Appriority: prioritize applications for OS X

With the advent of OS X Mavericks in autonomy, as well as in the distribution of the load on the processor by various applications, Apple's system is markedly increased. Operating time on a single charge of laptops has grown, and currently unused steel applications consume much less energy than before. Nevertheless, hidden from the application user somehow lead a passive life - ie work, but a maximum of half of its capacity. The more interesting the hero of our review - Appriority application that performs the same task as the App Nap, but a little differently.

On one of the applications of Alaska - norther Softworks - I already wrote. In that article, I took to the downside interface application, which was, to put it mildly, nevzrachen. Therefore miracles from Appriority I did not expect. And he was right. The utility looks quite clumsy compared to the thousands of others that are in the Mac App Store and on the websites of third-party developers. But in this case we are interested in is the functionality of the application rather than its appearance. Beautiful wrapper - it is certainly nice, but a stable and correct work is more important, in my opinion.

So, what is interesting Appriority and what are its benefits compared to the App Nap function? Let's understand how to start running second. The company from Cupertino has always been able to do the software so that the work of system processes and applications will not be visible to the user. Optimization - a keyword that relates to their products. App Nap technology works just as well - the interaction with the system, you do not see it working, but it has an important role to save battery life. If you work with the active window or browser tab, but he (she) will be provided with all available system resources while inactive windows / tabs / programs do not perform any important operations will be in a semblance of sleep mode and thus consume less resources and energy. Once you decide to switch to them - they will be immediately available and ready for use, while the application you were working with just that, leave itself into "sleep mode".

It works all perfectly and, most importantly, effective. It would seem that the more interesting things to offer developers for saving energy in the system? On Appriority example, it becomes clear that it is.

When you first start the utility she pomzhet you to make a diagnosis and to identify the applications that consume the most resources - necessary for further automatic optimization. However, you yourself have the ability to specify what applications Appriority need to go to "sleep" while you are not working with them. You can sort the applications according to their load on the system, and then, after identifying those that consume the most - bring suspended list. And here, I must say, the fun begins. Unlike the App Nap application "fall asleep" much deeper. They were given to the most low priority, so an inactive application window will not consume virtually no resources. In this lies the main disadvantage: in order to wake up such an application, take much longer than the App Nap.

Appriority - is, in fact, the team "renice"In UNIX-based systems, but with a graphical interface. Appriority principle use can be, for example, this: you are going to play any game, which will require additional resources from your system, and not to close all active applications, you advance make up their list, and enter to the utility. When the game starts they will go into a deep sleep, giving free resources for the running game. Thus, at the end of Appriority gameplay would be better to turn off, because each awakening the sleeping process will take a little bit of your time.

The application is distributed through two shops: the Mac App Store at a price of 99 rubles and website developer for $ 10. This difference is due to the fact that the version of the application store of Apple is somewhat limited in functionality. Therefore, when choosing the version I would recommend to look at the developer page and download a trial version of the product.

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Appriority

Developer: Northern Softworks

Price: 229 rubles