You can easily keep tabs on what's running on your Mac and get things running smoothly by using Apple's Activity Monitor. Here's how to get started. Most applications running on UNIX-based systems are ...

If your Mac has been sluggish lately, it can be hard to figure out the cause. Here are 13 potential reasons and fixes to improve your Mac's speed.

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 ...

A CPU is at the heart of all the various processes running on your Mac. As such, the higher the number of tasks and instructions running simultaneously on your Mac, the higher its CPU usage. Although ...

When an app stops working in Windows, the Control-Alt-Delete command—well, really, Control-Shift-Esc these days—can help you quickly shut down the offending program. As a Mac user who had to adjust to ...