Since I first got my Mac mini several years ago (which I don’t own anymore), and more recently, my iMac (which, again, I don’t own anymore) and MacBook (which I do own), I’ve always been a fan of two handy utilities on my Mac – iStat Pro, and iStat Menus, both of which are developed by iSlayer. Simply put, they’re two system monitoring utilities for Mac OS X. iStat menus sits in your menu bar, and iStat Pro is a Dashboard widget. iStat Pro, the Dashboard widget, shows common stuff about your Mac, including CPU and RAM usage, network activity, uptime, disks and disk usage, battery info, and your internal temperatures and fan speed(s). iStat Menus shows much the same stuff, but on the menu bar, however I myself only use it for the CPU meter, and the Calendar. They’re two of the handiest utilities I’ve come across on OS X, so if you have a Mac, I highly recommend you check them out.
Anyway, I’m not reviewing those, I’m reviewing (or attempting to review it – I’m not the best at that 
) iStat, for the iPhone. This app was announced a while ago, and I first became aware of it while reading TUAW. It’s developed by the parent company (I think?) of iSlayer, which is called Bjango. The iPhone version of iStat is pretty handy, in that in can monitor your Mac while you’re away from it.
The app itself is available on the iTunes App Store, for £1.19. Now, an quick look at it overall.
Note: The screenshots in this post include some non-standard iPhone UI elements – my iPhone has a different font and keyboard theme applied, so if you’re on an unjailbroken iPhone, you’ll see the normal keyboard and font. Continue reading ‘iStat for the iPhone’
