I began to notice that some applications on my Mac from time to time are waging a fierce fight for the computer resources. So today I would like to express my gratitude to the wonderful program that helps me work more efficiently.

This "miracle" is a utility Blitz, designed for all users running heavy applications.They are sometimes really difficult to roll over among many smaller processes, thus, contribute to this wide variety of factors: from the amount of RAM, and ending with high-speed characteristics of the hard disk.

In this case, Blitz can focus on this "monster", resulting in a large layout in Photoshop or three-dimensional rendering to be processed relatively quickly. Utility artificially inhibits the "all other processes in the system by allocating all available resources for a specific process or processes, if more than one.

Immediately after launching the application in the menu bar you will see its icon. If you click the mouse on it, then the menu will display a list of all running applications (for obvious reasons, the system processes the utility does not obey), but at the very top of the list - the current program.

If you select this menu item «Focus on», then next to the names of all other programs will pause icon, their windows will be slightly blurry, but take away their resources in this case the Finder. Undo can focus point «Defocus».

The user can "slow down" certain applications by selecting them in the list.

Subjectively, on my computer, I felt a performance boost!

I will say this - I was satisfied with the program Blitz.

Thanks to the developers for a very useful product!

Best Regards Vitaly!

I switched to App Tamer. Blitz is dead. I'm tired of throwing money at developers who don't care for their apps and fix long-term bugs.

I asked the developer whether Blitz worked on Snow Leopard; he said it does, and he was right. Now I can listen to an iTunes playlist while working on photos in Lightroom, and still not have to restart the computer every 45 minutes or so. And I can leave Lightroom open in the background if I need to deal with incoming mail. I think this application is worth buying.

Got this via MacHeist for free. That was much too expensive. Locked up every app, took a looooong time to get it to quit. I deleted it with extreme prejudice and hope I never see it again.

I love Cunning Fox too, that was one of very useful renice utility ever made for OS X with none-intrusive UI design.

And just how many times do we have to learn another dopey name for this plain app? I thought at least "Freeze Frame" (and its camera icon paired with the shutter sound) was meaningful and way more creative to explain the idea of "freeze apps". I dislike the new flower icon, it made no connection to the name Bokeh or Blitz or the process of renice whatsoever, and it looks like the Fire Flower from the Super Mario Bros, too.