Ping (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} zestyping) wrote,@ 2005-04-11 19:43:00 |
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In the time-wasting hacks department...
It occurred to me this evening that the 32x32 iChat icon might be an interesting place to put a really tiny bit of information visualization. You could have a little clock to show the local time in your time zone, or a mood icon in one corner, or a colour-coded ring to indicate what you've been doing recently, or a sparkline of some meaningful parameter.
For now it's a little bar indicating the history of my iChat status over the last hour. And just for fun the image is rotated like the hour hand of a clock, so i tumble slowly twice in a day.
It occurred to me this evening that the 32x32 iChat icon might be an interesting place to put a really tiny bit of information visualization. You could have a little clock to show the local time in your time zone, or a mood icon in one corner, or a colour-coded ring to indicate what you've been doing recently, or a sparkline of some meaningful parameter.
For now it's a little bar indicating the history of my iChat status over the last hour. And just for fun the image is rotated like the hour hand of a clock, so i tumble slowly twice in a day.
