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Meteorologist - Great, detailed weather on my menu bar.
- Great for Gmail.
Hidden are: Coversutra and
Then just some defaults: Time Machine, Time, and Spotlight.
(From idpk)
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)
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)
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 )
Sparrow - Super simple email client, the closest (and best) thing you can get to native Gmail on the Mac. It’s got a one up on Mail.app as well since it actually has a menubar icon.
Adium - MSN is still my protocol of choice and since Microsoft Messenger is horrible on the Mac I use Adium, fitted out with a nice iChat style menubar icon which you can find over at adiumxtras.com.
Tweetie - I’m still stuck on PowerPC, so Tweetie is my best option. Pity me. It may not be the best, but it’s still a solid choice even now.
Dropbox - Self explanatory super sync’y goodness.
Keyboard Maestro - A powerful macro program I’m playing with before I bite the bullet and buy it. I use an amazing alternative menubar icon made by Jono Hunt over at Iconaholic.
Pastebot Sync - More super sync’y goodness. Lets me get copied items to and from my iPod Touch and my Mac easily.
Built in stuff - LsSaAlerter (I have no idea how to get rid of it), AirPort, Volume, Time and Spotlight (I can’t get rid of it either so it just sits there, Alfred is my choice of launcher instead).
(From Huw Martin)
: 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)
- The least lame Twitter client I’ve tried.
- Recently been trying out this slick little IMAP email client.
Dropbox (Flash Drives have now joined Floppy Disk and Zip Disk in the retirement home.)
Utility for the scanner function on the Canon MG5220 Multifunction machine. I actually use Image Capture to actually scan, but it breaks if I remove this.
controller - The device itself was designed for video editing, but I use it for brush resizing and zooming in/out in Photoshop and Illustrator. Buttons are mapped to key modifiers. (Way better than Express Keys on my Wacom Tablet.
- Necessity when working on multiple devices.
Jumpcut - Multi-item clipboard utility. Only handles text, but does it well.
Transmit - Nice FTP/S3 transfers
iChat, MenuMeters, Time Machine, Blutetooth, AirPort Signal, Keyboard/Character Viewer (for when I can’t remember how to type certain oddball characters), Media Eject, Clock, and Spotlight, which I pretty much use as an app launcher.
(From Mike Shoaf)
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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.
(From )
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)