Comments on: Bokeh Review Giveaway – Concentration For You and Your Computer

By: Janice

Janice — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:30:50 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, Bokeh seems a fantastic app! When invoking the “Freeze Frame” capabilities, I would appreciate a sort of grey box that displays which apps are heaviest on the processing power.

By: sam

sam — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:22:33 +0000

There is a quicksilver plugin that does this and it’s free. You can also do it in terminal. For free.

By: Paul M

Paul M — Thu, 29 May 2008 15:54:35 +0000

I would like the ability to have more than one application to be a focus (when a group of prgrams may be working together). Also the current mount of CPU usage next to the list of active apps.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:56:59 +0000

Allow a program to be focused on and have a ‘temporary’ defocus for single programs- IE, you switch to that program and use it as needed, but as soon as you switch back to your ‘focused’ program, it refreezes to keep your program fully focused.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 28 May 2008 14:49:56 +0000

I would like to see a hot-key switching system that freezes all windows but the current one, rather than freezing and unfreezing.

By: Cameron Williams

Cameron Williams — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:44:06 +0000

I’d like the ability to freeze apps when they reach a certain threshold. Sometimes I’m watching a movie and browsing on Safari, and a flash site will eat up my CPU cycles. To prevent the movie from skipping, I’d like to freeze Safari if it jumps past a certain number.

By: Corey

Corey — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:18:35 +0000

I think it would be useful to mark particular apps as always being high priority or always being low priority. So for instance, whenever I run MATLAB, it gets preference for processor cycles over other apps. Accordingly, I can set it so that Mail.app I can set it as low priority and will always yield processor cycles to other programs.

By: t5tr

t5tr — Mon, 26 May 2008 05:14:24 +0000

We are really talking about a program being used to get control over the Mac performance, and I give you not one but three ideas:

I really would like to see an option to empty all the disk space that is used for swap or virtual memory. I’ve noted that after I’d run several apps, not only the Mac performance fades but also the free disk space reduces, so I do a logoff/login in order to refrain from this side-effect – sometimes just a restart seems to solve it :~(.

Other than that, I also would like to quickly see what is the version of all the running apps at one time, so I could compare 2 or more Macs in a shot.

And third, how about an option to see the version of an app that is neither running nor focused on the finder, just resting on the dock? I keep on the dock my essential apps, and while browsing the net often I’ve to check what version is already installed.

Thanks for the time Bokeh is conquering for us.
Thanks for your time.

By: stephen

stephen — Sat, 24 May 2008 10:57:59 +0000

how about the option to focus on more than on application at the same time. i really like the suggestion by nick c concerning profiles.

By: dai1976

dai1976 — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:14:35 +0000

It is convenient that ON/OFF of the focus of the selected application changes when the shortcut key is pushed

By: macaroni

macaroni — Sat, 24 May 2008 02:06:20 +0000

How about the following functions?
The frieze exclusion application is registered beforehand.
Even if focus is given to the application, the registered application is not freezed. This is useful to work with Photoshop while listening to music with iTunes.

By: Perfect Star

Perfect Star — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:51:50 +0000

It is a wonderful application. If the desire is said, I want the option that CPU utilization of each application can be displayed next to the application list.

By: monochrome effect

monochrome effect — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:45:16 +0000

Can the window of the application to make it freeze made translucent or brightness be lowered? I think that it becomes easy to recognize the freezed application if it is possible.

By: Rajarshi Nigam

Rajarshi Nigam — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:57:18 +0000

More control over the blurring of the background, or even blacking it out a certain color a la Think http://freeverse.com/apps/app/?id=7013

By: Henry Yue

Henry Yue — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:22:19 +0000

It would be nice to have it integrated with Spaces so that the focus is on each Space be it one app or two or more related apps.

By: jane birkin

jane birkin — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:38:56 +0000

Can it not be freezed by registering the application that wants to operate by the background?

By: sunnyday

sunnyday — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:22:12 +0000

It is best when there is an option not to release focus when non-active area is clicked.

By: puppet master

puppet master — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:10:27 +0000

It is a wonderful application. so, please do localize to a lot of languages.

By: puppy love

puppy love — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:01:33 +0000

I think it is convenient when the application can be selected, and “Focus is given and start” do with the context menu.

By: mmac

mmac — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:57:16 +0000

The application list under the start is called with the shortcut key.
I think that convenience improves if focus is given there.

By: dt

dt — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:24:44 +0000

When consider the case that doesn’t have the GPU power, I think it’s good when the effect such as painting out with the shadeing off black can be selected.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:13:16 +0000

addition to my previous post:

That would include the previous comments by adam and roderick, itunes would need some processing power to play anyways.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:10:33 +0000

One thing i’d like to do when i need to focus is play instrumental music. I’d like it if iTunes is switched to a specific playlist.

By: daisuke

daisuke — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:10:09 +0000

Even the current state is very attractive. However, I think that it becomes more convenient if focus is given to two or more applications at the same time.

By: z3

z3 — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:56:44 +0000

The effect that a part not active becomes senile is very cool.
Cannot focus be given by an arbitrary shortcut key?

By: sorethroat

sorethroat — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:51:07 +0000

It liked it very much in a wonderful concept.
The mouse operation where it goes to the dock seems to remain in the focus release. I think it is better when whether the investigation outside focus is invalidated or it maintains it can be set.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:25:04 +0000

I would love to see the possibility to focus on command-line apps like VisualHub’s ffmpeg implementation.

AFAIK it’s only possible to focus on apps which also have a dock icon.

Greetings

By: perfume

perfume — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:04:36 +0000

I think it is more convenient when the function to give focus automatically when one application is used longer than the set fixed time is provided.
anyway it is wonderful application.

By: dai

dai — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:53:13 +0000

When Forcas is given to the application, the function that the background grows dim is my favorite.
In addition, if the function that the effect such as making the growing dim condition and the color sepia can be adjusted is added, it is the highest.

By: Dean W.

Dean W. — Fri, 23 May 2008 12:10:31 +0000

@Nick C & the developer re: the group thing (photo edit mode)… Any way to tie it to Spaces? So the active apps in a designated space get the processor preference and the others are shut off? I guess that’s tricky, as the same app can be active in multiple spaces. Do you guys use Spaces in a professional setting?