On Mac menu bar apps →

Zach Hamed:

Ask any Mac power user about their menubar and you’ll get a different list of 5-10 must-have applications and utilities that boost productivity. The menubar is the mission control of a user’s computer, giving them an at-a-glance view of stats and apps that are important to them. The menubar can become so crowded, in fact, that’s there’s a menubar app that collects menubar apps. So meta.

Hamed’s breakdown of popular menu bar (Apple uses it as two words) apps is an excellent example of how parts of OS X feel out of control.

via @sabbatical