Weekly Utilities Update: WhatSize, Onyx, No Spin, more...

Staff Pick: iStat pro

When troubleshooting hardware setups and OS installations, many times you will need to know a variety of statistics about the system such as fan speed, component temperatures, battery levels, various bandwidths, and network information.

iStat Pro is one of several utilities that will provide this information and other statistics about your system in 9 separate sections of the application to make them manageable and easy to follow.

The latest version (4.9) improves support for the latest MacBooks, and fixes various bugs with network and disk monitoring, among other minor bug fixes and enhancements.

You can download this update from the developer's website: http://islayer.net/apps/istatpro/

Other Recent Utility Updates:

• No Spin 3.3 - Prevent your external hard drives from spinning down.
• Spanning Tools 0.61 - Analyzes problems with iCal, Address Book, Apple Sync Services.
• Cache Out X 5.0.1 - Clear caches, swap files, browser history/cache...
• WhatSize 4.7 - Measure sizes of your files and folders.
• Springy 1.5.3 - Archive/compress: zip, tar, dmg, iso, pax, cpio, gzip, bzip2, z, rar, sit, jar, ear, war.
• OnyX 2.0.5b1 - Maintenance, optimization and system personalization tool.
• The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.0b2 - Split file collections into hierarchies & batches or merge folders together.
• A Better Finder Rename X 8.22 - File, photo, MP3 batch renamer.

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