SOFTWARE OF THE DAY - IFREEMEM & SIDENOTE

Hi All, Shareware of the Day: iFreeMem - The Memory Optimizer for Mac OS X. If you are in the middle of using an application and the system becomes unresponsive for several seconds it could be the memory manager working and claiming back some of the Inactive memory for your application to use, if you wish to avoid this then iFreeMem may be for you. Some scenarios where iFreeMem can be useful: You have been busy on your laptop preparing for a presentation meeting and you would rather not have the system become unresponsive in the middle of your demo, might be worth running iFreeMem shortly before the meeting. You are a musician or DJ, about to do a live performance or session using your Mac, you want to ensure everything will run smoothly and on cue. You have just closed down a whole load of applications as you are just about to start a new task with different applications, you might want to use iFreeMem here. You are about to run some memory hungry applications, such as graphic design software packages (Photoshop, Flash etc) Your CPU is not working hard at all, yet you are convinced your Mac used to run a little quicker when you first got it, could it be that the activity of your startup items cause Inactive memory to fill-up when you log-in, and your memory hungry applications are having to grab Inactive memory back fairly soon, making them appear to run much slower? You have low 'Free' memory and high 'Inactive' memory and you want to test if your applications performs better with more 'Free' memory. You just have a specific application you wish to run as fast as possible without memory manager interruptions. Ideally, you would like to buy more memory, but its too expensive. This app might be a solution for a performance degradation you could have been experiencing when Free memory gets very low. More info and download link here: <http://www.activata.co.uk/products/ifreemem.html> Freeware of the Day: Sidenote - Notes when you need them, gone when you don't. Sidenote tries to catch the “Stickies” spirit but in the form of a multi-document drawer that will hide in the corner of your screen (left or right). You can use it to take all your daily notes, include images and easily modify text color and font. Sidenote will automatically expand so that you will be able to drag into it any picture, text clipping or pdf file from the finder or your favorite application. Sporting notes auto-saving, you’ll never have to save your notes. Sidenote will handle that for you. You can also print them or export them to rtf. More info and download link here: <http://www.chatelp.org/?page_id=5> Regards... Gordon