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It became the first Connectix Windows product 14 months later, with RAM Doubler for Windows 3.1 being the next. Originally the sole design of Jon Garber, he wanted to call it the "Mac-camera", but was vetoed by marketing, who saw the possibility of it one day becoming a cross-platform product.

Surf Express: A local proxy server designed to accelerate the web browsing experience by caching and auto-refreshing frequently visited web sites.

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It was made obsolete as 68K applications became less common and OS code improved, though its better Finder copy utility would be spun off into its own OS 9 compatible product called CopyAgent.

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Speed Doubler: Software that combines an enhanced disk cache called Speed Access, better Finder copy utility called Speed Copy, and a dynamically recompiling 68K-to-PowerPC emulator called Speed Emulator, which is faster than both the interpretive emulator that shipped in the original PowerPCs and the dynamically recompiling emulator that Apple shipped in later machines.

RAM Doubler was something of a case study for porting Macintosh products to the PowerPC processor, as CEO Roy McDonald presented a paper detailing the company's porting efforts at the Sumeria Technology and Issues Conference on June 30, 1994. There is also a RAM Doubler for Windows 3.1 which uses compression to increase system resources, allowing more applications to run.

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A top selling Mac utility for many years which eventually was made obsolete as Apple improved their own virtual memory. RAM Doubler: The first product to combine compression with virtual memory.Connectix Powerbook Utilities (CPU): A collection of utilities designed to simplify common tasks for laptop users.A version of the CDU software received an Energy Star Compliant Controlling Device status from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the basis of the software's power management functionality. Connectix Desktop Utilities (CDU): A collection of utilities for desktop systems, including utilities for power management (screen dimming and automatic power down), synchronizing files when multiple disks are used, and custom desktop background images.

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MAXIMA: A RAM disk utility, better than the one that later came with Mac OS as it saved its contents before and after reboots, while also allowing booting from the RAM disk.

It can have one application open at a time. This makes all of the physical RAM addressable by System 6.

Optima: Makes System 6 32-bit clean and puts a Macintosh IIsi into 32-bit mode.

Later bought by Apple and distributed for free, at least in part to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by customers who demanded to know why their 32-bit 68020 microprocessors could not access more than 8 megabytes of RAM.

MODE32: Software which allows 32-bit memory management on " 32-bit dirty" Macintosh systems.

Again, Apple would make a hierarchal Apple menu standard in System 7, by buying one of the many shareware versions of the same concept.

SuperMenu: The first commercial hierarchical Apple menu, developed by Fred Hollander of Utilitron, Inc.

Apple would later build a similar functionality into System 7.

This INIT for Macintosh solved the "Application Not Found" problem by launching a substitute application for the one that created the file the user was trying to open. HandOff II: The file launcher developed by Fred Hollander of Utilitron, Inc.

Virtual also runs on a motley assortment of accelerator cards for the original Mac, Mac Plus, and Mac SE, which were not supported by Apple.

Virtual: Its original flagship product, which introduced virtual memory to the Macintosh operating system, Mac OS, years before Apple's implementation in System 7.

McDonald was still Chief Executive Officer and president when Connectix finally closed in August 2003. It was formed in October 1988 by Jon Garber dominant board members and co-founders were Garber, Bonnie Fought (the two were later married), and close friend Roy McDonald. Connectix Corporation was a software and hardware company, noted for having released innovative products that were either made obsolete as Apple Computer incorporated the ideas into system software, or were sold to other companies once they became popular.