Peek A Boo

Peek-a-Boo is a utility to monitor and manipulate all running processes. You can watch how much CPU time each process uses, adjust the CPU time requested by each process, and look at any piece of information available through the Process Manager. The Process Manager (available in MacOS System 7 and later) maintains a dozen or so pieces of information about each running process (normally an application); many fine utilities show a subset of this information. My personal motivation for writing Peek-a-Boo was that no existing utility showed precisely the subset of Process Manager information I needed to know at a given time. So I made sure that Peek-a-Boo can show any piece of information available via the Process Manager; preferences can be edited to view only those pieces of information you need. And, with the Special Technology of Peek-a-Boo ST, you can now adjust the priorities of processes to customize which processes get more processor time. Peek-a-Boo 1.6 offers a new Apple Event interface for programmers. CSM Pack and ramBunctious both use different aspects of this interface. Peek-a-Boo 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.