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    Progress Bar Illusions

    John Biggs
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
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    Biggs is the East Cost Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

    http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1

    I always wondered why OS X progress bars had an odd ripple effect and now we know: rippling progress bars seem to move faster across the screen, making you think stuff is getting done faster.

    And now you know, and we all know what knowing is half of.

    via Dvorak

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