Oil Price Monitor

Oil Price Monitor is a simple widget which can be used in order to monitor the evolution of the gas and oil prices.

The interface is very simple and intuitive, thus allowing both beginners and experienced people to find their way around it with great ease. It is built as a list, displaying the price for crude and heating oil, natural and propane gas and RBOB gasoline.

From the settings panel it is possible to change the update time from the default 10 minutes up to one hour. In addition to that, you can force the small tool to display a flyout focus panel, while choosing which energy resources to show or hide, and changing the view from decimal to percent. The original settings can be restored at any point, checking for updates is also available.

Right-clicking the utility launches a context menu, which happens to be quite similar to the one used in most Windows gadgets, and enables you to add new widgets, close this one or move to another location on the desktop. You can also force its frame to always stay on top of other applications, access the configurations pane and change the opacity, from 20% up to 100%.

Our tests have revealed that CPU and RAM usage is insignificant and therefore, the system’s performance will not be hampered, and you can run this program alongside others, without experiencing difficulties.

Taking all of this into consideration, we can say Oil Price Monitor is a pretty decent piece of software, with a good response time and a user-friendly environment.