Activity Monitor is a little know gem of an app hidden in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder. It can look daunting when you first launch it but once you look past the information ...

Are you looking for a way to view app activity and resource management on your Mac? There's a special app for that: Activity Monitor. Here's how to control your MacOS apps with the Activity Monitor, ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the Activity Monitor app in macOS, you can force quit misbehaving apps, find out how much energy your Mac is using, and see which apps or processes are eating the most processor cycles. If you're ...

Apple's system process viewer gets an interface reorganization, and offers new views of the impact of applications and services running on your Mac. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

After installing OS X Snow Leopard, some people may notice Activity Monitor reporting a smaller amount of RAM than what is installed in the system. For instance, on my MacBook Pro with 4GB of ...