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Evernote - just for Notes
ReadNow - a Read It Later list app
Grooveshark - just a Fluid menubar SSB
Blast - access recently used files and apps
Secret - sure you can guess what sort of app it is from the icon but it’s gorgeous and functional
Skitch - Screenshots
Dropbox - Duh!
TextExpander - Snippets
DelibarApp - Quick access to Delicious or Pinboard.in bookmarks
Divvy - Window management
- Showing different world times
Seamless - Transition songs playing on iTunes from Mac to iPhone and back.
Fl.ux - Adjust the color temperature of your screen so working at night is easier on the eyes.
Caffeine - To stop my Mac from falling to sleep.
Fuzzy - Shows the current time in words eg. ‘ten past twelve’
There are a couple missing, Sparrow and Skype, I removed Divvy and replaced with Moom, replaced Grooveshark with Radium, and went back from Evernote to Notational Velocity.
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Scroll Reverser, Dropbox, Skitch, Adium, Hazel, Playback, Isolator, , Photo Desktop, ChronoSync, Boxcar, , iStat Menus, Spaces, Lock, Bluetooth, VPN, iChat, AirPort, Keyboard, Sound Volume, Date, and Spotlight.
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I keep my menu bar very minimalistic and with only a few very useful applications. I love minimalism.
Droplr - Image / file hosting application.
Spotlight - You should know what this is.
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Twit Menulet: By far the easiest and best way to stay up to date with Twitter. Scrolls tweets in the menu bar and is highly configurable, including width, font size, etc.
BOINCManager: Donates idle computer times for research of illnesses & diseases. Since it runs when your computer idles, it doesn’t affect your computing at all, but it DOES have far reaching consequences. Visit BOINC for details!
: Keeps my desktop clean, automagically.
Little Snitch: Spiffy firewall with network stats.
Camouflage: Hides desktop icons, for the times when you just want to see your wallpaper in all its glory. Easy on the eyes!
Jumpcut: Clipboard history manager.
Evernote: Don’t think this one needs an introduction :)
LogMeIn: Honestly, would love to get rid of this icon, but don’t know how to. Used to access my desktop remotely when I’m on the move.
MenuCalendarClock: More attractive and useful replacement for the standard date and time. Pops up the monthly calendar on a click. Paid version syncs with iCal as well.
Spotlight
(From Ranjit Chawla)
I’ve been inspired by the minimalist movement on Mac Menu Bars, and decided to clean up my already-slim menubar. I use Quicksilver as my launcher, and disabled Spotlight (both the icon and service). My other icons:
Dropbox - ‘nuff said. Wish I could hide the icon, though.
Breeze - Great window resizing tool
System Volume - I work with music a lot, so this is a must
Keyboard - I’m one of those crazy dvorak users, so I need to keep this here to switch back to qwerty for friends/colleagues who borrow my laptop
Clock - Analog ftw
Watts - Great battery icon replacement, though I wish the images for the battery state were a bit cleaner
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Dropbox - online storage, file sharing, data syncing (syncs 1Password across my Macs and iPhone)
Droplr - I use it for uploading pics and screenshots to numerous places
CloudApp - same as Droplr but I use this more and it has a nice web interface as well
ShoveBox - has become my go to notes/snippet keeper. Had it for almost a year before I really started using it but happy I did.
Caffeine - keeps my MacBook Pro awake
MainMenu - great utility to fix permissions, force quit apps, eject volumes, clear cache, and tons more
iStat Menus - I use it for battery because of the drop down it provides that has all my diagnostic info as well
Standard AirPort, Volume, Clock and Spotlight
(From Bostonguy3737)
Quicksilver - The new version
Dropbox - (of course)
Hazel - For everything that can be automated
- Automatically syncs mobile when in range and Bluetooth turned on
Magic Prefs - Magic mouse improvements
- Undistracting and quite efficient
iStat Menus - CPU, Memory, Netspeed and Date/Time
System - Networking, Time Machine, iSync, Volume and Spotlight
(From Mario Fischer)
I use Adium. I like Adium. I need Adium. Then, from left to right: CalendarBar (shows iCal and Facebook events as well as birthdays), Dropbox (icon seems not to be disableable), Espionage (password encryption for single folders), Jumpcut (Clipboard history with perfect system integration), Little Snitch Monitor (firewall), LittleSnapper (screenshots), WiFi, Time Machine (currently running…), Battery, Keyboard (ugliest icon ever produced by Apple), Clock, Hotspot Shield (Germans also want to use Hulu…), and Spotlight.
(From Nathanael)
Dropbox - I use this for quick backups, transferring files between computers, and sharing files. Dropbox is perhaps the most frequently used item in my menu bar.
Meteorologist - I am a weather junkie, and my office at work has no window, so it is very handy to have a quick way of seeing what the weather is outside. Meteorologist is both simple and powerful, but I am always looking for something even better. The temperature is usually in Celsius, but when I am in the US I prefer to use the local units.
SlimBatteryMonitor - This lets me know how much power I have left. I prefer SlimBatteryMonitor to the Mac OS X default battery monitor because it takes less space, and it provides more information.
Time Machine - This lets me easily control Time Machine, and it lets me know if a backup is in progress.
AirPort - The wireless network at work is flaky, so this lets me know if I am connected, and it gives me an easy way to control my wireless connection.
Time - This gives me the time, and nothing but the time.
Fast User Switching - I have multiple accounts on my laptop, so this is very useful.
Spotlight - This is my go-to method for finding things on my computer, but it would be nice if the interface were more powerful.
(From Stephen Holland, Astrophysicist working on gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, and globular clusters)
Dropbox, Droplr, , Pukka, ScreenShade, CoverSutra, Today, Pastebot Sync Server, FastScripts, TinyAlarm, Tags, Caffeine, SlimBatteryMonitor, AirPort, Volume, and Spotlight.
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