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It may be 78 degrees outside, but its 111 degrees on my processor. With X Resource Graph you can run cool, colorful charts that show weather, CPU info and more. Even if you have no idea what the numbers mean, the charts add a secret-agent-esque mood to your Mac. --MacMerc.com
XRG Featured as Pick of the Week on MacOSXHints.com! (Read the full review)
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Description
XRG is an open source system monitor for MacOS X. XRG allows you to
monitor CPU activity, memory usage, battery status, machine temperature,
network activity, disk I/O, current weather, and stock market data.
The goal of XRG is to be a functional system monitor that has a clean
and flexible interface, so it doesn't intrude on the rest of your Mac
experience. XRG is designed to take as little CPU time as possible while
still showing detailed graphs on system usage. To give you an idea of
XRG's overhead, it uses 3-5% of the CPU on a G4 667, and 1-5% of the CPU
on a DP 1.25Ghz G4.
News
| August 8, 2004: |
I just wanted to give everyone an update of the status of XRG. The past month or so I have been in the middle of moving across country to Michigan. Because of this, XRG development has been put on hold temporarily. I'm trying to release a new version as soon as I can, but at the moment I'm not sure of when that may be. There are a couple of known bugs in 1.0 that I would like to mention here that will hopefully be fixed for the next version. The first is in the Weather graph and will appear to cause XRG to freeze up and display the spinning beach ball. The second is a problem in the Temperature graph, and is a bit more difficult to recognize. In some cases, temperatures will be displayed as values up in the thousands, and in other cases, XRG will crash completely. I expect to have fixes for both of these issues by the next release.
On a side note, many of you have sent me emails with bug fixes or feature requests. I apologize for not getting back to you yet. I'm slowing catching up with all of the email though, and I hope to respond to everyone soon. Thanks for bearing with me. :-)
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| May 7, 2004: |
XRG 1.0 released! Thanks to everyone who helped test this version. Check the changelog for a list of new features and bug fixes.
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| February 6, 2004: |
Someone reported a problem when upgrading to version 0.5.0 from a previous version of XRG. Apparently, XRG 0.5.0 would crash immediately when loading. The solution is to remove the XRG preferences file (~/Library/Preferences/com.piatekjimenez.xrg.plist). Sorry if this causes anyone any inconvenience.
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| February 5, 2004: |
XRG 0.5.0 released. Check the changelog for more details.
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| January 13, 2004: |
I've been working on expanding the capability of XRG beyond the bounds of it's application. One feature I have been working on is XRG linking to online weather data. I found a company that has created free CGI weather software. I configured it to run one of my servers and merged the templates to give it the look and feel of the XRG web page. Anyway, you can click here or follow the XRG Weather Server link on the left sidebar to check it out.
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| December 3, 2003: |
It came to my attention over on the *Coder Blog that people may want to monitor worldwide stock exchanges. XRG is capable of doing this by appending international exchange codes to the stock symbol. For a full list of exchange codes, check out http://finance.yahoo.com/sd. Also, if you would like to graph markets such as the Nasdaq, you can use one of the Yahoo stock codes for those as well. The only catch is that you must convert all instances of the '^' character to '%5E'. For example, the Nasdaq is ^IXIC on Yahoo, so in XRG enter %5EIXIC. In a future version, I will do this character conversion for you. |
| November 25, 2003: |
XRG 0.4.0 released. This version fixes issues with Panther, has lots of new features, and bug fixes. Check the Changelog for details.
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| November 1, 2003: |
As many of you probably know, the
O'Reilly MacOS X Conference
was this past week in Santa Clara, CA. I was fortunate enough to be able to
attend and I must say that this was one of the best conferences I have ever
been to. While there, I had the pleasure of meeting and spending time with
some top-notch developers. I wanted to take this opportunity to mention them
and recommend their applications, as I have tried out all of them and they
are very good, and most of them have won the
O'Reilly Innovators Contest.
So here goes...
Robb Beal (Spring),
Oliver Breidenbach (iStopMotion),
Steve Gehrman (Path Finder),
Gus Mueller (VoodooPad),
Brent Simmons (NetNewsWire),
and Dan Wood (Watson).
I also had the chance to meet Matt Barger and Dan Shoop, who both gave
excellent talks at the conference. If you didn't get a chance to attend the
conference this year, I strongly recommend checking it out next year.
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Mailing List
I setup a mailing list for XRG. If you want to receive announcements when new versions are
released, discuss new features, or if you need help using XRG please
subscribe.
Find a bug?
If you find a bug, email me the
type of system you are using the application on and a description of what
happened. Hopefully I'll be able to find it and fix it for the next version.
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