Welcome to the Mac Power Users. I'm David Sparks and joined as always by your friend of

mine, Mr. Stephen Hackett. How's it going, Stephen? It's good, David. How are you? Excellent.

We're going to talk about menu bars. All those nerdy little utility apps that we've got in our

menu bars today, this is red meat for me, baby. I got a lot

to talk about. Yeah. Yeah. It's been a minute since we've touched on this. And my setup has changed

a little bit. And your list is a lot longer than mine. So we're going to have a problem.

I'll admit that right now at the beginning. But yeah, it's going to be a fun episode today talking about menu bars. There's a little bit of controversy around the menu bar at bartender. We're going to get into that later. We're also going to talk about just general strategies for menu bars. And then in the more power users today, which is the ad for extended version

of the show, Apple announced new hardware this week. So we're going to go through that as well.

A lot of stuff. Max, iPads. Good times. Max Studio got an update. That's kind of nice. Yes,

one that I have many questions about. So we will get to that. I have thoughts as well. So I think we'll just figure it out. Before we get into this, there's a note in here, because I took a little vacation last week and Stephen said, David was on vacation, so Stephen put Apple history in the outline. I did. That's kind of like when you're away, I talk about like, you know,

woodworking and obsidian and when I'm away, you talk about Apple history. I guess we figured it out.

We did. We did. I mean, you know, menu bar apps are such a,

it was such an important part of the Mac experience, right? They're, they're kind of famously not on the iPad,

and it is a very Mac thing. And for me, like, as I was going through my list and putting things

into notion that I, that I run all the time, is like, my computer is not my computer without a lot

of these. And so it kind of sent me down a rabbit hole of like,

where do these come from? You know, because in the, in the classic macOS, you didn't have

minibar apps, but you did have the control strip. Thing across the bottom showed up in like

System 7-ish, MacOS 8 eight and you could get into things like

oh let me change my resolution or volume or you know turn airport on and off you know a little bit

later into the os nine days and that did evolve to minibar, but not directly and not quickly.

In fact, in the earliest versions of OS10, there were no menu bar apps.

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