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#APP TAMER MAC PRO#
#APP TAMER MAC LICENSE#

That may seem like a lot, considering how little this app appears to do.

#APP TAMER MAC LICENSE#

If you decide you like it, a single license is currently US$14.95. That’s ample time to discover whether it’s going to tame your apps to your liking. *(The Apple IIe was the first computer I owned, in the 1980s).

#APP TAMER MAC PRO#

Chrome and Firefox-with Flash and a plethora of open tabs to boot-no longer revert my MacBook Pro to a computer with Apple IIe* performance. Three simple options that are rather ingenious.Īfter using it for a few months, I can say it really works. It provides the option to stop an app completely, or slow it down when it pushes CPU usage above a set limit, and also the option to only slow it down when hidden. I can say, however, that AppTamer is brilliant. To be honest, reading through it’s description, I was not convinced it would achieve what it promised, or at least not without causing system instability or some other issues caused by OS X and/or the feral apps reacting badly to being tamed. Introducing AppTamerĪ few months ago I started using AppTamer. You might have other undomesticated apps you find ramp up CPU usage, and drive down your Mac performance to a crawl. Much like Chrome, this is particularly true when many tabs are open, and if any of those tabs activated Flash)

Firefox (yep, the browser I’ve been using since before it was even called by this name, also likes to hammer away at the CPU.

Spotlight (another Apple feature that often slaughters the CPU).

Apple Mail (you’d think Apple could at least make their own proprietary Mail client behave itself).

Google Chrome, when more than a few tabs are open (especially if any of those tabs have activated the Flash Player plugin).

In my experience some of the biggest CPU munching culprits are: Until now, I’ve never had an answer to this issue of the wild unruly beasts within my computer.

Other times, the issue is that an app is in the background, unused for hours, and yet it’s chewing through CPU resources like it were busy calculating the size of the known universe.

Sometimes for short stints, and sometimes for so long I have to slay the beast entirely, least my computer come to a complete halt. OS X) is so readily brought to its knees by a some feral app that starts pounding the CPU into a “100%+ Usage” vulcan grip. a $2500+ high-end MacBook Pro) with a decent Unix based operating system (i.e. For years it’s driven me a tad crazy that a premium computer (i.e.