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AppKiller: Kill Mac Apps, Processes & Send BSD Signals From Menu Bar

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Advanced Mac users often make changes to the OS via Terminal commands. For some of the simpler options, there are apps available that allow novice users (ones who don’t venture to Terminal) to make these same changes through a graphical UI. For advanced users though, the Terminal really is one of the preferred places to go when a system tweak is to be applied. AppKiller is a free Mac app that has been designed for both novice and advanced users. The name is slightly misleading though, since it doesn’t just kill apps, but also system processes, and provides an easy way to quit/restart the Finder, AirPrintDaemons, AirPort Utility etc. AppKiller executes commands in one of two ways; either by a click, or via Control + Click symbol. For each executable function, you can set one default action from the app’s preferences. It includes a number of BSD signals that you can send to an active app or process. The app’s response will of course depend on how it’s written and how it treats the BSD signal. Read More

Ctrl Alt Delete: Quickly View Active Apps & Force Quit Them [Mac]

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To force quit an app in OS X Lion, you can use the Command+Option+Escape shortcut and quickly bring up the active apps window with options to force quit them. Apps can also be forced to quit individually from the right-click menu of an app’s icon in the Dock. The shortcoming of all these options, however, is that only apps that are actively running in the Dock can be quit. There are many apps that run from the Menu Bar, and processes that run in the background, which you can’t stop using this approach. Ctrl Alt Delete is a free Mac app that extends the options you get and makes it easier to quit any app or process. It is mapped to work with the Control+Alt+Delete key combination, which is the Windows shortcut for bringing up system options including the Task Manager (the Windows equivalent to Activity Monitor). Since there is no Alt key in Mac, the combination you will use is Control+Option+Delete. The app not only quits apps, but can also hide them and force your system to log off, sleep, restart or shutdown. Read More

cmdQuit Disables Mac Lion Resume Feature, Quits All Apps With A Click

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Earlier this year, we discussed how red close button of Mac OS X app window behaves and recommended RedQuits to run command-Q command every time you click the red close button in order to completely quit the application in question. Since it becomes quite tedious to manually close applications using RedQuits or command-Q hotkey combination before shutting down the system, you may need an application like cmdQuit to automate the process. It has the ability to show/hide running apps, list all currently active processes and quit all running applications in one go. Read More

How To Close A Stuck Program In Ubuntu Linux

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You are probably familiar with Ctrl + Shift + Esc hotkey in Windows which is the way of terminating the applications which are misbehaving or are hanged. So what will you do if you encounter such a situation on Ubuntu ? Read More