Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware
Process Lasso helps you rope in unruly Windows applications
by Brad Linder Jan 18th 2008
Process Lasso does a couple of things. It can sit in your system tray and do nothing at all until an application meets certain conditions, like eating up more than 35% of your CPU cycles. Then Process Lasso goes and lowers that proces's priority. But you can also set it to do a bunch of other things including:
- Limit applications so that they only use one CPU on multi-core systems
- Set an application to run at a certain priority every time they run
- Configure the programs that launch on startup
- Kill currently running processes
- Log all executed processes
[via Lifehacker]
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
