Editorial Review of Nyan Cat Progress Bar
The Internet loves cats, so it was no surprise to see the
ever-so-trippy Nyan Cat become an instant Web hit. Now, riding on
the rainbow of its meme success, you can get a custom Nyan-inspired
progress bar for your Windows 7 PC.
The little app created by Ben Stone is appropriately known as
the Nyan Cat Progress Bar. The program makes light of waiting times
and sees the lovable Pop-Tart cat dance along your desktop each and
every time you transfer a file. The cool download is a modification
of one of Ben's earlier programs, called Instant Elevator
Music.
The Instant Elevator Music program automatically plays a music
file when a user is transferring a file or loading something. So as
you may have guessed, this new mod sees the now Web-famous cat
dance along the progress bar with the Nyan Cat music playing as the
process carries out.
--Chris Brandrick
Description of Nyan Cat Progress Bar
Nyan Cat Progress Bar is an app that displays the Nyan Cat over the top of progress bars in Windows. I found a thread on Reddit asking for someone to develop a mod for Windows that replaced progress bars with Nyan Cat. Since Instant Elevator Music does quite a lot of what this hypothetical app would do (ie. it finds progress bars, and plays music), I thought that modifying it to be able to display a Nyan Cat on top of a progress bar would be fairly straight-forward.
Nyan Cat Progress Bar is basically a special release of Instant Elevator Music with many of the features removed (ie. no playlists, changing music, support for splash screens, etc.) but with the addition of the display of the Nyan Cat.
The music is by daniWellP: http://aidn.papiness.com. The animation is by prguitarman: http://www.prguitarman.com/index.php?id=348.
This software is provided "as-is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. In no event shall the authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software.
(c) 2010 Ben Stone. All rights reserved.
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