iStat for iPhone
There are many useful and fun applications in the App Store. There are also many pointless apps that seem to catch public attention. While the list of available applications is long, there are two apps I am still waiting for. First, I am hopeful that Adium will release a chat client for the iPhone. Word on the street was that they would release one, but it seems apparent that was just a rumor for the time being. Second, I have wanted a way to remotely monitor my Mac server. This is easily the most important machine in my home network, and it provides many useful functions.
iStat widgets and menus have long been available for the Mac, and are a very popular suite of apps for many Mac users I know. The fact that they are free makes them an even better deal. If you like them, please donate. The one weakness is that these programs are focused on local monitoring, and don’t have a mechanism for remote monitoring. This is fine for seeing how the workstation you are currently using is consuming resources, but ineffective for monitoring a Mac server.
Word of them developing an application that ran on the iPhone and connected remotely to the Mac of your choice was great to hear. This new app has been developed as part of the iStat team’s new focus on iPhone apps through the company Bjango.
iStat for iPhone, in conjunction with iStat Server (free) running on a Mac, provides remote viewing of that machine’s current resource utilization, operating temperatures, network information, and fan operations.
You can run the Server component on as many Macs as you like. They each get paired with the iPhone individually, and securely. The setup requires that you open a TCP port through your firewall (5109), which allows the two-way communication. An added benefit of the Application is that it will give you the similar resource information about your iPhone, as well as, an option to free up memory.
So far, this is my favorite application purchased from the App Store.
All that for $1.99, or $2.99 if you don’t get to it soon. 
