Slick Time Machine clock

26 February 2008 · 4 comments

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.

Time machine arrow.

Time machine arrow.

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.

Click to watch movie: Time machine arrow rotating.

Update: something about embedding the video broke the page. Instead click the link above to see the video.

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Maria 26 February 2008 at 10:12 35

This page is completely mangled in Firefox. Something wrong with the coding for what I think might be a movie.

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Miraz 26 February 2008 at 10:17 28

Darn. Thanks for the alert. I’ll see if I can fix it.

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Maria 26 February 2008 at 14:06 36

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).

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Maria 26 February 2008 at 14:07 15

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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