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- From : nyforster@aol.com
- To : letters@macuser.ziff.com, letters@macworld.com,
- letters@macweek.ziff.com, letters@infoworld.com
- cc :
- Subj. : multitask Mac/Status, A Mac CPU multitask Monitor & More.
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- Status Status, by Bead Boutique Software( BBSW), is a Mac CPU MultiTask
- Monitor, password protected screen saver, text and
- picture file viewer and color text editor. The self
- extracting archive is ~ 300k in size and can be
- downloaded through America On Line from the Utility
- Forum section, or from the University of Michigan
- Info-Mac FTP server or its mirrors. The application
- can be opened 6 times in demo mode. You can call
- BBSW Monday thru Friday between 3 and 11 pm Eastern
- Time to pay the $19 shareware fee (using Visa or
- Master Card). For the fee, you get a unique registration
- code that will allow you to register the demo version
- and disable the "PLEASE REGISTER" dialog messages.
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- Capability
- Multitasking
- Monitor The Macintosh can be run as a reliable, multi-tasking
- computer if you use applications that have been
- designed to run in a multitasking environment. The
- problem is, until now you could not identify those
- applications that were multi-tasking aware! Status
- shows you which applications are multi-tasking aware
- by displaying the remaining free CPU cycles (Sometimes
- called free "Ticks" or free "Null Events") that
- are left for other applications to use. Make an
- Alias to Status and place it in your System's Start
- Up Items folder to launch this application each
- time you start up your computer. The bar chart shows
- how active your CPU is, doing background tasks.
- The number of free ticks are sampled for one second
- once every 10 second? The last free ticks sample
- is displayed as a number between 0 and 60 just below
- and to the right of the bar chart.
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- File Viewer
- &Text Editor Status will open,display and/or print simple or
- complex (style/color) text, or PICT files. TEXT
- or PICT files can be opened using Drag and Drop
- methods from the finder or using a standard "Open..."
- Dialog technique. Style/color text documents can
- be created up to 16 pages in length. Find/Find Again
- and Read Text Too Me features are included. Simple
- "Fade to Black" screen saver and Password "Screen
- Lock" features are also included.
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- Extras We have included several small applications that demonstrate
- good background tasking capability. Cray is a 20k
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- desk accessory that samples the image on the right
- side of screen and displays it in a magnifiable
- window. Cray then scrolls down the image in foreground
- or background modes. Hyper Magnifier, another 20k
- DA, samples random locations on your screen and
- displays them in a Magifiable window. After running
- Status, you will be able to copy and run as many
- copies of these applications as you wish. Notice
- that when running in the background, they still
- hand back the Free Ticks for the operating system
- to allocate to other applications.
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- Now run your own favorite applications and see how
- well they do at handing back Null Events to the
- operating system. If Status indicates any of your
- applications are "CPU HOGS", contact the developer
- of that application and tell them to clean up their
- code! Better yet, tell them to download their own
- copy of Status so that it will inform them immediately
- when they have solved the problem.
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- DownLoad
- Locations You can download a Self Extracting Archive of these applications
- and their help files (MultiTask_Status.sea) from:
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- America On Line's, Utilities forum from the Software
- Sub directory,
- (Find using keywords = Computing Utilities)
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- as a binhex version from Stanford's "InfoMac" libraries
- as MultiTask_Status_sea.hqx
- ____________________________________________
- Sincerely, Nyann Forster (nyforster@aol.com)
- Bead Boutique Software (BBSW)
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