Menu Bar items in Mac OS X are those little icons that live in the upper-right of your screen and do useful things like show the clock, change the sound volume, switch displays, etc. A while ago I bookmarked an incredible list of menu bar items, and I think it deserves a link here, too. Personally, I use MenuMeters a lot.
It’s tough to not use a lot of these items, but keeping too many starts taking up a significant portion of your menu bar. However, applications’ menus do take priority over menu bar items, so they will simply be hidden if an application (iTunes comes to mind) needs their space.
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I found out about some handy little menu-bar apps from blog entries like the one on Hickdesign’s journal: http://www.hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/681/
By the way, the link to the “incredible list of menu bar items” seems to be broken.
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Yeah, it seems to have broken since I wrote the post last night. Here’s a link to Google’s cache of the page.
Update: It’s back up now.
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“Incredible list of menu bar items” is really great. SoundSource is GREAT. BluePhoneElite looks cool, but the site itself suggests it costs $20 (listed as “Free” on the “incredible list of menu bar items”.) Thanks for putting this together. Gritaltch :-)
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