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Peek-a-Boo 1.5 ST: 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 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 1.5 ST is a shareware ($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. Many people have found Peek-a-Boo particularly useful for the "Special Technology" feature. When a web browser is using up too much CPU time when it should be idling, Peek-a-Boo can lower that process's priority. 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: 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. **** Download and contact information **** Peek-a-Boo 1.5 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: peekaboo@clarkwoodsoftware.com Peek-a-Boo 1.5 copyright (c) 1993 - 1999 by Clarkwood Software