Terminal emulator

How to: See what apps are running via Terminal

April 30, 2012 Dan Uff

Ever wish you could see what apps are taking up memory or if you’ve quit an app and its REALLY gone? Well, if you use the Terminal (Finder > Applications > Utilities > Terminal) you can find that out and more. Just go into Terminal, and at the prompt, type: top Then you’ll see a […]

How to: Kill a hanging application (Mac OS X, all versions)

November 30, 2011 Dan Uff

Applications run fine most of the time. But sometimes (for what ever reason) an application gets stuck to a point where a user cannot exit out of it the normal way (Command+Q). Since Mac OS X is Linux based, a user has access to an area called the Terminal. This lets a user access the […]