As Joey explains, Activity Monitor consumes a lot of resources and yields little usable data. Here are some third-party alternatives. I get to work with a lot of customers, so I get to see a lot of ...

OS X comes with a built-in application called Activity Monitor, which gives you a general overview of what your MacBook is doing. Running the Activity Monitor app is useful if you want to see how hard ...

Physical activity monitors, such as fitness apps and wearable activity trackers, that provide direct feedback to users do help to boost activity levels in adults, finds a summary of the evidence, ...

No matter what you use your Mac for, there may come a time when Command + Q just doesn't cut it. For closing out those persistently frozen apps that just won't go away, there are a couple of ways to ...

This study was presented in conjunction with the 2016 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), a gathering of over 30,000 oncology professionals in Chicago. In a small pilot ...

In the report accompanying this commentary, Beg et al 1 describe the promise of wearable physical activity monitors, with a reflection on historical usage, contemporary challenges, and opportunities ...

Here’s an amazingly simple Tuesday tip concerning Activity Monitor (in the Applications -> Utilities folder). As you may know, you can use Activity Monitor to quit a stuck application, examine CPU ...

On Windows PCs, the Task Manager is typically used as a last resort to kill an app or process when it has become unresponsive. Users on Mac can sometimes face similar issues, and in such cases will ...

With UNIX having many tasks running simultaneously, through the years developers have incorporated several command-line tools that allow for live process management ...

The Activity Monitor in macOS may not be as accurate with the data it provides to Apple Silicon users, with a report claiming the tool cannot properly tell the difference between performance and ...

Sometimes, a single misbehaving app can slow your Mac to a crawl. If you’re not sure what’s slowing your Mac down, turn to Activity Monitor—a free app built into Lion—to identify (and terminate) the ...