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[44] [45] Activity Monitor appeared in Mac OS X v10.3, when it subsumed the functionality of the programs Process Viewer (a task manager) and CPU Monitor found in the previous version of OS X. [46] [47] In OS X 10.9, Activity Monitor was significantly revamped and gained a fifth tab for "energy" (in addition to CPU, memory, disk, and network). [48]
Activity Monitor – default system monitor for hardware and software; After Dark – computer screensaver software; AppZapper – uninstaller (shareware) Automator – built-in, utility to automate repetitive tasks; Butler – free, launcher and utility to automate repetitive tasks; CandyBar – system customization software (commercial)
Instruments (formerly Xray) is an application performance analyzer and visualizer by Apple Inc., integrated in Xcode 3.0 and later versions of Xcode. It is built on top of the DTrace tracing framework from OpenSolaris, which was ported to Mac OS X v10.5 and which is available in all following versions of macOS.
The Mac App Store (also known as the App Store) is a digital distribution platform for macOS apps, often referred to as Mac apps, [1] created and maintained by Apple. The platform was announced on October 20, 2010, at Apple's "Back to the Mac" event.
Here is a simplified view of the Mac OS X Tiger system startup on a PowerPC Mac (on an Intel Mac, EFI replaces Open Firmware and boot.efi replaces BootX): Open Firmware activates, initializes the hardware, and then loads BootX. BootX loads the kernel, spins the pinwheel cursor, and loads any needed kernel extensions (kexts). The kernel loads ...
Dashboard uses a variety of graphical effects for displaying, opening, and using widgets. For instance, a 3-D flip effect is used to simulate the widget flipping around; by clicking on a small i icon in the right bottom corner, the user can change the preferences on the reverse side; other effects include crossfading and scaling from icon to body (when opening widgets), a "spin-cycle effect ...
Ceased development following the 1987 spin-off of Apple's software division into Claris. [citation needed] MacX – A display server implementation of the X11 windowing system for Macs [73] using the A/UX, [74] System 7, and Mac OS 8 and 9 operating systems. [73] Discontinued in 1998 following the transition to Mac OS X which had native support ...
Mac OS X Lion and later versions include a feature called 'Launchpad", based on the appearance of SpringBoard in iOS. It includes the same features (like folders), but was not made as the home screen, more as an extension on the dock (like Dashboard). Before the Developer Preview of Mac OS X Lion, SpringBoard was