spinning beach ball a LOT more these days :(

[SooTyLaD]

hi guys,

over the past week or so the spinning beach ball (of death) has become a permanent fixture in my day to day usage of my macbook - and it happens in all different programs... i have had it happen in photoshop, safari, mail, iphoto...

twice the whole thing has froze and resulting in me resetting the computer which meant all sort of stuff was kicking up errors (time machine and external drives in particular didn't like this!)

is there anything i can do about this?

 

[Sic]

open activity monitor and find out what's being a resource hog

 

[NickK]

It may be iTunes - I get this a lot on my PC because of iTunes.

Also on Leopard msn and skype are being a pain in the but when they can't connect to the internet..