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It may be 78 degrees outside, but its 111 degrees on my processor. With X Resource Graph you can run cool, colorful charts that show weather, CPU info and more. Even if you have no idea what the numbers mean, the charts add a secret-agent-esque mood to your Mac. --MacMerc.com

XRG Featured as Pick of the Week on MacOSXHints.com! (Read the full review)

XRG reviewed by Electric Pi, the Washington Apple Pi Journal Online: "When things get busy...this little application is far more colorful. And far more useful: your coworkers, relatives, loved ones, and complete strangers will be impressed. It doesn't make a bit of difference what your Mac is doing: the graphs show that it is working hard and, presumably, so are you."

Description
XRG is an open source system monitor for Mac OS X. XRG allows you to monitor CPU activity, memory usage, battery status, machine temperature, 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 667 Mhz G4, and 1-5% of the CPU on a Dual 1.25 Ghz G4.

News

May 23, 2008:	Announcing the availability of XRG 1.2b6. I've been using this version on my Macs for a few months now, and it's been pretty stable. New features include temperature monitoring support for Intel Macs (thanks Thomas Engelmeier), monitoring of virtual memory, and several other changes. (Download)
April 11, 2006:	Thanks to Andre Beckedorf, a Universal Binary of XRG is now available (XRG 1.1u). If you have an Intel Mac, head over to the download page and check it out.
October 24, 2005:	Happy 3rd Birthday, XRG. Hit the link to visit a page about the ongoing development process of XRG and some history behind the project.
October 6, 2005:	I posted a few new themes submitted by users. There's a new theme group called the Trek Series. Check them out on the Themes page.
January 12, 2005:	I apologize for any inconvenience caused today by the site being unavailable. The site went down for almost 2 hours because of a power failure. The UPS kept the server online for about 30 minutes, but it wasn't enough to keep everything online throughout the entire outage.
January 11, 2005:	XRG 1.1 released! XRG 1.1 contains many bug fixes as well as some new features. The primary new features include increased support for temperature sensors in the iMac G5 and fan sensor monitoring on multiple types of machines. Machines with supported temperature and/or fan sensors include the PowerMac G5, iMac G5, Aluminum Powerbook G4, and iBook G4 computers. Other new features include compatibility with the latest Tiger builds and "Update Now" menu options for the Weather and Stock graphs. Finally, bugs have been fixed in the Temperature, Weather, and Battery graphs. Check the Changelog at the link above for more details.
December 9, 2004:	XRG 1.1 is currently in beta, with a release planned in the next few weeks. Most changes in version 1.1 are bug fixes and additions to the temperature graph. Many sensors have been added to the temperature graph including sensors for fan speeds in the PowerMac G5 and temperature sensors in the iMac G5. Finally, XRG 1.1 has a new application icon (displayed at the right) and XTF icon (displayed on the Themes page), both of which were designed by Laurent Baumann. Thanks!
September 28, 2004:	The Gaucho Software Forums have been added to the website. There are forums for general XRG discussion and for XRG bug reports. Check it out by clicking the Forums link at the top of the page.
August 8, 2004:	I just wanted to give everyone an update of the status of XRG. The past month or so I have been in the middle of moving across country to Michigan. Because of this, XRG development has been put on hold temporarily. I'm trying to release a new version as soon as I can, but at the moment I'm not sure of when that may be. There are a couple of known bugs in 1.0 that I would like to mention here that will hopefully be fixed for the next version. The first is in the Weather graph and will appear to cause XRG to freeze up and display the spinning beach ball. The second is a problem in the Temperature graph, and is a bit more difficult to recognize. In some cases, temperatures will be displayed as values up in the thousands, and in other cases, XRG will crash completely. I expect to have fixes for both of these issues by the next release. On a side note, many of you have sent me emails with bug fixes or feature requests. I apologize for not getting back to you yet. I'm slowing catching up with all of the email though, and I hope to respond to everyone soon. Thanks for bearing with me. :-)
May 7, 2004:	XRG 1.0 released! Thanks to everyone who helped test this version. Check the changelog for a list of new features and bug fixes.
February 6, 2004:	Someone reported a problem when upgrading to version 0.5.0 from a previous version of XRG. Apparently, XRG 0.5.0 would crash immediately when loading. The solution is to remove the XRG preferences file (~/Library/Preferences/com.piatekjimenez.xrg.plist). Sorry if this causes anyone any inconvenience.
February 5, 2004:	XRG 0.5.0 released. Check the changelog for more details.
January 13, 2004:	I've been working on expanding the capability of XRG beyond the bounds of it's application. One feature I have been working on is XRG linking to online weather data. I found a company that has created free CGI weather software. I configured it to run one of my servers and merged the templates to give it the look and feel of the XRG web page. Anyway, you can click here or follow the XRG Weather Server link on the left sidebar to check it out.
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.

Find a bug?
If you find a bug, 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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