How to Troubleshoot Your Mac With Activity Monitor

Did You Know? Teddy Roosevelt named the White House as such in 1901; prior to Roosevelt, the president’s residence was officially referred to as the Executive Mansion. Geek Trivia Until 2007 NASA Space Shuttles Couldn’t Do What? Host More Than 2 Astronauts → Stay In Orbit Over New Year's → Land Without Assistance → Survive Multiple Reentries → Advertisement Download iPad at Work for Dummies (Free eBook Valued at $16.99!) iPad at Work For Dummies provides essential and in-depth coverage for a variety of productivity-related tasks made possible on the iPad, from basics such as setting up and starting out with an iPad to tips on the best practices for enterprise-level word processing, spreadsheet creation, presenting, task management, project management, graphic design, and communication. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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Check Out the How-To Geek CES 2016 Photo Blog Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Convention Over Configuration Convention Over Configuration (a.k.a Coding By Convention) is an approach to software development that favors the use of typical (standard) programming conventions over configurations that have been uniquely defined by programmers (i.e. non-standard or custom choices). Convention Over Configuration helps to make software creation quicker, simpler, and maintain base software requirements with only a minimal (if any) loss of flexibility. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. FCC chairman: You'll soon have more room to stream TV over wireless networks The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to auction off a chunk of spectrum that would provide more room for media streaming over wireless networks. 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[Petapixel] How to Add Custom Characters to the Apple Watch’s Monogram You can personalize your Apple Watch with different watch faces and “complications”, but if you really want to add a personal touch, the “Color” watch face has a cool Monogram complication, which allows you to display up to four characters on the watch face. The Monogram complication is more customizable than people realize, though. Read This Article → How to Troubleshoot Your Mac With Activity Monitor Not many casual users know about OS X’s Activity Monitor, and fewer still understand how it works and what it can really do. Here’s how to use Activity Monitor to manage your Mac’s memory, fix slow applications, and troubleshoot various other issues. Read This Article → How to Disable the Shake to Undo Feature in iOS 9 iOS allows you to shake your phone to undo typing you just did in apps such as Messages, Mail, Calendar, Notes, or Contacts. It’s a handy feature, but it can also be annoying. If you tend to accidentally activate the "Shake to Undo" feature during your daily activities, you can now easily disable this feature in iOS 9. Read This Article → Head Mounted Displays: What’s the Difference between Augmented and Virtual Reality? As digital technology continues to seep into every aspect of our analog lives, it seems it was only a matter of time before it started to replace our plain old visual experiences with something a little more tantalizing. Read This Article → What Are Autonomous Cars, and When Will I Have One in My Driveway? Over the past few years, automakers and tech giants have been dumping billions of dollars into making the first true accident-free self-driving car. It’s been a dream for nearly as long as cars have existed: getting in your car, cranking up the tunes, and kicking up your feet as a self-correcting, self-driving computer swivels and swerves effortlessly through traffic better than any human ever could. but how close is that dream to a reality? Read This Article → Check Out the How-To Geek CES 2016 Photo Blog Most of the How-To Geek team is at CES 2016, and we’re doing a group photo “live blog” like we did last year, which just means that we’ll be posting pictures of everything we’re looking at in Vegas, as we’re looking at it (assuming we have a decent Internet connection). Read This Article → Advertisement Download iPad at Work for Dummies (Free eBook Valued at $16.99!) iPad at Work For Dummies provides essential and in-depth coverage for a variety of productivity-related tasks made possible on the iPad, from basics such as setting up and starting out with an iPad to tips on the best practices for enterprise-level word processing, spreadsheet creation, presenting, task management, project management, graphic design, and communication. Click here to download