The Activity Monitor app can be used to troubleshoot your Mac, as well as evaluate how well your Mac is performing overall or with specific running processes (apps). In Using Activity Monitor Part 2, we’ll take a look at using this utility to explore your Mac's energy use, disk performance, and network performance.
Activity Monitor is one of my favorite apps, although when my Mac is running as it should, I hardly ever use it. But when there’s a need to troubleshoot problems, check performance, or see if an upgrade, such as additional RAM or...
Did you know that you can control access to the camera on your Mac, even turning it completely off if you wish? You can, and it’s easy. Some apps and websites can use your camera to take photos or capture...
The free Stats app allows you to keep a constant eye on your Mac's performance via colorful menu bar gauges and a robust app design.
I’ve recently started using multiple monitors. Again.And I’ve completely forgotten how to move the dock from one monitor to another. Again.So now I am aggravated with myself and highly embarrassed. Again.Not to mention that I’m going to have to look...
Macs have come a long, long way since the first model appeared back in 1984. While the first Mac came with a relatively minuscule 128K (kilobytes) of RAM, the newest crop of Macs comes with a minimum of 4GB of memory...
Readers of the Rocket Yard are a pretty special group and include a number of those folks that we call "system administrators." You know the type – they're the people who keep your website running 24/7 and make sure that the...
Learn how to monitor your Mac's memory with Activity Monitor. Here are some tips so you will know when you need more RAM.
Wondering how many GPU cores you really need in an M-Series Mac? Our Mac expert digs into how and when GPU cores are put to use on Apple silicon.
