Used to be my stay-open applets would put a drag on processing. But I have seven running right now and there is very little processor drag on my iMac G5--which, I think I have mentioned, is the best computer I ever owned. I have applets that send my iTunes data to the "Doug's Listening To..." thingy in the above left corner of the site; doing likewise with my iChat status message; pruning my remote MySQL database for referrer spammers (bastitches!); checking my Mail mailboxes for outdated crap from CNET News and the like and deleting. They can do some good cookin', so let 'em loose!
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