Narrow throughput display to 4 digits in all cases.Net meter menu content now includes peak throughput for.Reverses the orientation of the "Opposed" mode graph. New net meter graph style "Inverse Opposed" that.Net meter now supports "orientation" preference toĭetermine if transmit or receive is on top of display.Simplified Chinese localization, thanks to Tintin.Fix network throughput on 10.6 with some new machine.This matches current implementations of 'top'. CPU percent user/system split display includes nice'd.Show disk space for mounted NTFS volumes.Fix Connect and Disconnect commands for VPN and otherĬomplex interfaces controlled by the PPP subsystem.Fix support for the PowerMate regardless of driver.Fix preference reset when opening preference pane on. Fixed NSNumberFormatter overflow for memory.(use hidden pref DiskSpaceForceBaseTwo to override). Use base-10 disk space calculations on Snow Leopard.Reordered memory pie chart to place wired at the start.Removed CPU menu thermal register statistic, hasn't.Remove CPU menu option for 'nice' color, hasn't worked.Very early OS X and aren't worth the maintenance cost. (like disabling antialiasing) that haven't been relevant since Changes to various menubar displays and text for.Major code cleanup, fixing a number of obscure bugs and.Support for IPv6 addresses in the network menu, based.Simplified Intel CPU naming ("Intel" not 80486).Hide more inactive statistics on inactive.Includes MenuCracker 2.x for Snow Leopard andįor better long-term compatibility with other menubar.Snow Leopard compatible Universal Binary (ppc,.Author Jason Simanek Posted on JCategories Computer Hardware, OSX, Software 2 Comments on Enhance Your Apple Trackpad with Raging Menace’s SideTrack However, these screenshots of the preference panes will tell you a lot.Ĭheck out these excellent pieces of software at. It’s definitely easiest to understand its many features by just downloading and installing it. SideTrack isn’t free, but you can try it out for free and, if you find it useful, purchase a license for $15. Suddenly your trackpad is endowed with vertical scroll, horizontal scroll, the ability to set each corner of the trackpad to evoke a custom key command and more. SideTrack opens up that simple, one-purpose Apple trackpad and turns it into a powerful, multi-purpose device. This little bit of software is just as valuable and unassuming. The good news? Raging Menace offers MenuMeters as a free download. It’s so excellent that it should come with OSX pre-installed. I don’t know exactly how little, but if you can run it on a PowerBook G3 running OSX 10.3 while being able to do OTHER things, it apparently isn’t using very many resources. MenuMeters adds this feature to OSX by making this data available in the main menu bar next to your wireless network status and volume control. OSX comes with an application called ‘Activity Monitor’ but it’s a resource hog and doesn’t provide a simple interface that can be visible at all times. If you’re familiar with Linux you’re probably used to having a nifty system resources ‘gauge’ that provides live information about processor activity, RAM use, network activity and more. I know this is a post about enhancing Apple trackpads, but first a quick note about MenuMeters. I like this software so much that I am taking the time to introduce more people to it. It makes these old trackpads just about as useful or maybe even more useful than the new multi-touch trackpads that Apple has introduced. Without it the laptop was painful to use without carrying a mouse around at all times. Last week I acquired a PowerBook G4 550 MHz laptop and remembered how necessary SideTrack was. That was the first time I discovered Raging Menace and two pieces of software that they make that are completely awesome: MenuMeters and SideTrack. However, one of the biggest disappointments was how ‘dumb’ the trackpad software was. It worked surprisingly well and was good enough for email, web and other basic stuff. Several years ago I bought an old PowerBook G3 Lombard in pieces, put it together and installed OSX 10.3.
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