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Temperature Monitor - 3.8

displays all accessible temperature sensors

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All Time:	(4.3)
Version 3.8:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	3.8
Release Date:	2006-08-25
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 3.8):	6,427
Downloads (all versions):	348,428

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Product Description:

Temperature Monitor is an application to read out all accessible 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 Apple Mac Pro.
Added support for Growl notifications when defining sensor alerts. This makes it easier to receive alert messages by e-mail independently of the operating system version. (For more information see www.growl.info.)
Users of large screens can now activate up to 8 sensor displays in the menu-bar.
By user request, sensor readings in the menu-bar can now be configured to use the definable sensor display colors.
The format preferences for sensor readings now allow to define up to 4 instead of 2 digits behind the decimal point. This change is necessary to allow the exact display of core voltages for Intel processors (Hardware Monitor).
By request of many users, history windows are now resizable. The time axis is no longer scaled down, so users can scroll over the entire history data set in full resolution.
By user request, the application will now track for each individual history window if it was open when quitting the application. Upon next startup, the application will restore the exact state of the history windows and no longer open all histories if only one was open. For roaming network users who use the application on different computers, different history window groups for different computer types will be respected individually.
The application can now detect if a processing core of an Intel processor was shut down by the user, so the digital thermal sensors of that core no longer update their values. The sensor display of the affected core will switch to the usual "disconnected sensor" reading after some time.
The application can now detect if it is being launched on Intel-based systems before the operating system is fully started. On very fast systems which were configured for automatic login and which launched the application as a login item, this could cause the program to run before the Intel support driver was started by Mac OS X. To avoid this problem, the application will now automatically wait 10 seconds for the CPU driver to become active.
Corrected a problem where the display of precision and accuracy of temperature sensors could be switched to Fahrenheit (which is inappropriate) in the sensor detail panel.
Corrected a problem of an early build of 3.7 where the application could crash when being used on an "Intel® Xeon® 5100 Sequence" processor.
Corrected a problem of an early build of 3.7 which did not automatically open the history windows on startup if they were open during last shutdown.