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From : nyforster@aol.com
To : letters@macuser.ziff.com, letters@macworld.com,
letters@macweek.ziff.com, letters@infoworld.com
cc :
Subj. : Multitask Mac/Status, A Mac CPU multitask Monitor & More.
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Status Status, by Bead Boutique Software( BBSW),
is a Mac CPU MultiTask
Monitor, password protected screen saver, text and
picture file viewer and color text editor. The self
extracting archive is ~ 200k in size and can be
downloaded through America On Line from the Zedcor
Shareware section, or from the University of Michigan
FTP file service, Shareware section. The application
can be opened 10 times in demo mode. You can call
BBSW Monday thru Friday between 2 and 8 pm Eastern
Time to pay the $19 shareware fee (using Visa or
Master Card). For the fee, you get a unique registration
code that will allow you to register the demo version
and disable the "PLEASE REGISTER" dialog messages.
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Capability
Multitasking
Monitor The Macintosh can be run as a reliable, multi-tasking
computer if you use applications that have been
designed to run in a multitasking environment. The
problem is, until now you could not identify those
applications that were multi-tasking aware! Status
shows you which applications are multi-tasking aware
by displaying the remaining free CPU cycles (Sometimes
called free "Ticks" or free "Null Events") that
are left for other applications to use. Make an
Alias to Status and place it in your System's Start
Up Items folder to launch this application each
time you start up your computer. The bar chart shows
how active your CPU is, doing background tasks.
The number of free ticks are sampled for one second
once every 10 second? The last free ticks sample
is displayed as a number between 0 and 60 just below
and to the right of the bar chart.
File Viewer
&Text Editor Status will open,display and/or print simple or
complex (style/color) text, or PICT files. TEXT
or PICT files can be opened using Drag and Drop
methods from the finder or using a standard "Open..."
Dialog technique. Style/color text documents can
be created up to 16 pages in length. Simple "Fade
to Black" screen saver and Password "Screen Lock"
features are also included.
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Extras We have included several small applications that demonstrate
good background tasking capability. Cray is a 20k
desk accessory that samples the image on the right
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side of screen and displays it in a magnifiable
window. Cray then scrolls down the image in foreground
or background modes. Hyper Magnifier, another 20k
DA, samples random locations on your screen and
displays them in a Magifiable window. After running
Status, you will be able to copy and run as many
copies of these applications as you wish. Notice
that when running in the background, they still
hand back the Free Ticks for the operating system
to allocate to other applications.
Now run your own favorite applications and see how
well they do at handing back Null Events to the
operating system. If Status indicates any of your
applications are "CPU HOGS", contact the developer
of that application and tell them to clean up their
code! Better yet, tell them to download their own
copy of Status so that it will inform them immediately
when they have solved the problem.
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DownLoad
Locations You can download a Self Extracting
Archive of these applications
and their help files (MultiTask_Mac.sea) from:
America On Line's, ZEDCOR FutureBasic forum from
the ShareWare Sub directory,
(Find using keyword = ZEDCOR)
or
as a binhex version from "umich.ftp.shareware" library
as MultiTask_Mac.sea.hqx
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Sincerely, Nyann Forster (nyforster@aol.com)
Bead Boutique Software (BBSW)
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