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What's in my menubar?

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.

I'm out of control

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.

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I find MenuMeters indispensable; I...

I find MenuMeters indispensable; I like to know if something is pegging the CPU, or what my network throughput is, for example. http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/

I turn off fast-user switching, and do it from Quicksilver (I know all the users on my machine, so I don't need a list :-) Also, I use GeekTool to put a clock just below the menubar on the upper right, so I don't need one in the bar itself.

 
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