MenuBall 2.3.1 review

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MenuBall is an absolutely useless control panel that puts a bouncing ball in your menu bar.

License: Freeware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 25K
Developer: Alessandro Levi Montalcini
Price: $0.00
Updated: 01 Feb 2006
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MenuBall is an absolutely useless control panel that puts a bouncing ball in your menu bar. It won't slow down your Mac and it shouldn't crash (but use it at your own risk). Should the ball ever leave a mark in your menu bar, don’t panic: it is harmless, just switch to another application to have the menu bar redrawn properly.

There's only one smart use for MenuBall: since the ball moves one step at each WaitNextEvent call, you can use it to monitor the system activity. If the ball stops, the Mac probably won't respond to user actions and may even be hung; if it moves slowly, the front application is being friendly to other processes and giving up a lot of processor time; if it moves fast, then the front application is eating most of the CPU time (and possibly wasting it).

If you can stand MenuBall for more than half an hour, you've earned it.

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