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Daily Mac App: App Tamer

by Samuel Gibbs (Oct 25th, 2011)

Last week we covered BatterySqueezer, an app designed to throttle browser processes when backgrounded. Today we'll take a look at App Tamer, a similar non-Mac App Store app that takes things further. App Tamer goes beyond throttling and will actually put applications into suspended animation. ...

Keep your CPU under control with App Tamer

by Brett Terpstra (Sep 17th, 2010)

It's been a little while since we've heard from St. Clair Software, makers of the well-known system utility, Default Folder X (which we've covered before). You may recall that we caught up with St. Clair Software developer Jon Gotow at WWDC '09. Well, he's got something new to announce today: App ...