how to display date on macbooks

eurotrotter

hey all
i find it quite annying the way the date isnt displayed all the time ont h edesktop.
is there a way of getting it to appear all teh time, without having to clikc the time/clock?
thanks
ed

Sad Professor

In Tiger you used to be able to show the date in a floating window. Seems this feature was removed in Leopard. There's probably a third-party app that can do it. Surely it's just as easy to bring up Dashboard and glance at the Calender widget? Only takes a click.

J-blk

You can install iStat Menus to add pretty much anything to your menu bar (CPU usage, memory, etc), including date and time in a variety of formats:

http://www.islayer.com/apps/istatmenus/

The funny thing is, from another thread you posted, I think you already have installed but didn't know what it is . If you have it installed, you'll have an "iStat Menus" entry in System Preferences, under the "Other" section and you can configure what shows.

eurotrotter

hey all
im just looking to be able to change the oil and water in her everyonce n a while
iv been noticing the spinning beachball on the screen regularly even though she running 2 gigs of ram.
so what programmes/antivirus/ hard drive defragmentation s/w should i run etc?

cos my mac isnt very healthy at the momenti feel
thanks for lookin
ed

J-blk

Well you could use the iStat menu options to monitor CPU and memory usage (which is what I do) - if the Mac starts beachballing, clicking the CPU or memory icons respectively will show you the main resource hogs currently running and you can also launch Activity Monitor from there - that could help you track down what may be going on.

Rhyme

Have iCal open on login.

It displays the date.

Draupnir

Keep iCal in your dock and it displays the date permanently in a sexy, giant Icon that changes every day.

Bunnyhopper

Try this:

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2212/os_x_display_date_menu_bar/