The Right Side of Your Mac Menu Bar
Posted April 3rd, 2008 @ 10:37pm by Erik J. Barzeski
From right to left, I have Spotlight, FUS (short username), the date/time, .Mac Sync, Time Machine, AirPort, Spaces, FastScripts, TypeIt4Me, Rivet, and occasionally Twitterrific. So, that's about ten with possibilities for an eleventh. About a year ago, I think I had about six.
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10 Responses to "The Right Side of Your Mac Menu Bar"
Posted 04 Apr 2008 at 10:48pm #
Spotlight, clock, battery, input language, Airport, volume, Time Machine, iChat, bluetooth, FUS (icon).
Posted 05 Apr 2008 at 12:51am #
Spotlight, Clock, Battery, Volume, AirPort, Bluetooth, iChat, Alarm Clock 2, Twitteriffic, MoodBlast, Skitch
Posted 05 Apr 2008 at 5:57am #
Spotlight, FUS (just the icon),clock, battery, airport, bluetooth, volume, displays, scripts, sync, vpn, SoundSource, Time Machine, CheetahWatch (HSDPA modem control/status), smcFanControl, AirPort Disk Utility Thingy, Twitterific, hueyPRO Ambient, iScrobbler.
Posted 05 Apr 2008 at 12:03pm #
Spotlight, FUS, Date/Time, Volume, Wifi, Bluetooth, .Mac Sync, VPN, Spaces, Timemachine, gReader Notifier, AudioScrobbler, Quicksilver.
13. ...though i could probably get rid of the AS, Spaces, and even VPN at this point.
Posted 05 Apr 2008 at 5:59pm #
I have everything as icon only:
Spotlight, Date/Time, Bluetooth, Airport, Input Language, Battery, Volume, Display (hrmm... i wonder why I still have this?), VPN, Synergy, NetworkLocation, MissingSync (wtf is this still doing on my machine?), Twitterific.
So that's 13, yet it looks cleaner than most simpler ones I've seen simply because they're all just icons.
Posted 06 Apr 2008 at 10:54am #
Last.fm, Google Reader, Gmail, Little Snitch, Quicksilver, iStat (network, CPU, memory, hard drive), Airport, battery, iStat calendar and Spotlight.
Exactly 13.
Posted 06 Apr 2008 at 11:39am #
Besides the usual jazz (date, Spotlight, Airport, Time Machine)...
I have (from Left to Right)
IPulse (shows CPU load and Network In/Out)
PGP (need it for work)
Gmail Notifier
Connect360 (but I never use it)
Good post, since it made me think what I really needed there.. I ended up deleting a few extraneous items.
Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 8:23am #
8: Spotlight, Date, Sound Volume, Keyboard, Bluetooth, .Mac Sync, Time Machine, FastScripts.
Posted 07 Apr 2008 at 2:23pm #
13.
Spotlight, FUS (icon), clock (with seconds), keyboard, ichat, volume, bluetooth, keychain, spaces, sync, time machine, cpu, mouseposé
I could get rid of bluetooth, sync, and CPU. Spaces also doesn't really need to be there, but it's useful sometimes when the keys for changing spaces stop working. (For some reason they randomly get disabled once every two weeks or so.)
Posted 13 Apr 2008 at 9:37am #
Adium, Synergy (although with the wonderful new MBP media keys I don't much use it anymore for anything beyond pumping out Growl notifications), Google Notifier, Monocle (if it's open), Time Machine, Bluetooth, AirPort, Volume, Battery and Clock.