I find the CPU/Memory/HDD/Net stats as something I regularly take a look at. But these stats live a virtual live. If they are a desktop gadget they are pushed in the background by other programs or they are doomed to live like a little bar down in the taskbar.
The desire to somehow free the stats from their virtual world and have them on my desk is what made me create the ReCoMonB – Real Computer Monitoring Block. Bellow you can see how it looks like
And that is a video demonstration:
If you are interested in the details please read the the very detailed blog I have prepared. Bellow you can read the short version of how I created the ReCoMonB.
I approached my idea quite literally starting with the CPU load – I wanted a real tachometer connected to the PC via USB to show me the CPU load. After some searching on ebay I found the tachometer bellow
For more detail: Real Computer Monitoring Block
