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Posts tagged: Little Snitch
Jitouch - extended gestures for Magic trackpad and Magic mouse
Sparrow - native client for Gmail
Dropbox - no further comments needed, I think
Mail Unread Menu - unread mail count for Mac mail client - with custom icons
- communicator
Adium - communicator
Little Snitch - Internet connection rules for apps
Blast - frequently used documents and apps menu
Meerkat - SSH tunneling to my home NAS server
Sidekick - activates apps and settings based on my location (E.g. disables locking computer when I am at home, etc.)
ExpanDrive - mounts remote drive (FTP, SFTP, etc.) - has a plugin for Network location
BusyCalAlarm - latest calendar events
Sophos Antivirus - there are viruses and malware designed for all OSes
Evernote - great way to record notes
Caffeine - great for keeping the screen awake
The rest is just standard Mac stuff.
Here are few things, that I have hidden from the menu bar — there is way too much stuff already:
Alfred - quick access / search anything
TextExpander - replaces texts while typing for quick text typing
Moom - window management tool
Witch - replaces Cmd+Tab with extended features (mainly restores minimized windows when switching)
TotalFinder - extend Finder functionality
Visor - docks terminal Quake style
(From Ondrej Masek)
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Skitch, , Dropbox, Xmarks, Alfred, Drobo Dashboard, BetterTouchTool, PTHVolume, iCamSource, Menubar Countdown, , Evernote, , iPhoto Buddy, ScreenSharingMenulet, Espionage, Little Snitch, LogMeIn, Plex Media Server, MobileMe, Bluetooth, iStat Menus Temperature, Applescript, Time Machine, iStat Menus Disk, iStat Menus RAM, iStat Menus CPU, iStat Menus Network, WiFi, iStat Menus Date and Time, Accounts, and Spotlight.
(From THJ)
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 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)
My menu bar is not so radical, I like to have the original Battery, AirPort and Bluetooth icons… but for me Dropbox, CloudApp and are also must haves. The other useful icons are Jumpcut, Little Snitch and of course some from iStat Menus (Network monitor, CPU monitor, and the battery percentage).
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I see most of the menu bars are quite short, so I’ve decided to submit mine:
xScope - To measure stuff on the screen when designing.
BetterTouchTool - The #1 utility if you own Magic Mouse / Magic Trackpad or MacBook.
Adium - #1 Mac Chat software. Allows me to stay in touch with my team via .
OmniFocus - The best GTD Mac software, I use it to keep my to dos and keep them synced between devices.
Pomodoro - Best Pomodoro Technique timer to stay productive by splitting task into chunks.
Emcee - Answers the “What’s playing?” question (Bit crazy that it’s $3 now, I got it for free before the Mac App Store).
Radium - Sometimes I just want to listen to something without bothering too much.
- To watch my stuff on iPad in bed.
Droplr - To quickly share screenshots with my team and other people in Adium.
Blast - Allows me to quickly access files and folders just changed.
Dropbox - Everybody knows Dropbox, right? Sync files between computers, devices and share with people.
Launch it! - Allows me to launch apps with a single hotkey. A very missing feature in Mac OS X.
Little Snitch - Firewall.
Size Up - To control windows from the keyboard. I am proud to say that I helped to develop it.
Evernote - Notebook synched between devices.
iStat Menus - RAM, CPU Temp, Fan Speed and CPU Load.
Time Machine, Bluetooth, Airport, Volume, Language - Built-in Mac OS X tools.
iStat Menus - Again this time to replace the flawed Mac OS X clock, this one gives me calendar access when I click it, not to mention a nicer menubar layout.
Fast Users Switching - Built-in.
Also I have KeyRemap4MacBook running to remap some buttons on the keyboard. Actually I switch Keyboard Layouts using single left/right shift presses and remap cmd-space to cmd-shift-space to get rid of that awful Snow Leopard language swtich. The icon for KeyMap is removed from the menubar because it has a nice Preference Pane built-in.
Phew. That’s about it.
(From Dear Apple)
I try to keep my menubar clean. File uploaders and the weather live in Dashboard.
Dropbox – if MobileMe were half as good as Dropbox, I’d be using (and paying for) it instead.
Little Snitch – I like knowing what applications are connecting to the internet, and where to.
Synergy – unobtrusive, reliable Last.fm scrobbling.
Plex – transcodes and streams my movies and TV shows to my iPhone/iPad in real-time.
Clock and Spotlight
(From Nick Heer)
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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)
, Dropbox, iScrobbler, Little Snitch, Camouflage, Caffeine, , iStat Menus (Temp, Upload/download, RAM usage and CPU usage), and Time Machine.
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Visor - Terminal.app in a Quake-style dropdown console
Dropbox - Make sure everything is up to date
Little Snitch - App blocks outgoing network connections, this is a red/green network IO monitor
iStat Menus Network - Having actual KB/s speed numbers has proved very useful over the years
Airport - Always want to know Wi-Fi signal strength!
iStat Menus Sensors - Monitoring CPU temp, ALWAYS want a quick reference for temp to protect from runaway processes melting my Mac
iStat Menus CPU - What the CPU’s been up to of late…
iStat Menus Memory - How much pie is left to eat…
iStat Menus Battery - Different icon depending on mains/charging/depleting
iStat Menus Clock - Date and time
Spotlight - Never, ever use this but the command to remove it from the menu bar via OnyX doesn’t keep it gone very long :o(
(From Chris)