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Quick Check: What Programs Are Open On Your Mac?I’ve always been a believer in extra RAM; as much RAM as affordable at the time. The more RAM that’s open, the better applications will run, and more applications can be open at the same time. Mac OS X Panther is arguably the most stable and dependable Mac OS ever and I find I’m opening, and leaving open, more Mac applications, utilities, and accessories than ever before. Even my menu bar has more utility applications than I would dare consider running under Mac OS 9. Check your Mac right now. What are you running? What’s open and ready? Here’s my list (tempered somewhat by the fact that this is a new PowerMac G5 with 4 gigs of RAM). Your mileage may vary. Mail and Safari Other Browsers System Utilities I’ve also got iSync running in the Menu Bar with You Control’s iTunes application (the free one). That’s about the easiest place to control iTunes without using Expose’ and having to sort through windows. Always Open Applications • DragThing: The application launcher; my Mac is centered around it. Those are just the applications that start up when the PowerMac starts up. Almost Always Open Applications • Fireworks: Used for most of our web site graphics, not photos. Apple Applications • iTunes: if you’re listening to music on the Mac it’s iTunes. Not always open but always available and used regularly are SuperDuper (for backups), Microsoft Word and Excel (it’s that link to “compatibility” that binds us to Windows users in the business world), Stuffit (for decompressing, not compressing), and BBEdit (gets used in spurts). That’s what’s running right now on my Mac. How about yours? If you’re short on RAM it’s likely you won’t have as many open applications as can be handled in 4 gigabytes. Our recent survey indicates that most Mac users double the RAM that came with their Macs. And for good reason. There’s never enough. What’s running on your Mac right now? Care to share the list? If so, click on Comments below to share, click on Feedback at the bottom of the page to share anonymously. Editor’s Note: Whoa. Check the Comments section. I’m impressed with how many readers have soooooo many open applications running on their Macs. Just for grins—check with your Windows friends to see how many open applications they’re running on Windows. Off Topic Note: I’ve updated the Mac360 Store with over 100 new categories—More Macs, more iPods, more Mac books, more software. Click Here and select any category for more detail, or use the handy search function. Whenever you buy from Amazon through the Mac360 Store you help support Mac360. Click Here to save almost $10 on the new version of Photoshop Elements, and almost $20 on the latest version of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, available now from the Mac360 Store (it’s really Amazon). Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Entourage and more—barely $50 more than Apple’s iWork ‘08. Save money and support Mac360 at the same time. • Article by Jack D. Miller • Published on Tuesday, October 12, 2004
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