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How to make sure an app IS closed on a Mac

CompuScoop Staff May 2, 2018 0

I've been working with Macs since 2006, and one of the things that took me a while to realize is when I exit an app on Mac (coming from being a Windows user since Windows 3.1) is when I would click on the red button (upper-left corner of the screen), that I assumed that the app was exited.

What I didn't realize is, that even though an app disappears from the screen, it is not closed and out of memory. This mistake can eat up available memory and make a Mac slow down.

When exiting a Mac app, always use the ⌘Q key combination. This insures that the app is closed and not using any available RAM.

* BONUS TIP:
Here's another tip. Along with the above, you can also use the ⌘W and the ⌘Q key combinations to make sure an app is closed and out of memory (handy, when using QuickTime and don't want a previous video to play if someone else opens the app later).

Apple Watch’s Heart Rate Monitor saves Teen’s Life

Dan Uff May 1, 2018 0

The heart rate monitor on the device helped save the life of an 18-year-old suffering from undiagnosed kidney disease.

Apple Watch saved a Florida woman's life

According to WFTS, 18-year-old Deanna Recktenwald, of the Tampa area, was at an area church recently when her Apple Watch gave her a notification: her resting heart rate had reached 190 beats per minute, recommending that she seek medical attention.

Her mother, a registered nurse, then took her to a walk-in clinic, and later to an emergency room, where doctors gave her a diagnosis of chronic kidney disease, for which she had expressed no previous symptoms.

Stacey Recktenwald, Deanna's mother, later wrote a letter to Apple.

"If it wasn't for her Apple watch alarming her about her HR we wouldn't have discovered her kidney issue. I honestly feel your Apple Watch saved my daughter's life," Stacey wrote. "I am forever grateful to Apple for developing such an amazing, lifesaving product."

Tim Cook reportedly wrote back personally, thanking the Recktenwalds for sharing their story.

This is not the first instance in which an Apple Watch user has claimed the device saved their life. A woman late last year used the Emergency SOS feature to summon police after a terrible car accident. And a man in New York, also in 2017, discovered a pulmonary embolism via HeartWatch, Men's Health reported.

Via: AppleInsider.com