December 2005 Archives

   I have not been lazy on my wallpaper makin'. In fact, here goes a new Mustang themed wallpaper for you. Simple, but nice. I was wanting to add a montage of some mustangs behind it, but I'll do that later in another wallpaper.

   Access it via "Mustang" in the wallpaper menu to the right. Its in 1280x1024 format, but you can just set it to center on your desktop. That will put the Mustang logo in the center.

   I love free stuff. In fact, 'FREE' is the best of prices. I can understand when something costs more than nothing, but I always enjoy the price of free. This free-icism even spreads to my computer. Sadly, hardware is hard to come by for free but software isn't.
   So, I've decided to showcase some freeware software that I don't believe that I would be able to live without on Mac OS X. The list isn't a 1, greatest, to 10, worst, list but just a list with the software placed arbitrarily in it.

1.  MenuMeters
   Ah, all that empy space in the menubar just begs for something useful to be put up there. This, of course, is where MenuMeters comes in. It provides plenty of function in a small system preference.
   It allows various types of graphs and sorts to be placed in the menubar. For instace, it can put a graph of the CPU usage or temperature up there. Or, it could put a graph showing disk activity. The main reason I have it, though, is for its graph showing network activity. I like to know when something is going out or in of my computer via the Interwebs.

2.  XMenu
   The good ole days of Mac OS 9. Its 'Apple Menu' provided a very easy place to gain access to the 'Applications' folder or any folder you placed in there for that matter.
XMenu brings some of this ease of use back with its ability to show a menu in the menubar that allows easy access back to OS X's 'Applications' folder, or the 'Document's' folder, or a folder of the user's choice. It can show big icons for item in that folder, small icons, or even no icons at all (my personal choice).
Simply put, that's about the gist of XMenu.

Well, I don't feel like writing up anymore short reviews of these things. Nevertheless, I will do so tomorrow or the day after that. Don't worry, I have many more OS X freeware to throw your way.

   Hurray, I'm finally off for the Christmas holidays. It feels nice too. Nothing to do today besides some laundary. The laundary, by the way, I've been delaying for about a week now. I need to get it done.

   I ever do enjoy the cold weather, but I wouldn't mind some sunshine every now and then. Its been cloudy for last couple of days now.