Comments on: Rearrange Your Menu Bar Icons http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/26/rearrange-your-menu-bar-icons/ 365 Days Of My Experience With Apple As A Switcher Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:33:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: julian miller http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/26/rearrange-your-menu-bar-icons/#comment-873 julian miller Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:58:19 +0000 http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/26/rearrange-your-menu-bar-icons/#comment-873 These are all good and useful observations and they deserve to be better known to all users. One item is not totally correct the statement that 3rd party menu items cannot be moved like apple's with the command drag approach. Some 3rd party shareware can that is designed to do that. For instance we make iClock and it is draggable with command key down. This is very useful because iClock as a much more complete clock/calendar/alarms/stocks menu is much more useful when dragged all the way to the right next to spotlight. You can download and try it out from here: http://www.scriptsoftware.com/iclock Thanks for a great help article. Julian These are all good and useful observations and they deserve to be better known to all users. One item is not totally correct the statement that 3rd party menu items cannot be moved like apple’s with the command drag approach. Some 3rd party shareware can that is designed to do that. For instance we make iClock and it is draggable with command key down. This is very useful because iClock as a much more complete clock/calendar/alarms/stocks menu is much more useful when dragged all the way to the right next to spotlight. You can download and try it out from here:
http://www.scriptsoftware.com/iclock
Thanks for a great help article.
Julian

]]> By: Nick Young http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/26/rearrange-your-menu-bar-icons/#comment-878 Nick Young Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:23:36 +0000 http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/26/rearrange-your-menu-bar-icons/#comment-878 Wow iClock looks pretty neat. I'm going to have to give it a shot. Thanks for correcting me. Do you know if there is a term for the menu bar icons that are movable vs the ones that aren't? As you pointed out, referring to one kind as 3rd party icons and the other as OS X icons is flawed. It would be cool if someone developed a program that would allow you to move any menu bar icon! Wow iClock looks pretty neat. I’m going to have to give it a shot.

Thanks for correcting me. Do you know if there is a term for the menu bar icons that are movable vs the ones that aren’t? As you pointed out, referring to one kind as 3rd party icons and the other as OS X icons is flawed. It would be cool if someone developed a program that would allow you to move any menu bar icon!

]]> By: droughtquake http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/26/rearrange-your-menu-bar-icons/#comment-882 droughtquake Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:24:16 +0000 http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/26/rearrange-your-menu-bar-icons/#comment-882 An alternative to poking around through several different System Preference Panes: [your hard drive]>System>Library>CoreServices>MenuExtras An alternative to poking around through several different System Preference Panes: [your hard drive]>System>Library>CoreServices>MenuExtras

]]> By: Titanium Man http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/26/rearrange-your-menu-bar-icons/#comment-883 Titanium Man Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:25:04 +0000 http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/26/rearrange-your-menu-bar-icons/#comment-883 Welcome to Mac. Did you know the top corners of the menu bar for Spotlight and the Apple Menu are infinite targets? Don't waste your time clicking precisely on the icons, just whip your mouse's pointer into the respective corner and click. Welcome to Mac. Did you know the top corners of the menu bar for Spotlight and the Apple Menu are infinite targets? Don’t waste your time clicking precisely on the icons, just whip your mouse’s pointer into the respective corner and click.

]]> By: Nick Young http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/26/rearrange-your-menu-bar-icons/#comment-885 Nick Young Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:32:48 +0000 http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/26/rearrange-your-menu-bar-icons/#comment-885 Ohhhhh, nice tip droughtquake. I like that there is one place to turn on any of the built in OS X icons! I always wondered why it was so easy to accidentally click on the spotlight icon, thanks for the heads up Titanium Man :) Ohhhhh, nice tip droughtquake. I like that there is one place to turn on any of the built in OS X icons!

I always wondered why it was so easy to accidentally click on the spotlight icon, thanks for the heads up Titanium Man :)

]]> By: Jim http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/26/rearrange-your-menu-bar-icons/#comment-1437 Jim Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:29:38 +0000 http://www.keynote2keynote.com/2007/04/26/rearrange-your-menu-bar-icons/#comment-1437 This has been a thorn in my side since Apple stopped allowing draggable icons back around OSX 10.4. I recently "ranted" about this: http://www.thegraphicmac.com/rant-osx-menubar-madness I can't understand why Apple chose to not allow dragging 3rd party icons. What is the big deal??? This has been a thorn in my side since Apple stopped allowing draggable icons back around OSX 10.4. I recently “ranted” about this:
http://www.thegraphicmac.com/rant-osx-menubar-madness

I can’t understand why Apple chose to not allow dragging 3rd party icons. What is the big deal???

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