Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, Productivity, Apple, Microsoft
Sloth loves Chunk, and we love Sloth for Mac
by Drew Olanoff Jul 2nd 2008
One of the only features some of us here like about Windows is that you can alt-ctrl-del and look at the open tasks and programs running at any given time.It's nice to know what's sucking up all of your memory (pr0n) and what's bogging down your processor (DVD burning).
Sloth for Mac OS X shows us exactly what's running, Windows style.
You can see which application is running which process, reveal the directory it's running out of, and kill it off if you want. If you're super geeky and/or bored you can even look at the IP and Unix sockets to see what application is connecting to the interwebs at any given time.
This is a really handy dandy tool, and the source is available too for monkeying...er, slothing around.
One of the better parts about Sloth is that it's a Cocoa app, and runs nice and slick on your Mac.
[via chris pirillo]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
