Cunning Fox

Version: 1.0.5 || Release Date: 2006-10-16 || License: Shareware ($14.95) Developer: Donnelleschi Software

Cunning Fox is a tool to stop and continue the running applications under mac os x, so that you can "pause" other applications to gain optimal performance for a specific application moreover it also provides information about applications such as CPU usage, memory etc...

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zuluwalker, 2007-06-05 (score: 2)

It's too bad this app is for PPC only, how about sharing the love to us Intel users?

...can't wait for that day to come.

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roeme, 2007-03-27

Quite useful. I use it to circumvent the time needed for starting up or closing cpu or memory intense application in order to work with others smoothly. Way faster to switch between applications (see groxx' gaming example), and also allows the OS to page out memory allocated by the stopped applications (afaik). So, speeds up the other applications not only by freeing cpu time.

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celestialwarrior, 2007-01-02 (score: 1)

I would really like an option to hide the little C square. I haven't used this app in ages due to this, but correct me if I'm wrong... that square appears on top of EVERYTHING... including full screen movies... Why not do like EVERY OTHER APP and have an option to put it up in the menubar, or have it be hotkey only...?

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zach, 2006-12-29

doesn't seem to have intel support... damn it.

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groxx, 2006-10-18

Very handy at times. I can literally pause my CPU-eating game to work on something else, and then reverse the process to maximize gaming. And I like how tiny it is in the corner, great design, and extremely unobtrusive (to echo erichd). I may have to buy this soon...

Only one thing seems odd, and that's that the CPU% display isn't limited to one decimal place... sometimes I'll get enormous decimals.

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erichd, 2006-10-17

What I like most about this app is it's unobtrusive nature... it's always on, so it's insanely quick and easy to use for "pausing" open applications while I do something CPU intensive. Saves me the hassle of closing and reopening the big apps I use frequently.

Very detailed interface.

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vitality2k2, 2006-10-16

This is a good multi-tasking tool which allows you to be as efficient as possible with your computer's processing power when working on multiple projects in multiple programs. It allows you to suspend a program's memory needs to boost the rest of the running programs without having to quit and restart and programs. Any time my mac is on, so is Cunning Fox.