Comments on: What’s in your Menu Bar? http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lee http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310135 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:25:28 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310135 Yeah, I had way too many icons in my menu bar. I had the hardest time trying to get rid of the iSync icon until I found these instructions – http://blog.gingergeek.com/2009/06/how-to-remove-the-isync-mobileme-icon-from-menu-bar/

]]> By: ki99 http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310134 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:36:30 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310134 mainmenu ->various system tasks
mail unread menu ->a menu for unread mail in apple mail
adium
insomniax ->to shut my notebook, and keep it running
menuprefs ->instant access to sys prefs
smcfancontrol ->to monitor my comps temp
slimbatterymonitor ->smaller then apples
ejector ->for ejecting servers, ipods, flash drives, cds, etc…
memorycell ->shows ram used by current app
input source ->(apples) for changing keyboard layouts
airpot ->(apples)
fuzzyclock ->shows time as “nearly four”, “shortly after nine”, “quarter to eight” etc..
and spotlight, just ’cause i’m too lazy to get rid of it.

]]> By: Emily S S http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310133 Tue, 27 May 2008 03:50:57 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310133 Quicksilver, Volume, Airport, Battery, Time, U.S.A. Flag for charter plate, and Spotlight.

]]> By: Felicia Saathoff http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310132 Tue, 22 May 2007 06:37:03 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310132 Does anyone have any ideas on how to keep the ibiz timer in the menu bar when you don’t have ibiz running, like you can do with ichat…

]]> By: Oyvind http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310131 Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:34:48 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310131 I have started a new menubar group on Flickr. Post your screenshots, and join the discussion.

]]> By: Scott http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310130 Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:02:46 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310130 I’ve lost spotlight from my menubar and I’d like to get it back. Any ideas on how I can do that? I’ve tried a few remedies I’ve found on the net, but none have worked.

Dual 2 GHz G5
OS 10.4.5

]]> By: Nick Santilli http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310129 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:54:50 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310129 Rick – you can either select the preference to not show it in the menubar, or you can hold APPLE (cmd) and click and drag the item out of the menubar

]]> By: Rick http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310128 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:50:22 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310128 Help, please. How do I go about removing some items from my menu bar?

]]> By: Matthias http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310127 Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:48:24 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310127 GimmeSomeTune
Monitors
iChat
Audio-Thingy
Date&Time
Spotlight

]]> By: Lee Webb http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310126 Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:25:33 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310126 Hi,

Here’s what’s in my menubar:

Skype
Adium
YouControl iTunes
Textpander
Applescripts
Bluetooth
Volume
Date and time in this format Thu 10:22 Feb 23
Username (I don’t switch users but I just like the username there)
And of course Spotlight (although I too use QS)

]]> By: John Man http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310125 Thu, 23 Feb 2006 03:10:07 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310125 I have on my menubar:

QuicKeys – http://www.startly.com – macros for OS X

Path Finder – http://www.cocoatech.com – Finder replacement

Adium – http://www.adiumx.com – instant messenger

Synergy – http://www.wincent.com – iTunes controller

You Control: Desktops – http://www.yousoftware.com – virtual desktop

You Control (clock module) – http://www.yousoftware.com – clock/date display

You Control (user switching module) – http://www.yousoftware.com – improved fast user switching interface

Spotlight

For the sake of completeness, I also have the following on my desktop:

Dock (left hand side; hidden) – out of the way as I never use the Dock (being a LaunchBar user – http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar )

Dragthing tabs (bottom) – http://www.dragthing.com – a Dock on steroids

Trash can (bottom right) – provided by Path Finder (see above)

iClip (right; hidden) – inventive.us/iClip/ – multiple clipboards

Yojimbo drop dock (right) – http://www.barebones.com – info organiser

]]> By: Lee Bennett http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310124 Thu, 23 Feb 2006 00:02:35 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310124 Adium menubar widget
IP
Timbuktu
SlimBatteryMonitor
WeatherMenu
SharingMenu
YouControl item for following National Hurricane Center feeds
Menu Meters’ TCP monitor
the usual Apple Volume, Displays, and Int’l access
YouControl’s user switching replacement
YouControl’s clock/calendar replacement
Spotlight

(this is office. similar setup at home but lacking the NHC syndication icon and adding Apple’s Airport, Modem, and Bluetooth menu icons)

]]> By: tim http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310123 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:01:30 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310123 whoops, i forgot to mention to first do “cd /System/Library/CoreServices/” first…

sorry about that.

-tim

]]> By: tim http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310122 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:57:26 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310122 how to get rid of the spotlight icon:

in terminal, type “sudo mv Search.bundle Search_SAFE.bundle”

itll ask for the admin password, then go into Activity Monitor and force quit SystemUIServer. and ka-flam, the icon is gone, but you can still use it in mail, and other programs that use spotlight.

if you have problems, dont kill me, im just the messenger, im quite happy with spotlight for my searching needs.

-tim

]]> By: Jason Terhorst http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310121 Wed, 22 Feb 2006 02:10:38 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310121 Using downloaded menu bar items?! Pah! I make my own!

Actually, you really can. There are some topics about it on http://www.cocoadev.com and http://www.cocoadevcentral.com

]]> By: MaxL http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310120 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:52:54 +0000 http://www.theappleblog.com/2006/02/20/whats-in-your-menu-bar/#comment-310120 1. iBiz timer – timer for invoicing & project mgmt app for freelancers
2. ChronoSync scheduler – automated backups to external drives
3. Slimbattery monitor
4. High Priority – task management integrated with iCal tasks
5. Audio volume
5. Day, date, & time
6. Winswitch – free, gives more granular control over fast user switching menubar item
7. ASM – Fast application switching between currently running apps a la OS 9 and before
8. Spotlight – wish I could get rid of it; I use Quicksilver instead

]]>