FuzzyClock menubar clock replacement
FuzzyClock is a human-readable clock that you can use to replace the default clock in your menubar on a Mac. Of course all clocks are "human-readable", but FuzzyClock takes it one step further, by describing the time in the terms that you might use to describe it to someone else. For example, instead of seeing 4:15 in your menubar, you'd see "quarter past four". Having to read the time differently can make you think a bit harder about the time and how you are using it. While that can be nice, at the same time if you find yourself up against a deadline, the inefficiency of having to parse text can be a bit frustrating. Some people will absolutely love this, and others won't have any time for it.
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Subscribe to commentsMike HarrisMay 7th 2007 10:22PM
I actually am finding that the words make more cognitive sense to me — it was far too easy to simply "ignore" the numeric display as simple numerals. I'm not sure if I can explain that better; essentially, the word-based time display seems to have a better connection to my actual time sense, whereas my brain can more easily filter out the numeric form as simple noise.
EleventeenMay 8th 2007 10:51AM
The biggest problem that I have with this app is that for some reason, even with anti-aliasing on, the text still looks chunky and un-mac like.