iStat and iStat
Have a Mac? Have an iPhone? You need iStat. And iStat.
iStat Menus for Mac provides real-time diagnotic info and shortcuts in your menu bar. Temperature, RAM consumption, throughput in and out, etc. Once you install and configure it, you can’t live without it.
iStat for the iPhone attempts to do the same but, in my eyes at least, it is just about useless in that regard. The app also lets you remotely monitor diagnostics on your Mac — again, useless as far as I’m concerned. I love it solely because of the “Free Memory” function that clears out leaks and inactive RAM consumption. I have rebooted my iPhone 3GS a grand total of zero times since installing it a few weeks ago. For whatever reason, it does an infinitely better job at clearing out memory than similar apps I’ve tried — I typically see between 130MB and 150MB of free RAM after running it.
UPDATE: Apple has forced the dev to remove the “Free Memory” function from the app.
2 years ago
