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Post #303,130 by Another Scott 1/27/09 7:34:42 AM Reply	Welcome! There are a lot of nice features about OS X that are worth exploring. Your middle mouse button is calling up the Dashboard. On our black MacBook, it's called up by a Function key (F5?). Apple (and others) has/have lots of "widgets" that can be added to the Dashboard - many for free. http://www.apple.com...nloads/dashboard/ http://www.apple.com...tus/istatpro.html is a marvelous system monitor and free. Have fun! Cheers, Scott.
Post #304,027 by Ashton 2/11/09 11:13:42 PM Reply	Wow! iStatPro - a center-button click away Why.. of course there is a fan! 3 in fact.. I Like that it monitors 8 items for °C! Or F or K!! I do Not like several temps near 50° C! in a fairly cool room (22°.) OK... at least it isn't 60! somewhere. And some people live at 50 -- like in Baghdad. If you only glance at it once a day ... tranquility. Summer? See a slow, quiet exhaust-slot 'helper' fan in my future. Just because I Can. Unclear, haven't delved yet -- if any temp info would be xmitted via USB/FWire HDs. Poco á poco. Bit that info is Out there. Thanks! d/l, install about as instant as imaginable. Gotta start finding logical Folders in which to stash stuff off the Download tower / clear off the desktop, et cetera. Lest they grow like Topsy. iMac -- more fun than a fortune cookie. Class! ... don't look in Redmond to find it.
Post #304,089 by Meerkat 2/13/09 9:20:19 AM Reply	Regarding fans... Not sure if this app works with iMacs, or just the laptops, but SMCFanControl is very handy for my Macbook Pro to save it from getting too warm. Well, to qualify that, 'too warm for my liking' - especially when using the laptop in the way its name suggests :) Regardless - google will find it, or: http://www.versiontr...info/macosx/31029 They said I was gullible ... and I believed them
Post #304,135 by Ashton 2/13/09 7:49:13 PM Reply	Great Minds. Thanks - the Perfect adjunct to iStat, which I wished-for, immediately ... and ... it Works. Was going to pass this on --> A Scott, for his tip on iStat (which I see I could not without Do.) Got new V2.1.3.1 at below source. """ While noting fan speeds, temp of the GPU diode: usually highest-of-all (and noting some reports from the field -- when some users found it beyond 70° [even 90!]) -- I came across a ref to This bitchin Util, which now resides in Menu Bar. http://www.macupdate...info.php/id/23049 Obviously of more import to all nb users, I find it quite comforting to be able to, at least apply the Obvious: 70+ °C is getting to too-Hot for longevity of expensive, mobo-unreplaceable mini-processors like this GPU chip. 90° C is beyond the pale, long-term. We gots fine monitoring, ergo Use It. """ Bumped DD, CPU fans a mere 100 rpm: no Sahara temps anywhere. Gonna send a couple $ --> PayPal (I like author's info too - he did not do any risky things like ... closed-loop: for reasons well-stated.) Now I want to find out, wtf is this 'diode' doing, where is it and why is it the hottest thingie? The usual. Again, thanks for this al-punte tip. While I'm not obsessive about checking stuff every hour because-it's-there, this is the sort which, once seen to operate as described -- deserves a glance, periodically. Before and especially after: warranty goes. Love this machine so-far; 'tis almost as much fun as the electron synchrotron (which was small enough to be run by One.. even just to demo to a friend on a weekend. As in, Wooo :-) Now {sob} it has left the Smithsonian.. (was an exhibit for a few years) to its {sniff} denouement in some gigundo warehouse, never again to see gawking visitors.. (hearing the audio tape I made of it's 6/sec thump-thump-thumps.)

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