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Mac Power Users

837: Menu Bar Mayhem

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2026

⏱️ 96 minutes

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Mac Power Users. I'm David Sparks and joined again by Mr. Stephen Robles.

0:07.8

How are you today, Stephen?

0:09.0

I'm doing really well, David. How are you doing?

0:11.2

I am doing great. Had great feedback on your first episode. Thanks everybody who sounded off in the

0:18.1

community and YouTube. We got the highest YouTube count we

0:22.0

ever got with a Mac Power Users episode. Thanks everybody for being so kind too in the forums

0:26.4

and in the comments. And it's a real pleasure to be here and excited to now nerd out. We're

0:30.6

now we can start nerding out about stuff. Yeah. Now we know we know about Stephen. Now we can get

0:35.6

nerdy with Stephen. uh but you're right um

0:38.4

something you're going to learn stephen is the mac power users audience is the greatest

0:42.5

audience in all a podcastathon uh they're smart and they're friendly and they're for and they're

0:49.2

willing to give us all a chance to try stuff out so i have no surprise that everybody has been

0:54.1

so warm and accepting you and uh and I've got a bunch of emails from people saying, hey, Sparks, good job on getting Stephen Robles on the show. You chose wisely. And I just wanted to tell you that. So lots of nice feedback. Well, thank you very much. Super fun. All right. This week, want to talk about menu bars. This kind of grew out of one of our warm-up calls and recordings we did at some point when you and I were kind of going through the process of getting to know each other. I shared my screen. And at that point, I'm going to like excuse myself here. I have to, I'm going to lead the excuse here. I had been in the process of

1:29.6

working with bartender. And I was trying to figure out what I was going to do for menu bar management.

1:34.1

But at that point, basically, I had menu bar items across my entire top of my pro display. And

1:41.1

Steven's on my screen. It's like, what is going on in your menu bar? And as we spoke

1:46.4

last week, Pro Display XDR is a big screen. And so I said, I saw multiple calendar menu bar items. I said,

1:52.7

David, what's happening here? Yeah, I had two of them up at that time. I had them all stretched across.

1:57.8

And he said, the way he said it, it was, I don't know, I think it was a little bit of outrage and a

2:02.7

little bit like laughter.

2:04.4

And I'm like, okay, this is a show.

2:06.4

We're going to talk about our menu bars because we haven't done on Mac Power users for years.

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