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Temperature Monitor - 2.5

displays all accessible temperature sensors

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Release Date:	2005-02-28
License:	Freeware
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Product Description:

Temperature Monitor is an application to read out all available temperature sensors in Macintosh computers. The program can display and visualize the values measured by Mac OS X in a large variety of fashions. Among others, the following operations are supported:

display in a default window
output in a screen display in front or in the background of the screen
tabular display in an overview window
display in the menu-bar
display in the Dock icon
graphical display of short-term and long-term history curves in an unlimited number of windows
speech output
display of minimum and maximum values
export to text or CSV files

Moreover, the application can display additional technical information about your computer. Among other information this includes processor type, processor and bus frequencies, and manufacturing information.

The application can read out the data only if your computer is equipped with the necessary sensors, and if Mac OS X can access them without needing third-party device drivers. Starting in summer 2002, Apple has begun to massively drive forward the use of monitoring probes in the PowerMac series, the Xserve series, and in portable computers. Some models are equipped with 38 and more sensors.

Temperature Monitor tries to detect all sensors on as many Macintosh computer types as possible. However, a prediction which sensors are available in which models is not possible, because Apple very often releases "silent product updates", where the hardware equipments of some models are changed but the names are not. The particular graphics card, hard disk configuration and operating system version is also important.

What's new in this version:

Added support for the 12-inch, 15-inch, and 17-inch PowerBook G4 models released in February 2005. Note that current versions of Mac OS X are not capable of refreshing most temperature sensor readings of the February 2005 15-inch model, and the February 2005 17-inch model.
Support for temperature sensors of several hard disk models has been added.
Added new feature to display disk monitoring detail data for Apple Xserve drive modules.
Added new feature to display the number of charge/discharge cycles as well as the maximum capacity of battery units of portable computers (Hardware Monitor only). This feature is only available on Mac OS X versions which are capable of supporting this.
History data and current sensor readings can now also be exported in CSV format in addition to text files.
Because different versions of Mac OS X handle the sign of the battery amperage values differently (indicating that the battery is charging or discharging), Hardware Monitor will now display positive values only to avoid confusion.
By user request it is now possible to launch the Lite version from the preferences panel of the full version. This allows a simple switch between the Lite and full version when the user wants to change preference settings for the menu-bar display.
Fixed a problem where the option to display readings in Celsius and Fahrenheit simultaneously could cause an incorrect display of temperature extreme values in the minimum/maximum window.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.2.5 or higher

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