Show off your menulets.

[roncross@cox.net]

Menubar extras come up a lot on this forum. It made me curious as to what other people's menu extras look lie in the top right corner of their menubar.

Here is a picture of my menulets. I also use SlimBatteryMonitor but it only shows up when it needs to be charged.

I think we can learn a lot just by seeing how others use that extra space in the menubar.

Ok, left to right.

SlimBatteryMonitor (hidden),Path Finder, geekbind,growl,bluetooth,script menu, menu meter, airport, menucalendarclock, spotlight

[ThreeDee]

Here's mine. Has a bunch of menu extras.

Description of menu extras from left to right:

BOINC Menubar for things like rosetta@Home
iScrobbler for my Last.fm (formerly AudioScrobbler) account
S.M.A.R.T. Reporter to detect some disk drive failures.
Gmail Notifier to check for new email on my Gmail account
ClamXav Sentry scans files for viruses
MainMenu does maintenance on the system
Monitor menu changes screen resolution
iChat menu - I don't like having iChat open all the time
Keychain - sometimes lock screen or edit keychain
MenuMeters - CPU, RAM, and Network activity. Seems like my CPU is at %100 right now, seeding Ubuntu and NeoOffice via BitTorrent.
Input menu - I don't actually use this
Date/Time
Fast User Switching

[roncross@cox.net]

For my date, I use menucalendarclock. I need the date and time more than the calendar. What are you using?

[ThreeDee]

I use the built-in Mac OS X clock.

[NovaScotian]

These are (left to right): QuicKeys, SOHO Notes, CopyPaste, Google Notifier, Timbuktu, FastScripts, SMARTreporter, MenuCalendarClock, International Languages, & SpotLight

[Anti]

Mine's small.



From Left to right: Adium, Connect360, Temp Monitor Lite, iChat, AirPort, Battery, Clock, Spotlight (Bluetooth SHOULD be there...hmmz.)

EDIT: We need a "Show off your dockstuff" thread.

[Wee_Guy]

I have got a screenshot but i dont know how to attach it!

[Anti]

Quote: Originally Posted by Wee_Guy I have got a screenshot but i dont know how to attach it!

Here's how I did it.

1. Upload screenshot to somewhere like www.imageshack.us.

2. Once uploaded, take the screenshot (It's just the menulets, right? If not, follow step 2.1), find the direct link to it, and put img tags around it:

{img}link goes here{/img} (Replace the {}'s with []'s.)

2.1: If it's a large image, just link to it.

3. and you get the result in my post.

You could attach it, but I prefer to host my images off-site.

[Wee_Guy]

Here's my menu bar (left-to-right) :

iTunes controls (Butler)
Music (Butler)
This Mac (Butler)
Wireless range
Day of the week
Time
Fast user switching
Spotlight

You will need to change the ".txt" to ".jpg" for your mac to recognise it.

[NovaScotian]

Way down below the "Reply to Thread" text box there is a button "Manage Attachments". Click that and do what it says there.

[roncross@cox.net]

Quote: Originally Posted by Wee_Guy Here's my menu bar (left-to-right) : iTunes controls (Butler) Music (Butler) This Mac (Butler)

I like Butler a lot. It's my number 1 application. I don't have it anywhere in my menu bar but I do have it in my docklet. Now that I think about it, you can sort of use the docklet as a semi extension of the menu bar.

[capitalj]

I'd be lost without Butler, which occupies the first three places on my menu bar, but I don't use the docklet.

This Mac (Butler)
Bookmarks (Butler)
Web Search (Butler)
Google Notifier
Alarm Clock
Folder Sentry (ClamXav)
Meteorologist (for my wife's commute)
MenuCalendarClock iCal (the days sometimes blur for a full time Dad)
CPU (MenuMeters)
Airport
Keychain
iChat (to see if Grandad is available for a long distance visit with the kids)
AppleScript
Battery
Fast user switching (don't really need it, I just like the "J")
Spotlight

Others (Iconit, iShowU, etc.) appear when in use.

[johngpt]

It's interesting seeing the menu bars of all. I'm afraid I'm rather bland. I'm probably underusing Butler, having acquired it for its ability to assign shortcut keys to apps. I find the menu bar item I use the most is the volume control!



Thanks to Anti for the introduction to ImageShack. Quite easy to use.

Once the screenshot was uploaded to ImageShack, I then clicked and dragged on the 'Hotlink for forums' to select the url, command-C to copy it, and then just pasted it into this reply. It automatically came out with the [ ] brackets. Preview Post indicates that it should view brilliantly!

Best wishes for the new year to all.

[tom5436]

Quote: Originally Posted by capitalj I'd be lost without Butler, which occupies the first three places on my menu bar, but I don't use the docklet.

i dont no wat butler is can some one explain or just send a link

[roncross@cox.net]

The image from ImageShack looks better than the attachment that I use for this forum. I don't have to click on anything and it just shows up. Maybe I will try it next time I have to post an image.

[egypturnash]

L-R:

Adium
Doodim (I really need to hack in a custom image for that)
Apple's battery status, with edited status text
Volume control (though I almost never use it - I use the keyboard buttons)
Airport status
Spy (the two bottom-circle fragments show user/system CPU load; the dashes show I have no network activity at the moment)
MenuCalendarClock
Spotlight (never used, but I haven't bothered trying to kill the menu item)

[macarpalsyndrome]

here's mine

[roncross@cox.net]

Can you specify the names of the menulets? I am particularly interested in knowing the one on the far left.

[Anti]

I made a significant upgrade from my last set.



Temperature Monitor Lite, Last.fm, iAlertU, Growl, AirPort, Displays, Bluetooth...you get it.

[roncross@cox.net]

If there is one thing that I would change about the Airport menulet, it would be going from graphical to digital. The graphical representation of the airport menulet is not very accurate since it is subdivided into 4 bars. So each bar represents a cumulative strength of 25%*n +/- 25% where n is the high bar that is black.