{"id":1424,"date":"2013-05-25T05:01:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T19:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2015-04-21T13:18:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T03:18:45","slug":"mac-os-x-activity-monitor-and-system-preferences-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/mac-os-x-activity-monitor-and-system-preferences-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac OS X Activity Monitor and System Preferences Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mac OS X Activity Monitor and System Preferences Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Here is a tutorial that introduces you to some aspects of the Activity Monitor and System Preferences in Mac OS X, which are tools to respectively monitor and tailor Mac OS X settings and arrangements for personal use.<\/p>\n

Activity Monitor is a task manager, a utility for performing different tasks to a computer processes, in the OS X operating system.[1][2] Some of its functions include:<\/p>\n

Quitting or “killing” a computer process
\n Viewing the computer’s CPU load
\n Checking the amount of random access memory in use or swapped out
\n Checking the amount of hard disk read-ins and write-outs
\n Checking the capacity of storage devices
\n Monitoring the computer’s network usage
\n Inspecting running computer processes
\n Viewing a process identifier number
\n Viewing information about a particular process<\/p>\n

Prior to Mac OS X v10.3, the Activity Monitor was named the Process Viewer.[3]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Learn these two parts of Mac OS X functionality and you will get much more satisfaction out of your desktop Mac OS X usage.<\/p>\n

Link to Mac OS X Activity Monitor information … from Wikipedia from which quote above comes<\/a>.
\nLink to Mac OS X Activity Monitor support … from Apple<\/a> (the company of Mac OS X and so the company of Activity Monitor).<\/p>\n

Let’s see some simple Activity Monitor and System Preferences<\/a> in action, in Mac OS X …<\/p>\n

System Preferences is an application included with the Mac OS X operating system that allows users to modify various system settings which are divided into separate preference panes. The System Preferences application was introduced in the first version of Mac OS X to replace the control panel that was included in previous versions of the Mac operating system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Link to Mac OS X System Preferences information … from Wikipedia from which quote above comes<\/a>.
\nLink to Mac OS X System Preferences support … from Apple<\/a> (the company of Mac OS X and so the company of System Preferences).<\/p>\n

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