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.