Friday, March 6, 2009

iStat for iPhone feeds your Mac stat obsession

We got a sneak peek at iStat for iPhone in July last year. iStat is an app that allows iPhone owners to keep an eye on a Mac's stats from afar. Now Bjango (formerly iSlayer), the company known for making incredibly useful Dashboard widgets and iPhone software, has released the app in the App Store.

For a quick recap, iStat for iPhone (iTunes Link) brings much of the system monitoring utility you are (or should be) familiar with from Bjango's Dashboard widgets. After installing the small iStat Server app available freely from Bjango, iStat for iPhone allows you to remotely monitor your Mac's CPU, disk activity, network usage, component temperatures, uptime, and more. As a bonus, it also displays iPhone stats like memory, disk space, WiFi and Cell IP address, uptime and load averages. It even offers one-tap buttons for e-mailing an iPhone's Unique ID (also known as a UDID), MAC address, or both at the same time.

If all this monitoring has you concerned about privacy and bandwidth, though, you should be able to rest easy tonight. When we spoke with Marc Edwards last year for our sneak preview, he explained that Bjango held bandwidth consumption as a top priority. Even back then, iStat for iPhone was optimized to use less than 1MB per hour when left running continuously. To top it all off, iStat Server allows for setting a password to further protect access to stats from your Mac.

I personally haven't had a chance to use iStat for iPhone yet, but it looks gorgeous and costs just $1.99 from the App Store. We at Ars have a review coming very soon, though, so keep an eye out for it in the next few days.

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