Mac Power Users episode 51, menu bar madness. Well, hello everyone, it's David Sparks. Back along with Katie. Hello Katie. Hey David Sparks back along with Katie

Hello Katie. Hey David I'm ready to get mad about menu bars I guess.

Yeah it's a long time coming we thought we'd do a show where we kind of covered the

stuff in our menu bars and we've expanded the outline.

We're going to also cover docks and dashboard.

So this will be a fun episode just to kind of jump through different apps that we find useful

every day.

And looking forward to seeing what the feedback is on this one as well

I'm sure we'll discover some new stuff.

Yeah make sure you post those comments actually we although we love getting your emails

make sure you post those on the blog though so everybody can can benefit but there are

gazillions of menu bars, dashboards, and doc actually modifier apps out there

so I'm sure we're only going to just hit the tip of the iceberg today, but we thought we'd kind of work through our list and tell you what we use and maybe you'll find some gems in there.

Yeah, definitely. Okay, so what we're going to do for the show is we're going to cover like I said the menu bar, the dock and the dashboard.

We're going to go through each one and just kind of talk through the stuff we use.

All right.

You first.

Well, do we want to talk a little bit about, you know, kind of what these things are up in the menu bars and why you have them and kind of the pros and cons of having too many or not enough?

Go for it. Okay. So, do you remember back in the days of OS8 and OS 9 when you would start up your screen and along the bottom

there would be all these extensions that would load?

There's a point to this story, I promise. Okay.

And you know, I used to think, you know, all these extensions would do really cool things and I used to think, you know,

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