Using the Home app from your Mac means you don't have to look for your iPhone or tablet if you're at the desk and want to turn the lights off in a room that you're not using. Or if you want to lower the temperature in the house a bit, and your iOS device isn't right next to you, but you're at the computer, just do it from there. Download CleanMyMac X, an app for Mac maintenance. Open it and click on the Uninstaller. Select the app you need to reset from the list. Click on the small arrow next to the application icon; Click Applications Reset. If the beach ball keeps rolling when you use the app again, reinstall it completely by pressing Uninstall instead or Reset. Type 'kill ###'. Replace the '###' with the number from the PID Column you just located. For example: If you were trying to quit iTunes, and found iTunes to have PID number 3703, you would type 'kill 3703'. If the program does not respond to the “kill” command, type “sudo kill.
Even though a lot of argument suggests the killer app has seen its day, some apps are still revolutionary enough to swing some folks’ buying decisions. They’re not going to start a stampede to the Mac platform, but for some people and their needs, some of these apps are their own killer apps.
Here are five apps I think could influence people to buy a Mac:
Parallels Desktop version 3
Goes without saying, really. And this is certainly the one with the best claim to being a killer app. Parallels Desktop was always a significant app in the Mac-Windows marketplace (you regularly hear people say it justified them buying a Mac), but version 3 has seen the maturation of Parallels Desktop.
Goes without saying, really. And this is certainly the one with the best claim to being a killer app. Parallels Desktop was always a significant app in the Mac-Windows marketplace (you regularly hear people say it justified them buying a Mac), but version 3 has seen the maturation of Parallels Desktop.
Parallels Desktop now boasts features that make using Windows programs on the Mac almost a pleasure, and definitely much easier. Number one among those features is Coherence, which hides the Windows desktop and task bar so Windows programs are just other windows floating on your desktop. Another mighty cool feature is SmartSelect, which lets you assign which operating system should open specified file types.
Parallels Desktop has done more to negate the argument for a Windows PC than even Boot Camp.
MemoryMiner
Welcome to the future. When I first saw this app I got so excited I called it the greatest app I’d ever seen in 25 years of using computers. MemoryMiner manages your photos based on people, places, and time. This might sound like nothing more than using keywords in iPhoto; MemoryMiner, though, creates an entry for each person you specify plus it automatically uses the people in your address book. These entries have “life periods” (baby, toddler, teenagers, etc.) to which you can also assign photos, places, and times.
Welcome to the future. When I first saw this app I got so excited I called it the greatest app I’d ever seen in 25 years of using computers. MemoryMiner manages your photos based on people, places, and time. This might sound like nothing more than using keywords in iPhoto; MemoryMiner, though, creates an entry for each person you specify plus it automatically uses the people in your address book. These entries have “life periods” (baby, toddler, teenagers, etc.) to which you can also assign photos, places, and times.
The places are mapped using Google maps. Therefore you can link all your photos that are specific to a country, city, or even an address. Hence, you can do searches that show, for example, photos of you when you lived at a certain address.
Coming from a background in IT that included records management, I am very excited by MemoryMiner because all data we deal with in life can be linked to either a person or a place. From there we can filter it with other keywords, but the starting point is always a person or place.
MemoryMiner should revolutionize how we manage files. Currently it works with photos, but if the paradigm is extended to documents…wow! Think about it. You could do a search to show all files created by or about Bob when he lived in Boston that referred to Apple Macs. So you’d get back photos, emails, letters, invoices, spreadsheets, etc. etc.—and all presented visually, not tabular lists. You can’t easily do that with Spotlight, and you certainly can’t do that with current filing systems which store those files in many different locations.
MemoryMiner introduces the layman to a records management type approach to information management. As its focus is photos, it may not be the app to bring us the revolution, but it sure should excite someone out there enough to revolutionize our file systems with this type of functionality.
Numbers
Spreadsheets always seem to be killer apps: VisiCalc, Lotus 123, Excel, and now Numbers. Numbers certainly has its shortcomings, but it is version 1. Of the five apps here, Numbers has the potential to cause the biggest revolution if other developers adopt its approach of independent floating tables within sheets. And they’d be mad not to, as the reactions I’ve seen to it have all centered around the exclamation “Where has this been all my life!”
Spreadsheets always seem to be killer apps: VisiCalc, Lotus 123, Excel, and now Numbers. Numbers certainly has its shortcomings, but it is version 1. Of the five apps here, Numbers has the potential to cause the biggest revolution if other developers adopt its approach of independent floating tables within sheets. And they’d be mad not to, as the reactions I’ve seen to it have all centered around the exclamation “Where has this been all my life!”
And with that sort of reaction, it should sell a few Macs.
iMovie ‘08
Yes, the new one. Sure it’s got to add back some missing features, but Apple has already begun that process. Like Numbers, it has also come up with a whole new paradigm. It has made the creation of movies absurdly easy. Once it adds those features sought by folks wanting to make longer pieces, not just YouTube clips, features such as chapter markers and themes, it will have many amateur videographers queueing up to burn Windows Movie Maker and make the switch to Mac.
Yes, the new one. Sure it’s got to add back some missing features, but Apple has already begun that process. Like Numbers, it has also come up with a whole new paradigm. It has made the creation of movies absurdly easy. Once it adds those features sought by folks wanting to make longer pieces, not just YouTube clips, features such as chapter markers and themes, it will have many amateur videographers queueing up to burn Windows Movie Maker and make the switch to Mac.
Bento
Finally someone has given databases the 21st century makeover. Not surprisingly, it is Apple (under the guise of Filemaker). Although not as revolutionary as Numbers or iMovie, Bento makes database creation and management more user-friendly. However, more importantly, it is visually friendly and easy on the eye. Database development applications seemed to have been the last bastion of poor visual design. Despite Filemaker’s regard as being easy to use, its interface had become very dated and out of place in the Mac world.
Finally someone has given databases the 21st century makeover. Not surprisingly, it is Apple (under the guise of Filemaker). Although not as revolutionary as Numbers or iMovie, Bento makes database creation and management more user-friendly. However, more importantly, it is visually friendly and easy on the eye. Database development applications seemed to have been the last bastion of poor visual design. Despite Filemaker’s regard as being easy to use, its interface had become very dated and out of place in the Mac world.
As the iWork and iLife suites have shaken up the world of each of their applications, so too will Bento force its competitors to revamp their offerings and bring them into the 21st century. Although, don’t expect MS Access to lead the pack.
These were five apps that caught my attention in 2007 and I highly recommended you at least take a look at them. In 2008, I expect them to make even bigger waves, including seeing other developers copying their features.
These were five apps that caught my attention in 2007 and I highly recommended you at least take a look at them. In 2008, I expect them to make even bigger waves, including seeing other developers copying their features.
Note: Just discovered MacUpdate has extended its December 2007 bundled software special for another week, which includes MemoryMiner and nine other very good apps worth nearly $646 all for under $50.
All-mighty Mac system monitor
Control CPU, memory, and whatnot with iStat Menus app.
When your Mac slows down or starts behaving erratically, chances are it's because an application that's running, perhaps in the background, is misbehaving. And if it's not an application that's causing the problem, it will almost certainly be a process associated with macOS or an ancillary service.
Solving this problem is usually as simple as killing the process, but in order to do that you need to identify which one.Here's a comprehensive guide on how to view and kill processes on your Mac.
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How to show which processes consume a lot of memory
The easiest way to view all active processes running on your Mac is to launch Activity Monitor from your Applications folder. In the default CPU tab, you can see how much processing power every process takes, ranked by the most consuming. And if you switch to the Memory tab, you will see the same list ranked by the amount of used up RAM.
For more immediate and elaborate information on how your computer resources are consumed, use iStat Menus, which handily lives in your menu bar and, in its MEM table, shows you applications and processes that are consuming more than their fair share of RAM in real time.
How to kill process using Activity Monitor
- Launch Activity Monitor.
The easiest way to launch Activity Monitor is to press Command and spacebar to call up Spotlight, then start typing Activity Monitor. When it appears in Spotlight, hit Return to launch it. Alternatively, go to Utilities in the Applications folder and double-click on its icon. Or open Activity Monitor in one click through iStat Menus app. - View and filter tasks.
You'll notice there are five tabs across the top of the Activity Monitor window: CPU, Energy, Memory, Disk, and Network. Clicking on any of those tabs organizes processes according to the percentage of the resource they are using. So, clicking on CPU lists tasks in the order of how much CPU capacity they're using. By default, processes are ordered starting with the one that's consuming the most of the resource at the top, so you can quickly see where problems are occurring or likely to occur. To flip the order, so that processes consuming the least of the resource are at the top, click the arrow next to Memory or CPU above the list of processes. - Kill problematic processes.
When you identify a process that's causing a problem, either because it's hogging lots of CPU cycles or memory, or because it's highlighted in the Activity Monitor as having crashed, you need to kill it. To do that, click on the process first and then on the X in the Activity Monitor toolbar. The process will quit and free up the resources it was taking up. If it's a critical process, it will restart. If it's an application, it will remain shut down.
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https://yellowwill573.weebly.com/impact-of-deleting-unsupported-apps-on-mac.html. Get an advanced system monitor for macOS – an improved alternative to the default program.
How to shut down processes using Terminal
- Launch Terminal. Press Command and spacebar to pull up Spotlight then start typing Terminal. When the Terminal app appears in Spotlight, tap Return to launch it. Alternatively, navigate to the Utilities folder in Applications and double-click Terminal.
- View processes. When Terminal has launched, type 'top' into the Terminal window. You'll see a list of currently running processes. At the top of the list is an overview of the processes that are running and the resources they're consuming.
- Kill an unwanted process. When you identify a process that's causing a problem or consuming too many resources, take note of the number in the PID column next to the name of the process. To kill the process, type 'kill -9' followed by the PID number. Press Enter. The problem process will now quit.
How to prevent problematic processes
You can pretty much avoid issues altogether by being a little bit proactive in hunting down the common culprits. Here, iStat Menus will help you identify which applications or processes are consuming finite resources, such as CPU and RAM.
Then, you can use CleanMyMac maintenance routines that, when run regularly, will keep you Mac running smoothly. Here's how to do that: Iphone ringtone mac app.
- Launch Setapp and search for CleanMyMac.
- Find the maintenance scripts. Under the Speed section in the left sidebar, click on Maintenance. You will see a list of tasks that CleanMyMac would suggest you to perform to optimize your Mac. You should try to run them all, but the one especially important for us is under Run Maintenance Scripts.
- Run the maintenance scripts. Click on the checkbox next to Run Maintenance Scripts and then click Run. Alternatively, choose another specific maintenance script such as Speed Up Mail or Reindex Spotlight and click Run. When it's finished, click Select Tasks to return to the list of maintenance tasks.
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Run other tasks, as necessary. If you're having problems with Mail, repeat step 3, but this time click the checkbox next to Speed Up Mail. Likewise, if Spotlight is running slowly, run the Reindex Spotlight task.
How to kill a background process
To kill a background process, use Activity Monitor. While the steps are the same as described in the 'How to kill a running process using Activity Monitor' section above, the key difference is that background processes often have obscure names that don't clearly describe what they do.
Be careful when killing a background process and, if not sure, leave it alone or search online for its exact role in your system. Otherwise, you might risk causes problems for your macOS. Generally, background processes don't tend to consume significant RAM or CPU cycles, so if you spot one that does, it has probably got into trouble. Kill it using the X in the Activity Monitor toolbar.
How to easily remove startup items
One common cause of Macs running slowly or having problems is items that launch automatically at startup. These could be helper apps for something like iTunes or just complete apps in their own right. They are also frequently apps you once used but no longer need.
To review the apps and helpers that startup when you log in
- Launch System Preferences from the Apple menu and click on the Users & Groups pane.
- Click the padlock and type in your password.
- Then select your username in the left panel and click the Login Items tab.
- Look through all the login items that correspond to apps you no longer use and then click the minus button. The app will no longer start up automatically when you log in.
How to Force Quit an application that's not responding
If you see the dreaded spinning beachball, or an app just won't do anything, you should force quit it.
https://yellowwill573.weebly.com/blog/wd-apps-setup-mac. There are several ways to force quit an unresponsive application:
- Press Command-Alt-Esc and click on the application in the window that opens. Press Force Quit
- Control-click or right-click on the application's icon in the Dock and choose Force Quit
- Launch Activity Monitor, locate the application and press the 'x' in the toolbar
- Locate the process in Activity monitor, look for the entry in the PID column and launch Terminal. Type 'kill -9' followed by the PID number. Press Enter
Fix crashing apps with Spindump
While Force Quit will fix the problem, it’s a temporary solution. If you’re determined to identify the source of crashing apps and prevent them from happening, use Spindump on Mac. It’s a hang reporting tool that alerts you about the crash and helps share the details with the app developer.
Whenever the app crashes, it will trigger Spindump and send the information to Apple or the app developer. Not only does it help you understand what just happened, but it also helps the developer track the conditions of app misbehavior — and fix it accordingly. A win-win.
How to create a Spindump file on Mac
- Launch Activity Monitor via Applications > Utilities
- Pick the app for which you want to create a Spindump file, then click on the Settings icon
- Select Spindump or Run Spindump
- Wait a few seconds for the file to generate
- Click Save.
Reset a problematic app
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There's one more thing you can try if an app keeps running slowly or crashing – reset it. Thanks to CleanMyMac, resetting an app is easy. Here's what you need to do:
- Locate the uninstaller. In the left hand sidebar of CleanMyMac, click on Uninstaller under Applications.
- Find the app that's causing a problem. Scroll through the list of apps until you find the one that's been crashing or running slowly. Click on it to highlight.
- Reset the app. With the app highlighted, you'll see all the files associated with it in the right-hand window. Click Application Reset at the top of the window and all the files, except the main application file, will be selected.
- Click Uninstall. All the selected files will be trashed, effectively resetting the application to its default state. When you launch it the next time, it will behave as if it has just been installed — so you'll need to recreate any custom settings or preferences.
If resetting the app doesn't work, the final resort should be to uninstall the app completely and reinstall it. To do that, click Complete Uninstallation in the same menu instead of Application Reset.
As you can see there are lots of different ways and apps that help you view and kill processes in macOS. iStat Menus is a great way to passively monitor which processes are causing problems, so you can launch Activity Monitor and quit them. And running CleanMyMac's maintenance scripts regularly prevents problems occurring in the first place. Best of all, all these apps are available to try for free on Setapp, along with over 200 high-quality macOS apps. So check your Mac for problematic processes now and see what you find.
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