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DESCRIPTION
App Stop is a powerful application engineered to allow you to take control of the applications running on your computer, increasing the speed of your computer. App Stop allows you to peform many operations on your applications such as pausing, setting processor priority, and force quitting. App Stop is great for people with slower computers, or for people who run processor hungry applications (such as video editors), who need to squeeze every ounce of speed out of their computer.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.1:
  • Priority slider now increases priority when moved to the right, and decreases when moved to the left
  • Improved Application Manager UI
  • Updated preferences to look and work more like Safari & Mail.app's preferences
  • When items in the menu-bar list are paused they are now colored red instead of displaying "(Stopped)"
  • Added 'All' filter criteria
  • Less frequent nagging for demo users (every 2 days)
  • Improved crash/bug reporting (now outputs stack traces and notifies user of exceptions)
  • You can now specify a global shortcut that can be used to bring the Application Manager forward
  • Improved 'hide and stop' reliability
  • Your filter criteria will now be preserved between App Stop startups
  • Totally rewrote the 'startup at login' code
  • Fixed a bug where the menu item would remain in 'paused state' when an application that was paused was killed
  • Major memory usage enhancements
  • Minor performance enhancements
Full changelog available here
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Developer:Michael Bianco
Downloads:9,078
  - Version d/l:2,800
Utilities:Optimizers
License:Shareware
Date:08 Dec 2006
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$15.00
RATING
****½

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Feb 27 2008

ZANGIEF  Does anyone still have the old free version? I don't have $15 for this, and I don't care if it's out of date, either.  
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Dec 28 2008

SPRINGHEELMAC  Have you tried 'Freezer'? Its on this site, similar and free.  
(Version 2.1)

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Dec 28 2008

ZANGIEF  Thanks, I found that recently. :-)  
(Version 2.1)

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Dec 28 2008

SPRINGHEELMAC  Have you tried 'Freezer'? Its on this site, similar and free.  
(Version 2.1)

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Dec 28 2008

SPRINGHEELMAC  Whoops... Damn slow connection. I hate it when that happens. :P  
(Version 2.1)

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Dec 28 2008

ZANGIEF  That's something... a double-submit so slow that the second one comes in after the reply. Awesome.  
(Version 2.1)

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Dec 5 2007

GHHCYBERUS  I just downloaded this application. I get a message that tells me my 30 day demo is over, and I need to make a purchase. What is this?  
(Version 2.1)

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Dec 8 2006

CORTLAND  I still have the freeware version on my computer. It's not a bad app, though now that I have a faster G5, I don't use it.  
(Version 2.1)

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Jan 31 2008

ZANGIEF  Not to be a bother, but mind sending it to me? I can't find it anywhere after FWM pulled it.

jellyfish.cory@gmail.com  
(Version 2.1)

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Nov 13 2006

BRYAN LAW  It is a sad day when a good freeware app goes to shareware...  
(Version 2.0)

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Dec 8 2006

ST00P!D M0NK3Y  Yes. I pretty much removed it off my computer because of the incessant nagging asking me to pay during the entire 30 day trial period (EVERY TIME I TURNED ON THE COMPUTER!). It only took a few days of that nonsense to give up on this app. The annoying nagging of the trial period is really unnecessary.  
(Version 2.1)

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Nov 13 2006

AQTINC  This app is a great idea. As someone that runs Virtual PC and Parallels, there are times when it would be nice to suspend a CPU-hungry Windows job running in the background.

Yeah, I know that you can set that preference in both VPC and Parallels, but this app is for those times when you didn't know what you were getting into and then want to override your preferences.

I hope the UB issues can get resolved soon.  
(Version 2.0)

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Nov 13 2006

ILOVEITALY  App Stop 2.0 is now compatible with Intel Macs. If you are experiencing any difficulty with running App Stop on your Intel mac please let me know.  
(Version 2.0)

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Nov 13 2006

MOK.IN.TOUCH™  $15.00? Over priced.  
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Nov 13 2006

ILOVEITALY  You can purchase it for $10 during the next two weeks.  
(Version 2.0)

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Nov 13 2006

HAGOUN  Open Terminal :

kill -s STOP xxx (where xxx is app id)

kill -s CONT xxx to resume  
(Version 1.1)

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Oct 4 2006

ST00P!D M0NK3Y  Please make a Universal Binary version of this great app! :(  
(Version 1.1)

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Aug 12 2006

LUHMANN  Web site says it has Universal Binary support but is untested. I don't know if this is an intel issue or not, but it quits on launch on my intel MacBook...

I love the app on my G5! I hope it can be fixed.  
(Version 1.1)

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May 29 2006
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MORPE  on run app stop and this crash, on consolle log report this error:

App Stop[1012] R+W for /Users/morpe denied.

my permision on file and on OS is OK, :(

i run it on iMac G5 10.4.6  
(Version 1.1)

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