It happens to all Mac users sooner or later. You’re about to select a menu command in a favorite application, and suddenly your cursor turns into a beach ball that spins and spins and spins. You do everything from pounding on the keyboard to offering a sacrifice to the computer gods—all to no avail. In the jargon of the Mac world, your app has frozen.
First some good news: usually, only one application freezes at a time—even if that application happens to be the Finder. So if you move your cursor away from the program’s window, the beach ball should disappear as your Mac’s behavior returns to normal. But you’re still stuck with an application on ice.
How do you get an application to quit when you can’t access its Quit command? In the spirit of freedom of choice, OS X offers a few ways to force-quit a program. (You need to use only one, as they all do the same thing; however, you may find one method more convenient than another. And sometimes one may work when another doesn’t.)
http://www.macworld.com/2006/04/features/firstaidfrost/index.php
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