Press Release 840 Published by

app4mac today released CheckUp Preview 2, an innovative tool to check the health of a Mac computer. Built from the ground up with Mac OS X technologies, CheckUp features powerful tools to monitor the behavior and health of a Mac computer. It's a powerful and intelligent monitoring applicaton for any Mac with PowerPC or Intel Processors. CheckUp is useful for business and home environment.



The computer monitoring software allows you to view the activities of a Mac and control the health with an innovative user interface.

"We are very excited to release the second preview version of CheckUp, we improved a lot of functions with the feedback of Mac users" said Greg Arrigton, the marketing manager. "With its use of latest Mac OS X technologies, breakthrough ease-of-use, innovation, we think all Mac users will find the new preview version of CheckUp very useful and fun."

CheckUp is designed to monitor the usage of CPU, Memory, Disk Drives and Network Adapters and alert you when a certain resource exceeds a certain value. You can create usage reports and displays detailed information about all running processes. You can delete or terminate these with ease. By adding rules that will be triggered when certain conditions are met for a specified resource on a computer, you can have notifications visually presented via the famous growl notification system.

CheckUp can also help you to determine if your Mac OS X Mac can run Mac OS X Leopard or determine if your Mac have enough memory to run the operating system and all your Applications.

The graphical user interface is designed with a top priority on high usability in mind. Unlike other competing products it takes a very short time to setup your environment.

CheckUp is based on Core Image and OpenGL technologies that use Mac's video card for image rendering. Core Image and OpenGL utilize the graphics card for image processing operations, freeing the CPU for other tasks. And if a high-performance card with increased video memory (VRAM) is present, the user will find real-time responsiveness across a wide variety of CheckUp operations. CheckUp is lightning-fast on the latest Intel-based Macs.

Other notable feature: CheckUp is able to monitor a remote Mac from the local network or via internet. It's a powerful feature for IT administrators.

Requirements:
CheckUp is optimized for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. CheckUp is optimized for Macs with PowerPC or Intel processors (Universal binary).

Pricing and Availability:
From December 10th 2007 up to the end of January 2008, Mac users can use CheckUp for free. During this beta period, is needing bug reports and feedback to make the best product!

Users can order a user license at a special introductory price: only $29 USD. This offer is valid until December 31 th 2007. The user license will only works with the final version of CheckUp (planned for the end of January 2008).

app4mac: http://www.app4mac.com
CheckUp: http://www.app4mac.com/checkup.html


app4mac is a company created in 2001 with the goal of providing innovative applications for Mac OS X. We take great pleasure building Mac products. We are committed to creating quality software that will make the Mac even more user-friendly.