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How to Force Quit an Application in OS X

When Mac apps misbehave, sometimes you need to force them to shut down. This can happen when the app enters an infinite loop, crashes, hangs or otherwise ceases responding to user input. While it’s never an ideal way to close an application, it doesn’t generally hurt the app. You won’t have a chance to save your work, of course, but with many Mac apps (especially Apple’s own macOS apps) auto-saving progress at regular intervals, that’s become less of an issue. So when you force quit apps on Mac, you will lose any data since your last save but won’t otherwise injure the program. There are… Read more

How to Force Quit an Application in OS X

When Mac apps misbehave, sometimes you need to force them to shut down. This can happen when the app enters an infinite loop, crashes, hangs or otherwise ceases responding to user input. While it’s never an ideal way to close an application, it doesn’t generally hurt the app. You won’t have a chance to save your work, of course, but with many Mac apps (especially Apple’s own macOS apps) auto-saving progress at regular intervals, that’s become less of an issue. So when you force quit apps on Mac, you will lose any data since your last save but won’t otherwise injure the program. There are… Read more

5 of the Best Alternatives for the macOS Terminal App

The default Terminal app on macOS works just fine, but it’s far from the only option available. Whether you’re looking for something with more features, something more customizable, or just something that looks cool, you’ve got a lot of options. These aren’t your only alternative terminal apps for your Mac, but they’re some of the best we’ve seen. 1. iTerm2 Of all the items on this list, iTerm2 is the closest to a go-to replacement for the Mac’s Terminal app. Plenty of people who work on the command line install iTerm2 when they set up their Mac and then never even think about any of… Read more

How to Install and Use wget on Mac

wget is a non-interactive command-line utility for download resources from a specified URL. Because it is non-interactive, wget can work in the background or before the user even logs in. The program was designed especially for poor connections, making it especially robust in otherwise flaky conditions. While wget isn’t shipped with macOS, it can be easily downloaded and installed with Homebrew, the best Mac package manager available. 1. Download and Install Homebrew To install Homebrew, open a Terminal window and execute the following command taken from Homebrew’s website: /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" You might notice the command called curl, which… Read more