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I spent a lot longer palying with PTHCPUMonitor than I had expected last evening. I found that there were an amazing variety of configurations to experiment with, and I just had to try them all (well.... at least most of them). Paul Haddad's PTHCPUMonitor is a fun little freeware application that displays the CPU(s) load on the Mac OS X menubar. You can use preferences to choose from among many different ways of displaying the CPU load. 
ITo install PTHCPUMonitor, drag it from the diskimage to a folder on your hard drive. You can use the LoginItems preference pane in System Preferences.app to cause PTHCPUMonitor to autolaunch on login. A default bar graph monitor of CPU load will appear in the menulet section of the menu bar when PTHCPUMonitor is launched, but that's just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. Pulling down the menu allows you to display an information details window with all kinds of interesting data, including memory usage (maxed out as usual on my machine as you can see) and pageout history. 
The program preferences facilitate setting the menu bar readout in a gaggle of different configurations and colors. I found that I liked either the Gradient Bar or the "String" selection which reads out the CPU load percentage in text. 
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PTHCPUMonitor is freeware/donationware It's a small download and well worth checking out for yourself.
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re: Mozilla 1.4 Virtual Desktop OS X Odyssey 359 Alternative - ShowDesktop From Dan Yo Charles, I was reading your review of the newest Mozilla 1.4 and thought I would give it another try. Wowzer's ! On my Pismo, and on the sites I visit most often it's much better than Safari ! Particularly on my company's web site where they use Novell Web access so you can check your email at home. Both Safari and IE refuse to behave or treat this site and the double log in's correctly. Mozilla did it right the first time, second time and 3rd and 4th time. Banking sites seem to work peachy keen, and it even asked me if I wanted to block pop ups. I like that. I don't need Composer or the email app, so maybe I will look for a future version that doesn't include these apps to save some disk space. So far with the 1 or 2 hours of playing with it, I have no problems what-so-ever. It is a keeper and the price is right. I just found Nova Scotia on the map....so that's where it is. Dan
Yo Dan;
Yup; I had originally planned to only try out Mozilla 1.4 for a week or so for review purposes and then go back to Safari, but the performance has kept me using it. It's a swift and smooth player.
Charles From Benjamin Huot Does 1.4 support reget (resuming) of downloads that were paused due to a browser crash or a dial-up disconnect? 1.3 does on Windows as does Internet Explorer 6 on Windows if you click on the link again. Also, does the download manager still corrupt downloads.
Ben Huot
Hi Ben;
I haven't really done any downloading with Mozilla 1.4, but I don't recall having any luck resuming interrupted downloads with Mozilla on the Mac in the past. I usually use iCab or Vicom FTP Client for downloading. iCab does not support resumable downloads, but Vicom FTP Client does.
I did try downloading a fairly large PDF file with Mozilla 1.4 this week and it stalled a 99% complete, which is a bad habit I've encountered with Mozilla and Netscape before.
Charles From Geoff Saulnier Hi! Another fantastic solution, albeit shareware, is CodeTek's VirtualDesktop program. It is one of the best implementations of virtual desktops that I have ever seen, and works seamlessly with OS X.
Cheers,
Hi Geoff;
I haven't used VirtualDesktop, but it sounds good. Thanks for the report.
Charles OS X Odyssey 359 Alternative - ShowDesktop From Danny Bell
A really easy way to show the desktop is to use ShowDesktop:
Puts an icon in the dock or in the menu bar. One click minimizes all windows - very simple. Better alternative than making aliases of desktop folders.
Sounds slick, Danny.
I'll check it out.
Charles
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