. Even cooler is the CPU history, which if you have a Quad, is almost worth the cost of getting a Quad. I definitely prefer eating up dock space for this use versus taking up valuable menubar space.

A nice add-on for this feature would be if you could alternate multiple read-outs on the dock icon, like say rotate through them once every 10-60 sec.

It seems to me that app writers could find new ways to convey info to users with this kind of approach (anything but jumping or otherwise obnoxious animated dock icons).



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Forgotten print job maxes CPU usage
Authored by: osxpounder on Aug 30, '06 01:36:58PM

Activity Monitor also offers to display a small, floating window that is a CPU usage meter, which you can drag where you choose, so you need not take up space in the Dock *or* menu bar. See its Window menu for the choices available.



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