Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2013. Every day (except Sunday) from mid-July until late September, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a ...

Free app Memory Clean lets you monitor your Mac’s memory usage and will clean it automatically or when asked. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services.

OS X: Your Mac likes to cache things in your "free" RAM so if you need them later you can load them quickly. This might be nice sometimes, but if you need to free up a lot of memory for a particular ...

As with any circuit board component, the gold contacts at the bottom of your desktop or laptop computer's RAM modules must be clean and free of debris in order to maintain a solid connection. If your ...

Virtual memory ensures that programs run smoothly. All programs on a PC use random access memory (RAM), but when there isn't enough memory to run a program, Windows temporarily moves information ...