Mike, it has taken me a while but I have finally been able to compare my two Mac Minis with activity monitor. Unfortunately, they don't look very different from each other. This is unfortunate because it gives me no more of an explanation for why one of them is running the way it is. The only processes that show a great amount of activity our activity monitor and voiceover. There is another one that's called warmd and I don't know what it does. it isn't using any CPU but I just wonder about it, because it's owned by nobody.
I purchased cocktail, and I'm very glad I did. I have run it on both minis and done some tweaking, but it hasn't changed the situation on the one that is sick. It still runs extremely erratically, and voiceover cannot speak more than a few syllables without being cut off. Everything is still busy, even if the only thing running his finder. I'm starting to wonder if there's something going on with the hardware. It seems very sudden, but it's the only conclusion I have left. Kristeen On Nov 29, 2012, at 2:01 PM, Mike Arrigo <n0...@charter.net> wrote: > Cocktail is an app that allows you to tweak some things, it will also do > things like clear your cache. > You can look at the processes on your mac by going in to activity monitor, > you will find it in the utilities folder. > Original message: >> Mike, What is cocktail exactly? > >> Also, how can I learn more about the processes on the Mac and what they do. >> I am curious about the comparisons between the PC processes, which I know >> like the back of my hand, and the Mac side of the coin, which is all still >> very new to me. > > >> Kristeen >> On Nov 28, 2012, at 11:35 PM, Mike Arrigo <n0...@charter.net> wrote: > >>> If anyone is curious, I was able to figure this out. Even when I only had >>> finder running, voiceover would still say there were 2 running apps. The >>> notification center is considered an app, even though you cannot command >>> tab to it, or select it from the dock. Since I never use this feature, I >>> used an application called cocktail to disable it, now the number of >>> running applications is spoken correctly. > >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
