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Peek-A-Boo Peek-a-Boo Take control of your programs running on the Mac OS Clarkwood Software Focus Clarkwood Software is intrigued and excited by the SETI@Home project. See our Clarkwood Software and SETI@Home article for more information about how Clarkwood Software products mesh well with the goals of SETI@Home. Overview Peek-a-Boo Overview What is new in Peek-a-Boo 1.5? Peek-a-Boo 1.5 has an improved Special Technology mechanism. Its efficiency is improved, and certain processes that would not respond to earlier versions of Special Technology now respond admirably. Peek-a-Boo now has the capability to track Temporary Memory usage. (Temporary Memory is also known as the Process Manager Heap.) This new Temporary Memory support is visible in several places: The MemGraph column can now include Temp Mem in the graph. There is now a column to show exactly how much Temp Mem each process uses. There are now three additional options available when you open a Logging window, all relating to Temp Mem. A "Reveal in Finder" menu item has been added: when using System 7.5 or later, you can open the folder where a process's file is. Several cosmetic improvements, including fuller color support in the main window and new "techie" CPU history windows, have been implemented. Peek-a-Boo 1.5 now runs natively on PowerPC computers, with a performance improvement of about 15%. What is 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. If you want to experience Peek-a-Boo with Special Technology, please download it. Peek-a-Boo is shareware. You may register online at http:// order.kagi.com/?C9, or use the included "Register Peek-a-Boo" application to do the right thing. Special Technology Peek-a-Boo Special Technology Peek-a-Boo's "Special Technology" feature lets yo…