Just a thought for you. Usually apps featured in the menubar are active. that means these guys are eating up some RAM and maybe even some CPU. OS X is great and managing RAM relationships, but it’s something to be aware of.

I disagree with you regarding Spotlight - it’s not crap at all. I know it does not suite everyone, but that does not make it crap. It suits my needs with thousands of emails and files, and many hundreds of folders. It finds everything, pronto.

… is there no end! I think I’ve heard it all and then some new killer app/utility shows up. I am using both quicksilver and butler so go figure…

Out with old and in with the new — you gotta try the new DeskTopple Pro! It replaces SpiritedAway, Backdrop, and menushade all in one app. It’s great!

Now all you need is a menu bar app that hides unused menu bar icons, and you’re all set.

Glad to see you’re still on iScrobbler and not “upgrading” to the ridiculous app Last.fm tried to push on us when they redesigned!

I’m curious as to why you’ve chosen to have QS, for example, in your menubar - what functionality do you get by having it there? Just invoke! And if it freezes, so does the menubar, yeah? Same thing for Growl - I can’t see why I’d ever need to seek out Growl, it comes to me!

I’m one for the slim-as-possible menubar, and I must say I’m a bit surprised to see this circus!

Often seen your menu bar line up on macbreak. Very interested in skitch, but appears its only in “private beta” at the moment.Thanks for the links!

well you disabled comment on your last post.. so i just wanna tell you how cool that was.

I got synergy working between my Macs and my Windows machines and it works beautifully.Mail me privately in case you’re interested.

I would be very interested, Helma. Perhaps Merlin could link us up..

Thanks!

PS: what happened to TextExpander, Merlin?

Wow… Merlin you got a big display. But really handy programs.

;-) – Esben

Another vote for WeatherDock; much better than WeatherSnitch, having tried them both.

My others:

wClock: the menu clock that can say “Sat, April 28th 9:45am”

Spell Catcher: if you type for a living, this is a must-have. Forget the spelling features; it’s the key expander thingie that saves you a ton of time. Never type out tags or that 40-word boiler-plate response again.

PhoneValet: record any phone conversation easily

That is a long list of items on your menubar. I would often try to keep mine as clean as possible. Too much items sometimes make me feel distracted.

you mean super os x menubar items (my little project). :)

HOLY WTF, you don’t have Menu Meters? Its by Raging Menace. Its a must have. Nobody mentioned it. Whats wrong with you people.

hmm, there is a newer version of iscrobbler at: http://www.last.fm/group/iScrobbler

There is now a universal build of FuzzyClock on the Objectpark site. I had that for a long time but was to lazy to build the DMG.

Have fun with it.

Fuzzy clock came out with a Universal Binary today (april 28) I noticed that he commented on the lack of one on the flickr inmage, and it’s almost as if they heard him and responded.

Hehehe, a friend forwarded me the link to the Flickr page and I saw the comment about the missing universal build of FuzzyClock. That was just the final kick I needed to prepare a disk image with a universal version.

Everyone asking for it got a universal binary over the past year, but I never bothered about building a disk image because I saw not much people looking for it.

I hope you like it.

I use this for killing processes:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24080

Your universal binary prayers have been answered, as of today:

http://www.objectpark.org/FuzzyClock.html

one of icons i use very often is Keychain Access icon. locking screen, locking keychain, and quick access to keychain to get those credit card numbers stored as a Secure Note.

”# Skitch - Beta of a mind-blowing screen capture app”

MIND BLOWING !!! GET A FIFE MANN

i’ve only 3 of those on my menu bar … adium and QS is there for sure … hehe …

I vote for smcFan Control. My MacBook Pro would be hitting almost 140 degrees F without it.

One night I become obsessed with finding every possible menu bar app and this is what I found…let me know if you like them I guess. 1. Quartz Desktop-Allows .qtz file on desktop…’ol favorite. Download it every time I go into Portland Apple stores. 2. Backlight 2-now there are a couple but this is th eoldest I think…adjust the opacity to about 50 and run it with Quartz Desktop for sweet endless fun. 3. Booklet…bookmarks 4. Claw menu-cant’t remember…ahhhh? 5.Coversutra-itunes 6. Gimmesometune 7. dotMac Menu 8. DScreen 9. Fuzzy Clock 10. Idleled 11. iSeek 12. Mail Unread Menu 13. MenuClockCalender 14. Menuprefs 15. Menushade 16. MenuUtils-sweet 17. Meteorolgist 18. Moving Desktop 19. MUMenu 20. OSXPlanet 21. Photo Desktop-Sweet 22. Recent Tunes 23. Semulov-good one 24. SlimBatteryMonitor 25. Tempature Monitor 26. Trackerling 27. UptimeinMenuBar 28. VirtueDesktop 29. YouControl Tunes There is a website that has most of these in one place…it is called “SuperMenu Bar Items” or something like that.

You have trouble with the dreaded Finder Hang when you forget to unmount a shared volume, right? Try DropCopy http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16250

It’s a Bonjour file transfer tool. You just drag a file onto the little circle on the desktop and it pops up a list of other computers on the network running dropcopy. Drop the file and it, well, copies. No need to mount drives for transfers. And it’s free.

haha, wow what a waste of resources. Not really impressed.

And they say Windows gets bloated with lots of crap.

check out spotinside for spotlight replacement - free and very cool http://www.oneriver.jp/SpotInside/index.html

where is your textexpander icon, merlin? i only use that program because of you.

The 4 additions I would add to the menubar are

caps warn - gives a visual and noise if your in upper case

Ired lite — allows using the apple remote for other applications

temperature monitor— allows the display of selected sensor temps

Iclock —- nice clock enhancement with good drop down features

yeah.. i still prefer the good old w2000 and before. so much stabler. and not so many ‘hidden’ features. thanks for the great entry btw.

best regards.