App Stop is a little status bar that resides in your menu bar that allows you to pause, resume, and set priorities for your applications. When you pause an application it freezes it, keeping all the memory assoicated with the application intact but stopping the application from using any CPU cycles. Resuming a paused application lets it once again use the CPU, essentially un-freezing it. For older machines with limited CPU, but an abundance of memory this is very usefull because it allows you to free up that precious CPU time to help other applications run faster. Setting priority's for applications allows you to specify which applications should have 'first dibs' on the CPU, allowing some applications to run faster, while others simply run slower.

App Stop features a table view mode that allows you to select mutiple application to pause/continue, set CPU priority, as well as force-quit them. App Stop will also automatically continue all your processes when App Stop terminates.

New in this version:
-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

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