OS X offers a very nice graphical user interface to verify and repair your hard drive, located in the Utilities folder. It’s called Disk Utility, and you can use it as the first line of defense when ...

While Activity Monitor will show you process stats, it does not give you information on which programs may be using your network bandwidth. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

PathPing The PathPing command is an interesting utility as it combines both the ping and tracert commands into one tool. Using this tool, you can check the route your request makes when connecting to ...

Command Prompt (or CMD) is Microsoft’s command-line interpreter for its Windows operating systems. It enables you to use commands for performing various operations on your computer — everything from ...