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Posts tagged: Google Notifier
Dropbox: Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily.
CloudApp: CloudApp allows you to share images, links, music, videos and files.
: Google Notifier is an application that shows you alerts in your menu bar, so you can see when you have new Gmail messages or upcoming Google Calendar events without having to open a web browser.
Reader Notifier: Reader Notifier aims to supplement the official Mac Notifier menubar plugins for OS X, in adding support for Google Reader. Reader Notifier tells you when you have new unread rss/feed items available, and lets you visit those feeds without ever going to the Google Reader interface.
CalendarBar: CalendarBar is a unique way to keep track of your events. It shows a list of upcoming events in your menubar where it’s easy to access from any application. CalendarBar supports Facebook, iCal, and Google Calendar so you can keep track of all your events with ease.
Spotlight: Hopefully no description is necessary.
All menubar icons are my own customizations and can be downloaded here.
Instructions for customizing your menubar for a black background (directions only for 10.6.*, I am not responsible if you don’t follow the directions correctly) can be found here.
(From Zachary Yocum)
: For my TV shows delight. It automatically downloads the .torrent file and opens my torrent download client when a new favorite show appears in the net.
Adium: My favorite IM client. Using the Marten-Plain White menu bar icons set.
Sparrow: Best desktop Gmail client. Period.
Skitch: I love Skitch for quick capturing and sketch notes. I use in conjuntion with Droplr (see below) because I prefer a shared image page without much clutter.
Alfred: Applications launcher on steroids. I really like the command customization, and the Powerpack rocks!
Dropbox: Should I describe it?
Droplr: It let you store images, files, texts and short URLs by just dragging anything to the menubar icon. I mostly use it with Skitch to capture -> drag -> get link.
PasteBot: Copy and paste directly to my iOS devices.
: Only for quickly adding events/reminders to my Google Calendar, I don’t use the Gmail notifier because Sparrow manages it just fine.
Typinator: A really useful text expander tool, for quick snippets and signatures.
MagicPrefs: Enhanced functionality for my Magic Mouse and Macbook Pro trackpad. Haven’t tried other alternatives, but it works amazingly.
Evernote: Love to have everything stored in one place. Even my bills and tickets. Syncing with all my devices is the best thing.
Caffeine: Because my Mac also needs a dose.
: Very cool alarm clock with nice features like use your own music, and less intrusive than Awaken. And best of all, free!
Radium: Best online radio player for Mac. Only lives in your menubar, no useless windows. Just plays the radio and also scrobbles to Last.fm.
And the Apple ones: Time Machine, Bluetooth, Airport, Sound, Battery, Hour and Spotlight.
(From Leandro Ardissone)
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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Dropbox - Awesome.
TotalFinder - which is a finder replacement that gives you tabs and a few other neat features. I don’t really need the icon but it gives me a quick way to relaunch the program if/when it crashes.
Flux - Automatically adjusts the screen temperature (I believe that’s the correct term?) of the screen to coincide with the time of day. Basically makes the screen easier on the eyes at night.
- Quick one-glance check for new mail.
Evernote - Don’t really use it anymore, but it looks cool :).
Caffeine - Keeps your Mac from going to sleep. Great for me cause I do some music performance (Reason w/ midi controller) with my Macbook so sometimes it is sitting open on stage for quite awhile unused- and caffeine makes sure it doesn’t go to sleep at an inopportune time.
- Notifications of various sorts.
Lock - This is an OS X icon, I added this little guy from Keychain Access utility (not third-party- it’s in the utilities folder) - in the preferences for Keychain Access there’s a box to “show status in menu bar”. The lock shows if keychain is enabled or not. BUT the real reason I added it was because it gives you one-click access to lock the screen!
Displays - I know it’s hokey ‘cause I’m on a Macbook Pro, but I connect to external displays a lot and this gives me quick access to change the resolution of an external display to make sure it matches native.
Then, you got your Wi-Fi, Volume, Battery (showing minutes remaining- invaluable IMO), and Date/time. I’m kind of scatterbrained so I love having the day of week, date, and time right there.
(From Kraig Hufstedler)
- I use Gmail the most and like it more than Mail.app.
- I almost always have headphones on playing music or a podcast. This app works with one you install on your phone to get Growl notifications about anything like phone calls, SMS, and battery stats.
Skitch - Screenshot app. I used it to take the picture above.
Dropbox - Cloud based file hosting and syncing.
GrabBox - GrabBox is a utility that reacts to the screenshots you take. It automatically copies the screenshots to your Dropbox Public folder, and then copies the URL to the clipboard.
Airport - Connects to Wi-Fi networks.
Battery
Date/Time
Spotlight - I use LaunchBar so the only reason this is here is because I don’t know of a way to remove it.
(From makavaile)
Griffin PowerMate, , Time Machine, Displays, Bluetooth, Airport, Character Viewer, Volume, Time, Fast User Switching, Spotlight.
(From David)