I’m more of a dork than a geek, and more of a geek than a nerd, so I just don’t fathom all the technology that’s percolating around inside my Mac. Therefore, this cool new app will be more interesting to the techie types: iPulse is a little app that graphically shows what is happening inside your Mac, such as memory, processor, disk, and network usage, all wrapped up in a little round clock. I understand none of it, but it looks pretty.
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