Not Responding!
The spinning wait cursor is a cursor in Apple’s Mac OS X that indicates an application is not responding to system events. It is similar to the “not responding” status in the Microsoft Windows task manager.
The Apple Human Interface Guidelines officially refer to it as the “spinning wait cursor”; its colloquial names include “spinning pizza”, “spinning pinwheel”, “the beach ball of hell”, “spinning beach ball of death”, “Spinning beach ball of impending doom”, “spinning wheel of death”, “rainbow wheel of death”, and “marble of doom”.
The suffix “of death” in these names is a reference to Microsoft Windows’ Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), which also leads to the acronym “SPOD” for “spinning pizza of death,” commonly used in mailing lists such as Mac-L. The suffix ‘of doom’ is also commonly used. The act of an application getting the spinning wait cursor is often referred to as “beachballing”.
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LostBoy
i thought macs were perfect…
nofrillsart
This looks really cool up close.
ps-You should do a detail on the side. ;)
Soxy Fleming
this is great (takes me back that colour specifier thing does) and fills me with fear too. you don’t want to see that pizza (and I seem to see it far too often)
Natalie Tyler
I’m with NFA – bring on the detail! This is killer in the large view ;)
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what an awesome idea – well done!
AmandaWitt
Interesting concept.
Sam Dantone
The pantone deck spinning out of control…
I think that was an image in one of my nightmares.
I here the ghostly moan of a client, off in the distance, crying…
... “can you get this color?”
Sam Dantone
artist4peace
omg…........yes !and Sam,it was ALWAYS the color IN-BETWEEN the tabs…...i feel u
and what a wonderful demo of my beloved pantone tablet….sigh…..how i loved it
ad4p
greenfrog153
Congratulations on making the homepage!
Chanel2
Well done on the feature Rae!
Anne van Alkemade
very nice, congrats on the homepage feature too, Raae!
KazM
Clever use of colour
amanda Rae
well done for the featuture on the “homepage”...excellentee !!!
josiem
love this!
CapturedbyC
This looks unreal at large size! Thanks for sharing :)
Isa Rodriguez
he he!.. wonderful !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sanne Thijs
This is a screenshot from the homepage somewhere in december 2008
