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Icons on the right side of the Apple menu bar, other than the Spotlight icon, are known as menu extras. You can't directly add application icons to the menu bar. The Dock or the Finder Sidebar are where you should place icons for frequently-needed applications. See: • <a href='http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh145.html'>'Ma c OS X 10.4 Help: Adding items to the Dock.'You can launch applications via the menu bar through the Scripts menu extra. 1. Launch the AppleScript Utility, which is found in the Macintosh HD > Applications > AppleScript folder. 2. Select: • 'Show Script Menu in menu bar.' This places the Scripts menu extra in the menu bar. It looks like a scroll of paper being partially unrolled. • In 'Show application scripts', select 'top.' 3. Add aliases to applications you want to use frequently to the the Macintosh HD > Library > Scripts folder. If you do not know how to create an alias, see: • Mac OS X: How to Make an Alias.You can then launch the applications whose aliases you've added to that folder by selecting them from the Scripts menu in the menu bar. You can also create a new folder in the Macintosh HD > Library > Scripts folder, e.g. call it 'Apps' and place the aliases to applications within such to better organize where the aliases reside. Mousing over the Apps folder in the Scripts menu will display a secondary menu showing the aliases to applications you've added therein. Note that there are a variety of third-party applications, such as launchers, that can be added to the menu bar that will enable you to launch applications from the menu bar. However, one should be very careful with these for the following reason: Apple reserves that area for their own use, and they state so in the Apple Human Interface Guidelines. In the chapter on Menus, in the section on Menu Bar Extras, they write: 'Reserved for use by Apple, the right side of the menu bar may contain items that provide feedback on and access to certain hardware or network settings..Accordingly, developers should not be creating or requiring their own menu extras. Third-party menu extras have often become problematic after Mac OS X Updates as they use hacks, like MenuCracker, to load their menu extra. Changes in the OS introduced by Mac OS X Updates can render third-party menu extras incompatible. Good luck! ? Dr. Smoke Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X
I would like to know how I could add a USB eject button or battery power indicator to my menu bar on Mac OS X. Mac control app volume. I remember going into my Macintosh hard drive but I can't remember which folder to find it in.
If you listen to music on your Mac as often as I do, you’ve probably recognized the need for more accessible music controls. Switching from your active app over to iTunes or Spotify to control the sound just doesn’t cut it, and the few keyboard keys don’t offer everything I need.
Instead, try putting your music controls right in the menu bar. This makes them accessible regardless of whatever app you’re using without disrupting your workflow. With just one click, you can play, pause, skip, go back, scrub through and more. Here are four Mac apps that can do that for you.
SkipTunes
SkipTunes acts as a mini media player in your menu bar. It gorgeously displays album artwork of the current song you’re listening to, plus provides controls to play/pause, skip ahead, go back, scrub through the song, adjust volume and more. You can even enable pause and skip right inside the menu bar alongside the icon. The best part is that it works with both iTunes or Spotify so you can control either source of music.
In addition, SkipTunes has built-in push notifications that let you know when a new song has started playing plus the title and artist. This is optional, but it’s a neat little feature that remains fairly unobtrusive.
SkipTunes is fantastic for music lovers, but it’s the most expensive Mac app on this list at $2.99.
Note: SkipTunes is currently experiencing a bug in which it can not pull album artwork from Spotify.
Controls+
Controls+ is a bit of a multi-tasker. On top of letting you control your music from the menu bar, it also lets you adjust the brightness of your Mac, set a screensaver to start playing, set a timer or stopwatch and more. It’s about the closest you can get to having Control Center on a Mac.
As far as the music controls go, you can play/pause, skip ahead, go back, adjust volume and view album artwork. Unlike SkipTunes though, Controls+ only works with iTunes. But the other built-in productivity features are great in making the most of the tiny space granted by a menu bar window.
Controls+ is available in the Mac App Store for $0.99.
Muzzy
Muzzy is the prettiest of all the apps on our list, but it’s the one with the least amount of functionality. What it seems to do is only include the features that aren’t already available to you on your Mac’s keyboard.
For example, you can skip back, skip forward, play/pause and adjust volume from your keyboard. But what you can’t do is scrub through a song, view album artwork, or view your current album or playlist and select songs on demand. Muzzy lets you do all of that and none of the keyboard stuff.
While it’s kind of annoying to not be able to do something as simple as pause the music from Muzzy, its minimalism makes it fast and uncomplicated. Muzzy works only with iTunes and is free in the Mac App Store.
BarTunes
BarTunes is basically like a control-click menu of controls for your menu bar. There is no album artwork on display (though you can oddly show it as a tiny icon within the menu bar — a bit counterintuitive) and no visual controls. Just click the BarTunes icon to see the song currently playing and textual menu items for Play, Next, Previous and Rating.
What’s nice though is that like SkipTunes, you can add controls for play and skip right alongside the menu bar icon too. One less click to deal with.
It’s far from elegant, but it’s basic and perfectly functional. BarTunes works only with iTunes and is free in the Mac App Store.
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