What's in Your Menu bar?
Posted by Andrew
Okay folks, here's a bit of nerdery. Erik Barzeski has asked what's in your menu bar? and I think it's about time I answered one of his questions. My menubar lives on my 12" powerbook, so I try to keep it pretty small, because I only have so much space, but recently it has expanded.
From right to left, we 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.
Now, I'm going to turn it over to you folks: what's in your menu bar. And since this is an equal opportunity blog, what's in your system tray on Windows or in your... whatever you *nix nerds call it?
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Harvs, I don’t know what most of my buttons are, but I know the skype one is there, the NOD32 antivirus icon, volume control, system temperature alert, itunes and quicktime. The others (like so much technology stuff) I’m sure are useful but I’m not sure what they are or whether I put them there, or whether I should keep them there.
Adium, Missing Sync, Google Notifier (the gmail one), Caffeine (http://www.lightheadsw.com/caffeine/ – only useful on a laptop), MenuMeters (Disk activity, network traffic, CPU, Memory – wow, I use all four of them!), iSync (dunno why this is still there, actually!), AppleScript Menu thingo, Volume (ditto – dunno why this is there, I never use it), time and date (why do you go all the way down to seconds if you’re concerned about space?), bluetooth, wireless, battery, Spotlight, MenuCalendarClock (iCal version – still haven’t registered, but planning on it once Tiger comes out and he releases a Tiger version, cause I don’t wanna pay for it only to have to (perhaps) pay for a new version) (http://www.objectpark.net/mcc.html).
as you can tell, I have a lot there, but I’ve only just moved from a 20” (powermac) to 15” (MBP) screen, and so ain’t used to being concerned with space. as you can tell, I need to clean up a little and remove the crud that has built up. ;)
I like to keep it clean. Right now, Adium, Gmail notifier, volume, clock, spotlight.
Menubar is for menus as far as I’m concerned