Apple Pro Tip of the Week--Under the Hood Info in the Dock

How many of you know about the utility Activity Monitor? It's located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. Activity Monitor displays things like CPU usage, memory usage, network usage and disk activity. To view this information in the dock, just drag and drop Activity Monitor on the Dock to create the icon there. Then, in Activity Monitor's preferences one can set which set of information, if any, to be displayed in the icon in the Dock. One can also select the other kinds of information by a click-and-hold on the icon. More... [Dana Baggett]

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