What's new in Keep-It-Up-X 3.0
Keep-It-Up-X 3.0 is exclusively designed for use with MacOS X. Because
OS X is internally very different from OS 9, KIU 3.0 had to be redesigned
to work under OS X and exploit it's powerful new features. Though KIU 3.0
looks very similar to KIU 2.x, it may function differently in subtle ways.
Here's a list of differences with KIU 2.x
General
- The little KIU window has gone
- The KIU Startup Items, Weblog Items,Weblaunch Items, Log File and
KIU preferencescan now be found in the following location: /yourhomedirectory/Library/preferences
- You can open the KIU Startup Items, Weblog Items and Weblaunch
Items by selecting the Open ItemFolders Menu
- Launch Services: If KIU needs to launch a document alias and the creator
application is not available, KIU will now search for alternative apps which
may be able to open the document. Basically, KIU should use the same application
as if the document was opened from the finder.
- when "Ask password on quit" is enabled, the Quit Keep-It-Up
menu item will be greyed out. Use the PW Quit menu item to quit KIU
in this case.
- the Free Memory Alarm Trigger is not implemented in KIU 3.0
Remote Management
- General System Info
- the system load now accurately reflects the average processor
load over the past few minutes. On single CPU systems this number is more
or less equivalent to a percentage of available processor power, e.g. a load
of 70 means the CPU is used for 70%. KIU indicates if the load is low, medium
or high by changing color from green to red
- the volume table gives much more information, such as Free
Space, Volume Size, number of Files, number of Directories, Volume Last modified
- Processes
- you can Force Quit any MacOS
X application. This will not work with Classic Applications. Use only for
applications which don't respond to a regular Quit command.
- The Process Table no longer contains anything but the Process Name
- Shutdown & Restart
- The clean vs. forced shutdown/restart commands work in a
slightly different way from version 2.x. Both clean and forced commands
now work identical, except that a forced command will force
quit any application which does not respond to a regular quit request
in a timely manner. This makes the use of the forced commands less risky,
though you can still lose unsaved data. Because there's no Okey-Dokey for
OS X, the forced shutdown/restart may be preferable to the clean shutdown
- You can Force Quit the Classic Environment. This will also
force quit any Classic Applications which may be running.
- Launch Applications / Open documents
- The Weblaunch Items can now contain application aliases and
document aliases (or even anything that can be launched by double
clicking on it from the finder)