Sometimes your Mac may not run as smoothly or as quickly as you expect. And the culprit may be a single application. A lone app can bump into performance issues, slowing down not just itself but your ...

Do you like to keep an eye on what’s going on with the vitals of your Mac? You can use the Activity Monitor app to see detailed information on the processes your Mac is running and how they affect the ...

For those Mac users who love to push their hardware to its limits, the OS X Activity Monitor (found in Applications > Utilities) can be a handy tool. I often use it to find out if one process or ...

Windows only: Computer activity logger TimeSnapper takes screenshots of your computer desktop every few seconds as you work throughout the day. Then, you can play back your computer activity to ...

OS X’s Activity Monitor is an essential tool to help you keep your system in good shape. In this report we tell you what it is and some ways to use it. Activity Monitor lets you watch your Mac. It ...

In a recent post, I drew analogies between Apple's iOS and Google's Android, and Apple's Mac OS X and Microsoft's Windows. Although the conclusion of that prior writeup was generally favorable to ...