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This is my new setup, with black menu bar courtesy of .
- Always stay social
- IM for Business
Sparrow - The Minimalist Mac Mail Client, it’s a very good replacement for Apple’s Mail.
Adium - Not only highly customizable but also multi-network/account
Divvy - Awesome window manager with KeyBinds
GeekTool - Embed your terminal in your Desktop. You can check my GeekLets Collections here:
BetterTouchTool - If you want to extend your TrackPad, this tool will let you.
Pomodoro Timer - Productivity at its simplest
Caffeine - Keeps your Display(s) awake
- I’m mainly using it to turn my menubar black, but it has other cool features as well.
Time Machine - How can you not have backup
DialUp Status - When using HSDPA
Wifi - Always connected
Volume Control
Battery Status
Digital Clock on 24 hour format
Lastly Spotlight
(From )
LittleSnapper - making screenshots and capturing inspiring web sites
Mailplane - my e-mail client of choice
OmniFocus - managing all my tasks and projects there
- amazing desktop app for the ReadItLater service (similar to Instapaper, but better)
- I tried bunch of other Twitter apps and came back to the official one. It’s neat and gets the work done
Dropbox - I was a SugarSync user for a while, but now I’m using Dropbox for all my current documents and keep SugarSync for long-term archives (due to its flexible selective sync features)
- I’m working a lot with people overseas, so I need IM and VOIP a lot
TextExpander - I didn’t understand for a long time why people use text-expanding apps, but once I started to use one - there’s no turning back. It’s SO good!
RescueTime - this is a new app for me, I’m trying to be more conscious about how I’m spending my time and RescueTime keeps track of all my computer activities
Pomodoro - amazing Pomodoro timer that is integrated with OmniFocus and helps me to work on my tasklist in short 25-min bursts
Isolator - another productivity app that helps me to focus on one app at a time
Cinch - simple window manager that allows me to quickly arrange windows side by side
gfxCardStatus - controls which videocard is used when I’m plugged in and which when I’m running on battery. It really helps to save battery a lot
CalendarBar - all of my calendars (yes I have more than one) are on Google and I tried to use many calendaring apps and frankly this little gem does 90% of what I need
f.lux - really saves my poor eyes when I work late at night
Caffeine - I rarely use it, but sometimes when you’re watching videos or making a presentation it’s indispensable
Transmit - FTP/S3 client of choice
Evernote - I’m a big fan and use it to store lots of reference materials
Spaces
iStat Menus - configured to show time, battery and CPU, with a bunch of other information available through a drop-down menu
Language Bar - I’m bi-lingual, so I switch a lot between English and Russian
Every other default icon (except Spaces) including Spotlight (I use Launchbar anyway) is removed since I either don’t need it or have a better alternative.
(From Xenocid)
Adium - Minimalist Adium notifier
Sparrow - Mail.app client replacement, minimal with Gmail Shortcuts option. Plus with Yahoo support.
GeekTool 3 - RainMeter counterpart for Mac. Here’s what my desktop .
Divvy - Window Management with KeyBindings. You can get the free version.
Pomodoro - Time boxing tool. The best thing about this one is that you can see the logs, very important especially if you’re billing on a task/hour basis.
And the usual Mac menu bar items: Time Machine, DialUp (using HSDPA Modem), WiFi Indicator, Volume Control, Battery, Digital Clock at 24-hour format, and Spotlight.
(From Julius Francisco)
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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)
Skitch: For capturing screen-shots.
QuickCal: I use less because I want to see my appointments and more because I was an early user of 30boxes on the web and loved the ability to write an english language appointment, e.g. Oil Change tomorrow at 9am.
TypeIt4Me:There are plenty of apps that do what TypeIt4Me does, but I’ve used this for a while and it never lets me down. I use it for two main purposes, shortcut typing and correcting my spelling on words that I often misspell. So if I have to type in my Gmail address, I created a shortcut and I just type m-y-g-m without the hyphens and it changes to my actual email address.
Dropbox: I think everyone has Dropbox at this point.
SizeUp: Easily size up your windows into half or quarter of a screen via keyboard shortcuts. Super handy.
Pastebot: I use this to paste something from my Mac that I want to use on my iPhone or iPad rather than type it out.
Spirited Away: Set which apps you want to fade away in the background after a certain period of not using them.
Pomodoro: I just started this a couple months ago and find it helpful. Work for 25 minutes, play for 5, repeat.
Hazel: Folder automated actions. I use this to monitor clean up my several folders including my downloads, desktop, and images.
Caffeine: I use this one constantly. Turns off all screensaver and screen shut-off actions.
LogMeIn: Log in to my Mac from my iPad.
: Turn my iPad into another display of my Mac.
: I attempt to send all my notifications through Growl so I can turn them all of at once when I wish and they all show up in the same spot when I leave them on.
MobileMe: I sync my contacts, calendar and assorted other mac pieces to mobile me, including my photos.
Time Machine: In addition to using Crashplan and Dropbox, I have at-home backup using Time Machine to a 500gb external hard drive.
Spaces: My on-again off-again love affair with Spaces is on again. I do most of my daily work in Space 1, leave Omnifocus by itself in Space 2, put all my music and chat in Space 3, and all my writing e.g. Scrivener, TextMate in Space 4.
Assorted Apple stuff: Bluetooth, Wi-fi, Volume, Battery, Time, Eject Drive, Accounts and Spotlight, which unlike many other people, works really well for me.
(From Kevin Farner)