On Friday , St. Clair Software announced the initial release ofApp Tamer , a Mac app program geared towards giving you a faster computeranda longer - hold out barrage fire through the magic of not - make - your - mack - workplace - as - hard .
Behind the scenes , deep in the meat of OS X , all Macs have the potentiality of temporarily halting any running lotion . This drop its CPU usage to zero , which gibe to the above increases in organization functioning and stamp battery life history . However , you need some flake attainment ( or geeky utilities ) to halt applications , and you have to manually wake them up before they can be utile again . App Tamer aims to provide the best of both human race .
App Tamer will automatically cease any program program you choose when it is in the background , and automatically bring it back to its full vitality when you bring it back to the foreground . you’re able to select which applications are cease , how long the pause should be before this pass , and whether this should happen all the sentence , or only when you ’re run off shelling mogul . App Tamer can also helpfully grey out the window of paused applications to remind you that they ’ve been halted .
I have been testing App Tamer for the last hour or so , and unlike all of the halting utilities I ’ve tried ( or invented ) before , App Tamer is pure addition with no pain . There ’s almost no lag time when halting or resuming an app . The only trouble in Shangri-la : a dispute between App Tamer and Mac Gem Witch from Many Tricks Software , which has fuss dealing with halted applications . ( Not the fault of either Many Tricks or St. Clair , it ’s just how these covering are build . )
AppTamer requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or gamy , and costs $ 15 for the first license , or $ 12 each for multiple computers . A 15 - day complimentary trial run is available .
