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Not ready for Snow Leopard - Version: 1.1r2, 11/18/2009 10:34AM PST
MacHound
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- Not ready for Snow Leopard
i have a better idea: - Version: 1.1r2, 11/4/2009 06:15PM PST
plaintiger
this looks like a nice enough app, but if you want all the functionality of MagiCal, plus the option (but not the requirement) to show CPU usage, memory usage, hard drive usage, hard drive activity, network usage, network activity, and a temperature gauge for each CPU in your machine, all in your menu bar, all in a prettier and more configurable package than MagiCal's, and all for free, you owe it to yourself to check out iStat Menus. it may be more than you want/need (i actually only use the network activity and bandwidth indicators and the clock/calendar myself), but even if you only use the clock/calendar, i bet you'll be more impressed with it than you are with MagiCal.
i'm not affiliated in any way with...uh...whoever makes iStat Menus...i'm just a really happy user.
whichever one you settle on, enjoy... :)
- Version: 1.1r2, 10/6/2009 11:50PM PST Great tool! 
- Version: 1.1r2, 10/4/2009 01:09PM PST
liik
Forgot to rate it with my previous comment. Does exactly want I need it for and its free!
This version crashes on launch using Mac OS X 10.3.9 - Version: 1.1r2, 9/26/2009 05:31PM PST
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Al Varnell
I sent a crash report to the developer and got the following response:
"Hmmm, I've got to admit I don't actually have any Panther machines to test with, so it's possible that it doesn't work on OS 3.x any more."
"You might be better off reverting to the previous version since there are no new features other than Snow Leopard support."
"Hmmm, I've got to admit I don't actually have any Panther machines to test with, so it's possible that it doesn't work on OS 3.x any more."
"You might be better off reverting to the previous version since there are no new features other than Snow Leopard support."
Happy camper! - Version: 1.1r2, 9/26/2009 11:21AM PST
liik
Thanks for updating for Snow Leopard. I really missed it.
Older Versions Work! - Version: 1.1, 11/5/2007 09:32PM PST
Intimidator
Newest release does not work for me either, but Version 1.09r2 works just fine on 10.5 running on a 20" Intel White iMac
broken in 10.5... - Version: 1.1, 10/26/2007 04:40PM PST
fKing
here, anyway (1.5g G4)...
great app, hope we see a leopard version!
great app, hope we see a leopard version!
I looked in my Console log on both Mac Minis. I see numerous repeated warnings for Magical stating, "*** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0xc064df90 of class NSImage autoreleased with no pool in place -- just leaking." Six such warnings happen happen every second! Maybe that's why Magical is using over 1% of my CPU cycles. Quitting and relaunching Magical eliminates the Console log messages temporarily, and CPU usage drops back down to 0.4% for a while. However RAM usage gradually climbs upward at 1/10th of a MB every few second, then Console warnings resume and CPU usage gradually climbs back above 1.
This looks and smells like a memory leak. It's reminiscent of MagiCal's instability in the early days of OS 10.5.
I conclude MagiCal is not ready for Snow Leopard. I removed MagiCal from my Snow Leopard machines until this issue is fixed. I'll check out iStat Menus as an alternative -- thanks to PlainTiger for the tip.