As Gizmodo reader Christian was walking his dog the other day in Vienna, he stumbled upon what could be considered the original inspiration for Mac OS X’s “spinning beach ball of death.” The included ...

Occasionally when I open Pages, on my 13” Air with SSD, I have to sit through 20 or 30 seconds of the spinning beach ball cursor. No other applications are affected, but something in the system is ...

It’s a wait cursor, colorful and spinning, that means your Mac is thinking. But few of us are patient nor amused by its animation, so we give it names like the spinning wheel or beachball “of death.” ...