I just added a software upgrade to my Mac, and for the Nth time was suckered into one of my reluctant pastimes: staring at that progress bar. Yet it turns out that with a trick or two, that icon can ...

Progress bars measure completed work chunks, not exact time, so they can mislead. Downloads stall at 99% often due to reassembly, checksum, or packet recovery—work happens off-screen. Perfect progress ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted Apple a patent for a web browser user interface asset that monitors download, rendering and output to display a more accurate representation of ...