Weekly Utilities Update: Hardware Monitor, IPSentinelStatus, Leopard Cache Cleaner, more

Staff Pick: Hardware Monitor

Hardware monitor is a powerful utility that taps into the various built-in sensors in your Mac, giving you real-time status updates and statistics on system performance measurements. Included in the measurements taken are fan speeds, voltage measurements, power usage, and ambient lighting.

In addition to Hardware Monitor, the developer also provides "Temperature Monitor", which keeps track system component temperature, including that for the CPUs, chipsets, hard drives, RAM. These abilities are a must for people troubleshooting crashes and odd computer behavior, as well as for determining if the computer is in danger of stressing any components.

The latest version (4.7) provides the following fixes and features.

• Full support for all new and upcoming Mac models.
• Consistent labeling in the program.
• Slightly revised numbering for system components.

You can download the update at the following location: http://www.bresink.de/osx/HardwareMonitor.html

Other recent utility updates:

• FileZilla 3.2.3.1 - Popular FTP client
• wake 1.0 - Command line utility for sending "wake on LAN" signals to a computer on the network via Ethernet
• IPSentinelStatus 1.1.2 - Monitor your IP address changes in the menubar or via email.
• Temperature Monitor 4.7 - Monitor your system components' temperatures using built-in thermal sensors.
• Leopard Cache Cleaner 4.0.22 - Popular system maintenance utility
• MacDust 3.06 - System maintenance and drive cleaning utility
• Batch File Rename 1.4 - Quickly rename multiple files

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