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XRG v0.4.0 (stable)
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Description
XRG is an open source system monitor for MacOS X. XRG allows you to
monitor CPU activity, memory usage, network activity, disk I/O, current
weather, and stock market data. The goal of XRG is to be a functional system monitor
that has a clean and flexible interface, so it doesn't intrude on the rest
of your Mac experience. XRG is designed to take as little CPU time
as possible while still showing detailed graphs on system usage. To give
you an idea of XRG's overhead, it uses 3-5% of the CPU on a G4 667 under Jaguar (2-3% in Panther), and 1-5% of the CPU on a DP 1.25Ghz G4 under Jaguar.
News
| December 3, 2003: |
It came to my attention over on the *Coder Blog that people may want to monitor worldwide stock exchanges. XRG is capable of doing this by appending international exchange codes to the stock symbol. For a full list of exchange codes, check out http://finance.yahoo.com/sd. Also, if you would like to graph markets such as the Nasdaq, you can use one of the Yahoo stock codes for those as well. The only catch is that you must convert all instances of the '^' character to '%5E'. For example, the Nasdaq is ^IXIC on Yahoo, so in XRG enter %5EIXIC. In a future version, I will do this character conversion for you. |
| November 25, 2003: |
XRG 0.4.0 released. This version fixes issues with Panther, has lots of new features, and bug fixes. Check the Changelog for details.
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| November 1, 2003: |
As many of you probably know, the
O'Reilly MacOS X Conference
was this past week in Santa Clara, CA. I was fortunate enough to be able to
attend and I must say that this was one of the best conferences I have ever
been to. While there, I had the pleasure of meeting and spending time with
some top-notch developers. I wanted to take this opportunity to mention them
and recommend their applications, as I have tried out all of them and they
are very good, and most of them have won the
O'Reilly Innovators Contest.
So here goes...
Robb Beal (Spring),
Oliver Breidenbach (iStopMotion),
Steve Gehrman (Path Finder),
Gus Mueller (VoodooPad),
Brent Simmons (NetNewsWire),
and Dan Wood (Watson).
I also had the chance to meet Matt Barger and Dan Shoop, who both gave
excellent talks at the conference. If you didn't get a chance to attend the
conference this year, I strongly recommend checking it out next year.
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| October 25, 2003: |
Panther has finally been released, and with it come some good things and
some bad things for XRG. The good news is that XRG uses quite a bit less
CPU time now. It only takes about 2-3% of CPU time on my Powerbook G4 667.
I tried it on a 1.8Ghz G5 at the Chandler Apple Store last night and it
takes less than 1% of the CPU on average on that machine. The bad thing
is that there seems to be a bug with window placement when XRG is first
opened in Panther. If you have XRG displayed on the same edge of the
screen as your dock, it will push the window out of that area every time
the application is loaded. You can move it back to the original spot, but
it will get reset every time you quit XRG. I'm working on a fix for this
and it will hopefully be ready by the next release. Anyway, enjoy Panther
and watch for XRG 0.4.0 sometime soon.
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| October 6, 2003: |
XRG 0.3.0 released. Check the changelog for new features and bugfixes.
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| September 17, 2003: |
Recently, Yahoo changed the formatting of their CSV stock data, which XRG uses to display the stock graph (thus keeping the stock graph from displaying any data). Unfortunately, it also exposes a bug in the code that causes XRG to leak memory by not freeing the memory used in the parsing routine when a parse error occurs. I modified the code to recognize the new CSV format and fixed the bug in the code that wasn't freeing memory correctly; however, these changes will not be released until the next version is ready. In the mean time, disable the stock graph to stop the memory leak. Sorry if this has caused anyone any inconvenience. I'm hoping to have 0.2.3 released in the next couple of weeks so check back periodically for updates.
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| June 16, 2003: |
XRG 0.2.2 released. This release is mostly composed of bug fixes. See the changelog for details.
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I setup a mailing list for XRG. If you want to receive announcements when new versions are
released, discuss new features, or if you need help using XRG please
subscribe.
Find a bug?
If you find a bug, email me the
type of system you are using the application on and a description of what
happened. Hopefully I'll be able to find it and fix it for the next version.
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