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Desktoday - utility to clear the files and folders that get scattered on the Desktop and put them into a folder with today’s date
Skitch - annotate, edit and share your screenshots and images
- comfortable clipboard manager
Radium - best online radio player for Mac
DoublePane - effortless window management
Caffeine - prevents your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers
ClamXav Sentry - provides the ability to watch folders for changes and start virus scan
- Translate texts and links on the fly
MagicPrefs - enhanced functionality for my Magic Mouse and Macbook Pro trackpad.
AccessMenuBarApps - must have for accessing all menubar apps on a small display
The rest: Monitor, Bluetooth, Time Machine, Wi-Fi, Volume, Battery Status, Clock, User, Spotlight.
(From Jo)
Dropbox: A really important service for my study, but also for my personal use. I love the possibility of sharing folders to colleagues or friends. A must have app for me…
Delibar: This is a menubar client to organize and use your Delicious or Pinboard bookmarks - in combination with the Safari extension it’s a killer-app! Love it!
Sparrow: A lightweight Gmail-client. It fits my needs perfectly.
: I think everyone knows it…
CoverSutra: Great iTunes controller which gives you the ability to search your entire music library over a Spotlight-like searchbar, displays album-artwork on your desktop, it also offers really nice iTunes player controls and more…
: Don’t know why this app still has a place in my menubar… horrible weather-forecast, but at least it looks nice… ;)
: Gives you the possibility to bookmark webpages and open it via the menubar icon…. I abuse it as a “perhaps I will read it later” button…
: Altough it’s a bit expensive, I really love this little helper in my menubar - it detached Date-Line from my desktop.
Transmit: FTP client of my choice. Great UI, great functionality!
Slim Battery Monitor: Nomen est omen.
DropIn: The best extension you can get for Dropbox, adds some really nice & useful gimmicks.
Screens: Mac Client for Screens to control your Mac with your iPhone / iPad.
Facebook: Hopefully Google+ will eliminate it from my menubar…
Radium: A menubar radio player that exactly does what it promises. Has a huge selection of radio stations included.
Time Machine
Bluetooth
Volume
Analog Clock
User Switching
AirPort
: I use it in combination with strongVPN, at the moment mainly to use Spotify here. But there are some good other reasons to use it…
Spotlight
(From Joresch)
BetterTouchTool - An incredibly useful tool that helps me get the most out of my Magic Mouse/Trackpad. I currently have it configured for window-snapping (like in Windows 7), and pinch to minimize/maximize my windows.
- A very useful IM client, the one I use the most.
Twitterrific - My preferred Twitter client. I like it because of its clean, sleek, minimalistic interface; as well as the choice of colours. Helpful navigation buttons are also there to get me where I need to be quickly- whether it be messages, profile etc.
Last.fm - Scrobbles stuff I listen to; I only use it to scrobble music I’ve played on my iPhone or iPad.
ManyCam - Very useful webcam control. I can set this as 1 input to anything that uses video or webcam. I can then set the webcam source to a picture, video, etc. I use this a fair amount.
Dropbox - For syncing files on the cloud. Acts as a 2nd USB drive for me, useful for transferring and sharing files.
Bowtie - Clean, out of the way, minimalistic interface. I use this for scrobbling things I listen to in iTunes to Last.fm.
Alfred - Search for files quickly; much better and faster to use than Spotlight search. Also more minimalistic, key commands very useful.
CloudApp - I use this to upload screenshots, pictures etc. Very clean, sleek web interface. Auto-copies the picture link to my clipboard which is useful.
DisplayPad - A great app. I can use this to extend my display to my iPad; using it as a 2nd, 3rd etc monitor. Very low latency- even though it uses WiFi!
WiFi2HiFi - Brilliant streaming app. Sometimes can be out of time, but can be useful in a lot of situations!
LogMeIn - Remote Desktop app. Free, which is great. Works well with mac- speedy and responsive.
Facebook Notifications - I can see what’s going on on Facebook without opening my browser!
iChat - Set chat status, etc. Quite useful.
Bluetooth - I mainly use this just to connect my Magic Mouse, and it tells me whether the battery needs replacing.
AirPort - Default WiFi on the Mac, shows what base station I’m connected to + signal strength etc.
Volume control - I normally use this with the ‘Option’ key, so I can quickly change audio inputs/outputs.
Battery Indicator - I just stuck with the Apple indicator, with battery percentage.
Character/Keyboard viewer - helpful when entering characters with accents on them etc.
Time - Plain and simple- the time, with seconds and the day.
Fast User Switching - I don’t use this to fast user switch, but just to lock my Mac.
Spotlight Search - searching for things on my Mac. It still has its uses (ie a calculator), but I normally prefer to use Alfred instead (see above).
(From Jamie Goodliffe)
— Excellent Clipboard Manager
Divvy — Very handy window manager
— Best Twitter client I’ve found so far
The rest, VPN, Time Machine, Wi-Fi, Volume, Battery, Language, Clock, Fast User Switching and Spotlight are all built in.
(From Ole)
LittleSnapper (Paid) - For all my snapshot solutions
Dropbox - Hosting small files such as Javascript or images for scripts, and syncing 1Password
Sophos Anti-Virus - Can’t be too careful ;)
CloudApp - To upload screenshots or other files I want to quickly share
Transmit (Paid) - The best FTP client
Jumpcut - To hold all my clipboard snippets
Caffeine - To stop my MacBook from going to sleep while downloading important files
Wi-Fi - To connect to Wi-Fi networks
Battery - To see my battery level
Bluetooth - To check what bluetooth devices are connected and see their battery levels
Time - Sometimes I like to check it
Sound - Change the volume
Login Switcher - To quickly switch between users. Yet to actually use this one actively (only once switched to guest)
Spotlight - To find everything!
(From Blake Embrey)
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)
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Flux - monitor color adjuster based on the time of day (just installed, found it via this site!)
CoverSutra - iTunes controller, I use it for the keyboard controls
- server utility for streaming videos to the iOS devices
Dropbox - awesome online file sync service
Default Folder X - remembers your recent & favorite folders in Open/Save dialog windows (must-have Mac utility!)
TextExpander - expand snippets of text based on short text triggers, and much more (another must-have Mac utility)
Hazel - handy file automation tool. Folder Actions on steroids.
ClipMenu - excellent clipboard history manager
Pantone Huey - monitor calibration utility, used with the hardware calibrator
Pastebot server - copy/paste from Mac to iOS utility
CrashPlan - online backup service, beta menubar utility
Screens Connect - server for the VNC iOS app Screens
ChronoSync - backup/sync software
StreamToMe server - another iOS media streaming utility
Compost - Trash manager
ShoveBox - Note taking utility
Evernote - sync notes to other Macs/PCs and iOS devices
RemoteTap server - another VNC iOS app
- awesome notifications utility
ForeverSave - versioned file backups
Little Snitch monitor - network monitor
iStat Menus - hard drives, RAM, and CPUs modules active
OS X ites: Bluetooth, Airport, iChat, iSync, Script Editor, Keychains, Sounds, Accounts, and finally custom time/date via iStat Menus.
Yeah, I have way too much crap up there, I know. But I’m used to it now.
(From , cartoonist and humorous illustrator)
Current iTunes info - What’s playing on iTunes right now with controls as a dropdown menu so I don’t have to go to iTunes.
Sparrow - Gmail client, I just downloaded it after seeing it here and I have several Gmail accounts and it makes it convenient to juggle through them.
Evernote - Keeps random pieces of info organized. I use it as a bookmark archive for links that I want to remember for later use someday, and it works across all my gadgets (iPad, Android, etc.).
Dropbox - Great sync tool.
TinyAlarm 1.3 - Mini alarm app that lets you set up short alarms. I use it wake me up from my computer haze / daze
: I use for Gmail, but now with Sparrow I don’t think I will be needing it.
Little Snitch - Firewall, one of the best Mac personal firewalls IMO.
Camouflage - Hides cluttered desktop. Makes my mac look neat.
Caffeine - Disables sleep and screensaver when clicked. Sometimes you need your mac to stay awake. I use it a lot.
Chat Status - I swear, I found it there. I didn’t install anything to have it there.
VPN Access - To connect to the corporate network.
Sync - To sync to multiple devices/services (I didn’t install anything, it came with the Mac).
Airport - Wi-Fi signal.
Spaces - Spaces preference to choose different screens.
Time Machine - Used for backups, I never backed my computers until I started using Time Machine, it makes the effort painless.
Bluetooth
Sound Control
Display Detector
Battery status
Keyboard Preference - I use Arabic and English keyboards.
Switch Users - To quickly switch between different users.
MiniCal - Mini calendar app that shows you the month calendar in a drop down.
Spotlight
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Griffin PowerMate, , Time Machine, Displays, Bluetooth, Airport, Character Viewer, Volume, Time, Fast User Switching, Spotlight.
(From David)