Add hour markers to the analog menu bar clock

Aug 22, '05 09:30:00AM

Contributed by: claudio

This hint is kind of a follow up to the hint called Re-center the analog menubar clock by murat.

I always found that the digital menu clock takes too much of the precious menubar space, but the analog one is difficult to read. For those reasons, I decided to peek in OS X's Clock.menu Menu Extra and play with the files I found. I modified the Clock_base.tif image in a way that it shows distinct hour markers and does not have the closed circle as a border. The hands are also perfectly centered (as murat suggested). In addition, it does not have a white backgroud, so you can see the original menubar backgroud "through" the clock. For me, it is now much easier to read the current time. The revised clock appears in the image at left...

You can download an archive of the mod from my .Mac file sharing page. The archive contains the modified image and a text file with instructions on how to install it using the Terminal. Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

Please note that all modifications are done at your own risk!

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