What makes Apple so special is the tiny touches in the seemingly unimportant things. Such as the menu bar icon for Time Machine.
I just glanced up while Time Machine was busy backing up my work, and noticed that not only does the icon’s arrow point anti-clockwise, but it also rotates in that direction while working.
Not such a big deal you think … but notice how the wee clock hands also rotate anti-clockwise during a backup.
And for the curious, the scissors icon belongs to Jumpcut, while the green line shows battery status, thanks to SlimBatteryMonitor.
Update: something about embedding the video broke the page. Instead click the link above to see the video.
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This page is completely mangled in Firefox. Something wrong with the coding for what I think might be a movie.
Darn. Thanks for the alert. I’ll see if I can fix it.
Two things you can try to embed video: Viddler (which I’ve been using a lot lately) and the QuickTime Embed Plugin (which I use for my QuickTime videos).
That is kind of cool. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a tiny movie — in full size!
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