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BetterTouchTool - Just discovered this little gem and it’s great to be able to do more with touchpad gestures. Window snapping feature allowed me to get rid of ShiftIt.
Dropbox - If you haven’t heard of it or don’t use it, welcome to Earth.
Meteorologist - Handy weather, click for details, extended forecast at radar.
ClipMenu - Clipboard organizer and also useful for doing “plain text” pasting in apps without that option natively. Can configure the number of items it remembers.
Caffeine - Because it is handy at times.
Display - Because I use an external display fairly regularly, but not always the same one.
Battery - I know there are slicker third-party ones out there, but the native one does what I need.
Bluetooth - For moving stuff to/from my dumbphone.
Wi-Fi - Sometimes you need to check or tweak stuff. I use multiple networks in the course of most days.
Date and time - Because I always forget and 12-hour time stinks.
Spotlight - I occasionally use it to search, more often as a simple calculator. (Just type in your equation!)
(From Chris Moellering)
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 — Probably the most brilliant gem. I use the 50GB Pro plan.
ClipMenu — My choice for clipboard manager. Pretty simple app with a lot of custom options.
Caffeine — Click it to prevent your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers.
CloudApp — A well-known one. Allows you to share images, links, music, videos and files. Also, automatically uploads your recent screenshot and copies the link ready to share.
BaseApp — Helps you stay on top of everything that happens in your Basecamp accounts. I use Basecamp in my work and I’m tired of the inbox overflowed with Basecamp notifications. Let BaseApp do it. From creators of CloudApp.
— The one and only notification system for Mac. Should be built-in.
DisplayPad — Allows you to use your iPad as a second display for your Mac. There’s a variety of such apps, but this one seems to be the best.
— Official Twitter app.
LittleSnapper — Allows you to capture screenshots, organize them or annotate and share. This tool has a very nice and native interface and, as a UI designer, I use it a lot for capturing some inspiring elements.
The rest are built-in ones: Keyboard, Clock and Spotlight.
(From )
First a disclaimer: We develop applications for Mac and we have done a few for the menu bar that I use daily, so I will include them.
Gnotifier: A Gmail and Google account notification system for multiple accounts (mail, calendar and documents). I’ve set it to check my personal Gmail account and two company accounts that are hosted on Google Apps. We didn’t find a solution for that, so we developed it :).
The 3 next icons are CPU LED. (Using the well known red, yellow and green colors, all the leds indicate the status of some important part of your Mac). First, Disk Usage, then CPU Usage, and lastly Memory Usage.
The next one is Adium. Having to answer chats from multiple networks, that was an easy choice.
Next, my second app to be installed on my Mac: Dropbox. Full Sync Backup Cloud Storage. No more words.
And then the last icon and the first app that I use every single day. We created it after suffering tons of lost time from missing some important piece of info: Clipboard History. A clipboard history manager with tons of features and loved by thousand of happy users.
(From Ariel Di Stefano)
I’ve been trying to keep my menubar as clean as possible, and only have in it the functions that I need on a constant basis, since it is always visible.
Obsidian MenuBar - So that the menubar blends in with the trim of my MacBook Pro, and blends into my black background.
Time Machine - For back up.
Clock - With everything unnecessary removed.
Lack of Dropbox - Because launch bar has made it easy enough to open when I need it quickly.
(From Sam)
CloudApp & Droplr: Sharing documents and other files. CloudApp has a great link shortening feature (I use the keyboard wherever possible) but is limited to 25MB files. Droplr also has the much better iPhone app.
Dropbox: Using it with 1Password, PKGBackup, and other things that should be stored and accessed wherever possible. Also great photo gallery implementation for simple photo sharing
Adium: The one and only IM
: For displaying the current track
ControlPlane: Automatically switch location by rules (‘WG’ is the German abbreveation for ‘flat share’ though)
TextExpander: Save your time - use TextExpander!
Blast: Keeps track of my recently changed/opened/created files. Very good when I’m downloading tons of documents for university
Evernote: Note taking accessible over Mac, iPhone and internet
Caffeine: Prevents my Mac from falling asleep
SlimBatteryMonitor: Does what the name suggests
Then the usual: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth (with MagicMouse connected), Time Machine (damn! how I hate that exclamation mark appearing on Lion when not backing up for 30min), Clock and Spotlight.
I got some other apps running like Alfred, Default Folder X, BetterTouchTool and Divvy. I would have put them into the menu bar but the problem is my Mac being a MB13,3inch model. Therefore space on the menubar is rare.
(From gramuel)
Flux - I’ve hidden the icon since I couldn’t figure out how to change it. Tints the screen a warmer tone at night.
Vienna - RSS reader. I wish I could figure out how to disable the unread menu count though.
Gmail Notifr - nice and simple.
Echofon - Twitter app.
nvALT - great for quick note-taking.
Delibar - for access to my Delicious bookmarks.
CloudApp - quick file uploading.
Calendar - calendar that shows iCal events.
CalendarBar - I’ve hidden the menubar icon and checked “Show badge inside icon” in the the preferences, so I end up with just the number of events I have for the day.
Caffeine
Focusbar - pop-up reminders to keep me focused.
- current condition icon and temperature.
iStat Menus - battery and time.
Spotlight
Most of the custom icons are from the Clean icon set (no longer available), modified to fit different apps. The CloudApp icon is from here.
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