Seems like every time another Mac user looks over my shoulder, they freak out over the number of little icons I have up in my menubar. And – like all Mac geeks – we have to immediately start trading information, learning tricks, and sharing tips. I’m sure you know the drill by now.

If you were looking over my shoulder right now (and I hope that you are not) here’s the stuff you’d see in my menubar.

The larger version on the Flickr will, where appropriate, let you mouseover for the name and a link, but I’ll save you the trouble of a click by repeating the links below.

• Adium - excellent IM app
• Skitch - Beta of a mind-blowing screen capture app
• Twitterrific - Gives me my Twitter crack
• iScrobbler - Relays my “now playing” info to Last.fm
• quicksilver - Duh. It’s Quicksilver
• Spirited Away - Handy app that hides non-active apps. As seen in my MacBreak demo. Would benefit from an update to Universal Binary
• ChronoSync - Very cool app for keeping two folders synced
• Growl - Notifications out the booty (personally, I like “Music Video” style notifications)
• SynergyKM - App to let you share a keyboard and mouse between multiple computers. Haven’t gotten it working yet, but I plan to.
• Remote Desktop - Control one Mac from another Mac.
• Apple .Mac Sync - Almost-saving grace of the overpriced and underpowered .Mac suite is automatic syncing of iCal, Mail, contacts, etc.
• SoundSource - Free app for changing sound inputs and outputs (highly recommended for musicians and podcasters)
• Spotlight - It’s a piece of crap, but it’s our piece of crap. I tend to use the Quicksilver plug-in more often.