Peek-a-Boo 1.6: Watch and change applications' behavior.
Drag "PaB Special Technology" to your System Folder, where your Mac will automatically put it into the Extensions folder. Then restart your Mac to activate Special Technology.
**** What is Peek-a-Boo? ****
Peek-a-Boo 1.6 is a $20 utility to monitor and manipulate all running processes. You can watch and adjust how much CPU time each process uses. You can view any piece of information available through the Process Manager, sorting processes by a variety of attributes.
Peek-a-Boo "Special Technology" can adjust how much of the CPU a program is allowed to use. For example, if a web browser is using up too much CPU time when it should be idling, Peek-a-Boo can lower that process's priority. Alternatively, if a number-crunching program in the background needs more CPU time, Peek-a-Boo can raise its priority. Peek-a-Boo is well-suited to this task since it both shows CPU usage and adjusts it, so you can see what processes need their priorities changed, and you can watch how well the adjustments worked.
Peek-a-Boo does not need to be running for Special Technology to take effect: once a process's priority is adjusted, it remains set until it's adjusted again.
Peek-a-Boo lets you open CPU history windows to track how much processor power a process uses, and logging windows for more detailed CPU and memory usage analysis, including the ability to save the results to a tab-delimited log file.
**** What is new in Peek-a-Boo 1.6 ****
Peek-a-Boo has implemented an Apple Event interface to enable third-party programs to use Peek-a-Boo's Special Technology feature to set process priorities.
Another Clarkwood Software product, CSM Pack, includes a module that uses this interface to set priorities using a control strip module.
<http://www.clarkwoodsoftware.com/csmpack/>
This Apple Event interface, and an earlier one for telling Peek-a-Boo about Temporary Memory usage, are now available for programmers using a newly-available SDK.
Peek-a-Bo 1.6 allows you to start typing a process name and it selects that process. This feature has been frequently requested, and we're glad to announce its availability.
Peek-a-Boo 1.6 also allows left- and right-arrow keypresses to cycle through processes in the order that they're located in memory. This can make it easier to select specific processes when you're trying to make a contiguous range of memory available.
Several minor bugs have been fixed.
**** Download and contact information ****
Peek-a-Boo 1.6 is available now. Download links and more information are available at the Peek-a-Boo web site:
<http://www.clarkwoodsoftware.com/peekaboo/>
Inquiries, comments, and questions may be directed to:
