Category Software

Wattbar 1.4 shows CPU frequency, fits two readings in the space of one, puts Settings in four tabs, and finds the battery health and cycles on more Macs.

Wattbar 1.3 adds a graph of the last half hour, the apps using the most power or memory, battery and charger details, and notifications. And Wattbar now has a page of its own.

Less than three weeks ago I wrote about FuMachine, the little remote desktop I made for the computers around the house when NoMachine’s free version went behind a subscription. A lot has happened since then: eleven new versions, an app…

A tiny power meter for the Mac menu bar: what your Mac uses, what the charger delivers, and what goes into or out of the battery. Now it can show RAM usage too, if you switch it on.

I have a handful of computers around the house, and for years I used NoMachine to hop between them. It did the job. Then NoMachine released version 10, and the free version was suddenly behind a subscription. I didn’t feel…