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App Tamer tames applications that are chewing up excessive CPU time and battery life on your Mac. Its unique "AutoStop" feature will stop an application when you switch away from it, and then automatically restart it when you click back to it.
App Tamer includes an attractive and clear user interface for managing your running applications. It shows the average percentage of your processor(s) being used by each app, and graphically displays a history of CPU usage. You can easily enable AutoStop for any application, as well as change its processing priority in OS X.
App Tamer includes an attractive and clear user interface for managing your running applications. It shows the average percentage of your processor(s) being used by each app, and graphically displays a history of CPU usage. You can easily enable AutoStop for any application, as well as change its processing priority in OS X.
What's New
Version 1.2.1:
- App Tamer could fail to get all information about some applications (such as their icons or process identifiers) while OS X was very busy. This could result in AutoStop not working with those applications until you quit and relaunched App Tamer.
- The menubar menu did not work correctly under Mac OS 10.5. This has been fixed.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
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App Tamer tames applications that are chewing up excessive CPU time and battery life on your Mac. Its unique "AutoStop" feature will stop an application when you switch away from it, and then automatically restart it when you click back to it.
App Tamer includes an attractive and clear user interface for managing your running applications. It shows the average percentage of your processor(s) being used by each app, and graphically displays a history of CPU usage. You can easily enable AutoStop for any application, as well as change its processing priority in OS X.
App Tamer includes an attractive and clear user interface for managing your running applications. It shows the average percentage of your processor(s) being used by each app, and graphically displays a history of CPU usage. You can easily enable AutoStop for any application, as well as change its processing priority in OS X.
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S/ash reviewed on 04 Apr 2012
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Ilnonnovinci reviewed on 21 Feb 2012
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What's New
Version 1.1.2:
* Dropped PowerPC support
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According to Activity Monitor, the process called lsof is to blame.
And this is the newest version, I just downloaded it yesterday.
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That said, there's still a chance that 'lsof' (an OS X utility) might still use higher amounts of CPU on some machines. Please contact us for tech support via email if you run into this problem - it's something that I'm still trying to chase down.
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Vinkri reviewed on 06 Dec 2011
it gives you the ability to "silence" apps in background without killing them, which means that when you bring one of these apps windows up front, it revives and it is fully functional.
Do you need it? Well, only if you have the habit to launch many resource consuming applications.
I do. And when I need all my hardware focused on one task, App Tamer is very useful.
Plus, it's quite cheap.
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The only problem is that such a tool (running in background all time) takes itself some cpu % to manage the cpu load savings.
Would be nice if the dev tries to optimize the app step by step in the future - lot of work but makes the tool more recommendable.
The tool has less cpu usage, no prob but it would be better to get it even more less and use 64 Bit.
http://www.stclairsoft.com/download/AppTamer-1.1d1.zip
If you close the "Details" drawer in this version, CPU usage should stay near zero the whole time.
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I have one significant issue with this app that is making me want to just turn it off and/or uninstall it... when App Tamer stops programs like Firefox or Illustrator, clicking on them in the Dock DOES NOT take me to their window NOR does it resume the program. I have to manually navigate to the app's window and click on the app to get it to resume. Otherwise it just shows up as "not responding".
I am hoping there is something to resolve this, because if it is disabling navigating to applications in my Dock, it will have to go. I am thinking maybe it could be related to HyperDock since I saw something about that earlier, but I am looking for confirmation and an ETA to when this would be resolved if it is a conflict between the two applications...
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Great program from a great developer!!
Fotografefx rated on 15 May 2012
bckrtbs rated on 07 May 2012
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kristinks rated on 23 Apr 2012
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