Design Practice: HOW TO// increase the memory of a Mac Application

The idea of this project is so find Primary and Secondary reference but what makes this project different is we can't USE IMAGERY.

SECONDARY

Now with the project the first thing I did was type 'How to Increase the memory of a mac application' in to Google search and quite obviously the first thing that came up was the Apple Website, I scrolled down and came across this link- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61528

Application Memory
'...you can increase the available memory allocated to a Classic application by selecting the application in the Mac OS X Finder and choosing Get Info (10.2) or Show Info (10.0 to 10.1.5) from the File menu. This will display an info window that has a disclosure triangle labeled Memory. Click on the disclosure triangle to reveal and modify the memory settings for the application. Some applications report that they require more memory when opened in Classic, than when they are used with Mac OS 9. Increasing the memory settings for the application as described here will allow those applications to be open in Classic. You can view the memory usage for open Classic applications with Classic System Preferences....'

Classic System Preferences
'...classic System Preferences provides a tab labeled Memory/Versions and when selected displays information about the Classic environment similar to what is displayed by Mac OS 9 when you choose About this Macintosh from the Apple menu. A scrolling list of active Classic applications and their memory usage is displayed, and a checkbox controls whether background only applications will appear in this list. This tab also displays information about the installed versions of the Classic environment....'
Temporary Memory
'...in Mac OS 9, application memory uses the same memory area as temporary memory. Because some applications use a large part of temporary memory, Classic does not use all of its 1024 MB of virtual memory as temporary memory. Instead, when you start Classic, it creates a temporary memory area. The maximum size of temporary memory is currently limited to somewhat less than 128 MB, or even less on computers with less than 128 MB of physical memory (RAM)....'

Already this pretty much answers my question. What I could now is get first hand research which happens to be primary research. This quote above is from the mac website is secondary research.

Heres some really good information .

'...If you work with large documents, you may see a message complaining about insufficient memory (RAM). A document might not even open, or a program might run very slowly. You can assign more RAM to the application to see if that helps....

1)Single-click the icon for the application to which you want to allocate more memory. Be sure to exit the application first.

- 2)From the File menu choose Get Info, or press the keys Command-I.
- 3)In OS 8.5 and later versions, select Memory from the Show menu in the box that appears.
- 4)Type a new value into the Preferred Size box, perhaps 1.5 or 2 times the suggested size shown. You can decrease the memory in the same way.

http://www.ehow.com/how_5726_increase-memory-macintosh.html - I think in CONCLUSION the best way to do it is to go on the mac store and update you apps like that. Or go to the mac store and buy programs like Mac OS-Snow Leopard