> When I first saw the System 7 Finder's "About This Macintosh"
> display, I thought it looked really cool. Then I tried to make it DO
> something, like switch me to an application when I clicked its icon.
> I was somewhat disappointed when nothing happened. I was even more
> disappointed to find I couldn't make the display appear
> automatically when I started up the Mac! So, out of frustration, I
> decided to write my own version.
>
> The result is About, a process monitor. Its appearance is an
> unabashed knockoff of the Finder's display; but unlike that display,
> you can actually use About to interact with your processes and get
> information on them. A little arrow appears next to the current
> process. Clicking an icon switches you to its process, and option-
> clicking an icon hides or shows that process, just like the Hide and
> Show commands in the application menu. You can customize the display
> in many ways--use large icons if you prefer, or arrange the
> processes by their location in memory to reveal the "holes" in your
> address space.
>
> Other commands allow you to monitor background-only processes, view
> CPU load, create an "icon palette" of your favorite applications,
> find a running application's location on disk, and force other
> processes to quit. About can also maintain a log of application
> activity.
>
> And as an extra added bonus for the Internet community, About warns
> you if you have more than 8 MB of physical RAM installed, but
> haven't enabled 32-bit addressing.
>
> About is FREE.
