Working with multiple applications open

I was wondering if having multiple applications open has a negative effect on the speed of my RAM. Someone told me that it's actually a good thing to have more than one open at a time in OS X. Could that be true?
I'm interested because I only have 256 MB and I use Photoshop CS (a real memory hog) a lot for manipulating big images. I'm also online pretty much all the time.
Thank you.
Allan

Yeah, I think I see those beach balls in my sleep! Thanks Littleshoulders for the link. It's really helpful. I think I'll buy that ebook when I can. The other link on my previous post that led somewhere on this site helped a lot, too. The more I learn, the better.
So I guess that's a fallacy that it's good to have many apps open at a time, especially Photoshop and the huge images I work with. You know, I'm sure I read that in a book about using OS X. I don't see how there would be a benefit to have multiple apps open.
I think RAM will be my next purchase, followed, of course, by a newer, more powerful Mac.

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brebs wrote:It's put the comments on multiple lines - fix that.
Woops, I guess my paste messed up, new .asoundrc: http://pastie.org/3706033
I can run both at the same time, however I cannot hear any audio. Do I somehow have to change the default device, if so how can I do that?
Edit:
Restarted system now I get:
speaker-test 1.0.25
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Period size range from 1024 to 1024
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Periods = 4
was set period_size = 1024
was set buffer_size = 8192
0 - Front Left
Segmentation fault
(That's with both commands)
EDIT 2:
Interesting, apparently 2 audio streams are working, however the console thing still doesn't work..?
EDIT 3:
Didn't last long, now flash crashes and html 5 doesn't work -.-
EDIT 4:
Flash only works when other audio is active, however it has constant popping sound. I went through the system logs to get the errors of when flash crashes, it's audio crashing it, here's the error:
Apr 1 02:04:15 localhost kernel: [ 7057.499787] AudioThread[6227]: segfault at 7f2e2f7a8008 ip 00007f2e413a2786 sp 00007f2e33614ae8 error 7 in libasound.so.2.0.0[7f2e4131e000+eb000]
Last edited by B3NW (2012-04-01 01:11:04)

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Revision: 5019
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2009-02-19 13:17:21 -0800 (Thu, 19 Feb 2009)
Log Message:
ASDoc updates to indicate that some Halo containers do not work with the Spark equiv (ControlBar does not work with Spark Panel/AppControlBar does not work with Spark Application), and indicate that Canvas, Box, Tile, Panel have Spark equivs
QE Notes: None
Doc Notes: None
Bugs: -
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flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/containers/Accordion.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/containers/ApplicationControlBar.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/containers/Box.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/containers/Canvas.as
flex/sdk/trunk/frameworks/projects/framework/src/mx/containers/ControlBar.as
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