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Memory Usage Getter 2.0.1 is a small utility for Mac OS X that displays the memory use and allocation of applications, user processes, and system processes under Mac OS X. The software is provided as US$5 shareware.

Your Mac Life, an Internet-based Mac radio show, has announced their lineup for tonight’s broadcast (21:00 – 23:00 ET). Tonight’s show features Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda, Founder of the famous “News for Nerds” Web site, Slashdot; Eric Wittman, Macromedia’s Director of Product Management, who will talk about the company’s latest software for Mac OS X; and Peter Cohen of MacCentral will talk to Dallas Dickinson, Producer for Sony’s Station.com site

Stanford University recently released a Mac OS X version of Folding@Home, its distributed computing client similar to the popular SETI@home. The goal of the project is to help researchers better understand the complex process of protein folding by lending your computer’s spare processor cycles to the task of simulating folding. The group does not plan to release a Mac OS 8/9 version of its client software.

REAL Software has opened REALbasic Explorer, a new section of its Web site devoted to in-depth discussion of various aspects on its cross-platform programming environment. The first installation covers REALbasic windows, ranging from non-modal to floating.

Research firm TrendWatch found in a recent survey that 46 percent of visual effects firms surveyed selected Mac OS 9 or earlier as their primary, most essential operating platform, according to MacCentral. The survey also found that Apple’s Final Cut Pro was used most often by 17 perent of respondents, which ranked fourth in popularity behind Adobe After Effects (44 percent), Avid Media Composer (31 percent), and Digi Design’s Pro Tools (23 percent).