Mac Liebe: What's in my Menu Bar
From left to right.
- Skitch, a brillant little program to quickly snap things on screen. The kicker is the drag file option, making it by far the easiest way to post picks, share or save for later. In beta.
- Twitterrific, how did I miss this program. For desktop tweets, and it looks oh so lovely. This is a real time waster if you procrastinate. $14.95 or one ad every hour.
- Coversutra, ah, my new favorite little app. This is an iTunes ad-on. It supports Growl and Last.fm - so totally worth it for me. 14.95, ouch, that's in Euros.
- Growl, somewhat hard to explain for non-Mac users. This app shows visual updates on your desktop for all sorts of programs. For instance Growl is tied to Twitter, CoverSutra, and Adium (not shown). It does this so beautifully it hurts. Shows off the Core Animation in OS X.
- Quicksilver, I'm still getting use to this, people swear by it. I don't think I'm using this to the full potential, but truthfully I like things to come easy. I may not be the right user for this program. I use Spotlight a lot more.
- Mozy, PC and Mac online backup. I'm doing the free 2gb. I've signed up for the Dropbox beta which looks great. Does some nice syncing between multiple platforms and computers. Ease of use is the reason I want this. Do you hear me Drew, I want in on the beta.
The rest are Apple standard menu bar items for a laptop - Spaces, Airport, volume, power, date, Bluetooth, and Spotlight. Each program shares an ease of use and adds to my life for the good in their own little way. I'll give Quicksilver a few more weeks, but so far it doesn't do anything more for me than Spotlight. And no, my desktop is not pink, that's 10.5 transparency. Pic below.
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