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Sony PSP hacked for use as PC status monitor
No money for a secondary display? No use for that worn-down PSP? There's hope for the future, friend. Hacker avi has discovered that Sony's handheld makes for a wonderful status monitor, providing a clean look at your PC's CPU usage, memory allocation and system temperature levels. All you'll need is a bit of training in Python, Lua for the PSP and a sister willing to stop watching UMD movies long enough for you to give this a go.
iPulse 2.1.9 now available
Earlier this week, The Iconfactory released iPulse version 2.1.9 (we've written about iPulse before). For the uninitiated, iPulse is a great system-monitoring utility which tracks information like CPU usage, motherboard temperature, available disk space and a whole lot more. As you would expect from Iconfactory software, its appearance is customizable by applying any of a great number of skins, or "jackets," from the jacket gallery. Changes to v. 2.1.9 include Support for reading temperature on all Intel Macs A new Dock menu A global preference to hide the dock icon There's more, of course; you can get the full run-down here.iPulse requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later, and can be downloaded from the Iconfactory website. A single license costs $12.95 USD. Version 2.1.9 is a free upgrade for registered users.
