New concept for widgets or sys monitoring FINISHED

[2Berk]

After years with testing and using many programs, i needed to have smthg usefull, smthg with a little ram, smthg flexible and smthg really eye-catching. Now i've finished.

SEE THE RiGHT PART OF SCREENSHOT

I'm using a notebook P4 2.8 512RAM from SONY. I love sony and i'm surely loyal with their products. But when it comes to notebooks its really hard to find a program that shows your CPU Heat or HDD Heat. But i found one at last :)

As you will notice i only combined some programs with various icons. Some of the icons are FOOOD's Icons. His amazing icons are the best i've seen so far. Others like i said are various.

I used Adobe Photohop for placing the icons etc... Then created a .PSD template file for later use. I'm putting the wallpaper i like and exporting it as .JPG and finally setting it as my desktop wallpaper.

Steps;

1) You need a great greaat free program called COOLMON v1.0.

2) If you're using a notebook like me download Mobilemeter by Hexmagic. This is another great program for notebook users. Thanx Hexmagic.

ALL ARE FREE and USING ONLY 5MB RAM TOTAL.

Coolmon download page

Mobilemeter download page

SCREENSHOT 1

Version 1

I dont use this desktop since icon cache file gets really FAT after changing some icons and making them bigger.

SCREENSHOT 2

Version 2

Now this is much better for system.

I can post my Coolmon config if desired. and may be the icons but at this moment i cant do that because for this i need a permission from food. Anyways, i'll check this topic please comment. I hope i could said smthg at least a little unique. Tell me what do you think. IT's all 5 MB ram :) and if you're running a desktop with required specs than only coolmon will be enough i guess. Because it has soma heat and fan sensors too.

Best Regards,

2Berk

http://2berk.deviantart.com/

Edited February 8, 2005 by 2Berk

[Chris123NT]

Sony PCG-FRV28 by chance? I have the exact same laptop, except i fitted mine with a gig of ram and threw in an 80GB hd when the 40 bit the dust.

I didn't realize the cpu was running that hot lol :p

[2Berk]

:) excellent i have to do that too :cool:

by the way here is the image... but pls look at version 2 since i dont use this anymore.

[ActuaryTm]

I take it by the nonintegrated graphical (read: not text based) processor temperature readings you were not able to extract the temperature from MobileMeter?

[karma_police]

Im gonna check it.

I have a Dell and I have a program called i8kfangui that does the same and more, not eye candy but dell users could use it:

http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/

[Chunter]

@ 2Berk please pm me with your config or paste it here plz

thx

[Dean W]

What theme is that?

[2Berk]

Ok, this is my COOLMON config. Simply paste it in "Display items" section.

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<NAME=ProcUsage LEADZERO DECIMAL SIZE=5 FORMAT="ALL">

<NAME=Processes SIZE=5>

<NAME=RAMUsed>

<NAME=RAMFree>

<NAME=RAMTotal>

<NAME=DriveSpace SIZE=5 FORMAT="C FREE">

<NAME=DriveSpace SIZE=5 FORMAT="D FREE">

<NAME=PageUsed>

<NAME=PageTotal>

<NAME=NetRead LEADZERO DECIMAL SIZE=5 FORMAT="ALL">

<NAME=NetWrite LEADZERO DECIMAL SIZE=5 FORMAT="ALL">

<NAME=IPAddr>

<NAME=BatPercent SIZE=5>

<NAME=CompName>

<NAME=DateTime FORMAT="dd/mm/yy - hh:nn">

<NAME=Uptime FORMAT="*H* hrs, *M* mins, *S* secs" SIZE=20>

[2Berk]

Make a desktop background on photoshop or paintshop and add icon of your choice near the system meters. Save that file as .jpg andi open it in windows explorer and make it desktop background. Finally place your COOLMON meters near your icons.

I know it's a little bit confusing but this way you wont eat any ram or system resources. Besides you can generate more variations with this trick than avedesk or konfbulator. They eat minimum 20 MB ram and loading alot of .dll files to system.

For the upper part, as i said its MOBiLEMETER simply place it like coolmon's numbers too.

COOLMON uses 3 MB ram

Mobilemeter uses 2 MB ram

i hope you like it, cause i'm still having a lot of fun with them.

[Toastyone]

Thats pretty nice, going to try it when I get home :yes:

[agent_9000]

what font did you use?

[calarez]

Hi 2Berk!!

Could you send me that wallpaper, I loved It

Thanks

[2Berk]

This is my current desktop...

Requested wallpaper link is below...

Downlaod at Deviantart

[agent_9000]

what about the font?

[2Berk]

sorry i forgot..

Tahoma , regular , 14 for CoolMonitor

[iceberg]

what theme did you use?

Can you post it?

And I hope to download black wall paper that you use.

Thanx.

[2Berk]

The theme called BLACKPRO. It is hardly found.

The black wallpaper sadly lost. Im going to post it here and devart as soon as i find time to make another.

[Shade 45]

For thoses of you that want the theme its called BLACKpro and you can download it at http://www.xptheme.info/resources_view.cfm.../specific=2422/ you will need to register b4 you can download, i just used some fake info.

[iceberg]

Thanx for your kindness. ^^

[2Berk]

reply to PMs :

Font i used in COOLMON is Tahoma 14 regular.

[ActuaryTm]

Not certain, but appears my previous reply was missed or ignored.

Found success for text based temperature readings (on a mobile machine) by switching to Hardware Monitor (instead of MobileMeter), coupled with the File Line Data feature.

[2Berk]

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[droid]

I dont get it...

why dont use samurize?

[SirSmiley]

I dont get it...

why dont use samurize?

586839853[/snapback]

Kinda have to agree with Droid on this one. Or why not SysStats? I was using it on My Dell PIII with only 64mb Ram for the same purposes & it always came in between 2/3 megs.

I do think the config files are lot easier for the avg user with what you're suggesting. :)