Posted June 22nd, 2007 @ 09:42am by Erik J. Barzeski
Question: What's in your menu bar, from right to left?
My Answer: I have a relatively simple menu bar. From right to left, I have the blue Spotlight magnifying glass, my shortname for fast user switching, the date and time (with the second showing), .Mac Sync, AirPort, FastScripts, and TypeIt4Me. That's it.
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Posted 23 Jun 2007 at 12:33pm #
I've got Spotlight (themed by Vitae), date and time (from MagiCal), battery, sound, AirPort, FMenu, Google Notifier, CoverSutra, and Twitterific. I hate the menubar clutter, however, so for all the third-party apps, I replace the menu bar icon with a 20x20 transparent image, so it looks like there's nothing there.
Posted 23 Jun 2007 at 12:36pm #
From right to left:
Spotlight
Fast User Switching - Long Name
Blue Tooth
Clock (day, time, seconds, AM/PM)
International / Character Palette
Volume Control
Display Prefs
iChat status
TextExpander
Posted 23 Jun 2007 at 12:38pm #
Spotlight, Fast user switching name, Time and day (Sat 10:35 AM), Volume, Eject, Airport, VPN, Sync, Bluetooth, and Audio Scrobbler for Last.FM
now that's some clutter. :\
Posted 23 Jun 2007 at 12:42pm #
Also posted here. (Trying to use trackbacks broke my blog, not sure if its an issue with WordPress or Typo, but for now I'll blame Typo)
From right to left, I have Spotlight, Tunnelblick which is an OpenVPN GUI for Mac, my clock (yes it is 1:48 am), the battery indicator, processor and network usage menumeters, display and wireless menus, Twitterrific, last.fm client menu, Adium and finally Aaron Wallis' latest creation, DeskLickr, a cool little app which changes your desktop background using images from Flickr.
Posted 23 Jun 2007 at 1:03pm #
Spotlight, Date/time (Short day name & 24 hour HH:MM), FUS icon, International menu (flag), modem, airport, menumeters CPU (x2), menumeters network, scripts menu, sound, slimbattery monitor, Salling Clicker, iScrobbler
Posted 23 Jun 2007 at 2:33pm #
Spotlight
Date/Time (Day hh:mm)
Battery (icon only)
airport
SMARTReporter
Caffeine
Adium
Smetimes I additionally also have iCalViewer and ChangesMeter.
Posted 23 Jun 2007 at 2:39pm #
Spotlight
Blinking Battery on the bluetooth icon (imagine if i replaced the mouse's batteries a week ago when it started blinking how much battery I would have wasted, at this point I just wonder how much longer it will hold out for.
Clock.
Battery icon
Volume
Airport
GeekTool
Modem (For EVDO card)
EVDO Icon
MissingSync (for Blackjack)
Adium
Posted 23 Jun 2007 at 4:26pm #
Spotlight (which I never use)
Bluetooth
Clock
Battery with percentage
Speaker
Script Menu
Airport
VPN
TextExpander
WeatherDock
Gmail notifier
Twitter
iScrobbler
iGTD
Skitch
QuickSilver
Adium
Posted 23 Jun 2007 at 7:06pm #
Spotlight (graphite)
Clock
Battery
Volume
Airport
Bluetooth
Displays
SoundSource
Script Menu
Modem (for HSDPA thing)
VPN
smcFanControl
Twitterific
Missing Sync
Salling Clicker
Google Notifier
hueyPRO
iScrobbler
SSHKeychain
Um. Not excessive... no. It goes well over a third of the menu bar. Time to clear things out? Maybe.
Posted 23 Jun 2007 at 7:10pm #
Currently:
Spotlight
FUS (Icon)
HH:MM (24-hour)
UPS status
Bluetooth status
Ink
Script Menu
Input menu
AirPort status
Keychain status
MenuMeters (CPU/Network/Memory/Disk)
SoundSource
SSHKeychain
SMARTReporter
Growl status
Textpander
FastScripts Lite
Twitterrific
GrowlTunes
PTHPasteboard
VirtueDesktops
… on my 20" iMac G5. A few less on my eMac and ever fewer on my dead-display iBook G3.
Posted 24 Jun 2007 at 2:41am #
Spotlight, Time (Sun 2:40 AM), Volume, AirPort, Bluetooth, Twitterrific, Adium
Posted 24 Jun 2007 at 4:49pm #
Minimalist:
R to L:
Spotlight
Day, Time (secs)
Battery
System sound
Airport
Bluetooth
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 6:43pm #
I have all sorts of junk in my menu bar - probably too much. 🙄
Spotlight
Time (24-hour, no seconds)
Day of week
Character Palette
Battery
Volume
Displays
Airport
Bluetooth
iSync
AppleScripts
iChat
Keychain
Timbuktu
Weatherpop
SOHO Notes
Adium (when it's running)
Posted 04 Jul 2007 at 8:37am #
Spotlight (duh)
Date/time (Day hh:mm)
FUS (icon)
Volume
Intl/Character
iChat
Cee Pee You
Scripts
Classic (why? who knows...)
Quicksilver
Caffeine
Synergy
Synergy's controls (Trib 😈 )
Y! Widgets
And I thought *I* had a lot of stuff... after seeing some of these lists, I'm not so sure...
Posted 07 Jul 2007 at 10:29am #
Hi
I have too many in my menubar, and so, does any of you know if their exist a OS X-version or another thing like the old Menuette Control Panel?
Rigth->Left
Sprotligt
International
Time (with seconds)
Speakervolume
ScreenResolution
Menumeters:
Processor Speed
Diskusage and
Networkusage
Classic
iAdressX
Lock (Screen, Keychain)
ScriptMenu
GeekTool
Bluetooth
BluePhoneMenu
StuffitMenu
YahooWidget
MacFusion
ClamScanAV Sentry
Amnesty
QuickSilver
And I would like to have some more, if just my menubar could hold them ,)
Posted 07 Jul 2007 at 8:50pm #
Sebastian: Something like this?
Posted 08 Jul 2007 at 4:24am #
Oh, that was a sweet one.
But no, I was looking for the old Menuette, that changed the menus: File, Edit, Help, etc into icons, which surely didn't use so much of the screen space.
I know it will be problematic with both cocoa and aqua-applications around, but could it just help in some of them 😉
Or maybe, if it was possible to make the menu bar doubble hight, so I could have all of my icons in the lower part, or maybe put them in a "control strip" in the side of the screen 😉