- #MAC BARTENDER 2 SOFTWARE#
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A couple notes though: I used to use Clocks in lieu of the system time because it provides a good World Clock. I always keep the following visible: Volume, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Battery, and Time + Date.
#MAC BARTENDER 2 MAC#
I have a bunch of stuff built-into the Mac in my menubar, some of it is hidden and some not.
#MAC BARTENDER 2 SOFTWARE#
If you've purchased any of the other software the company makes (I can't recommend Audio Hijack enough), it's free. Now, there's no more remembering to option-click the speaker icon or opening up system preferences. It's always been a crapshoot knowing what my audio inputs and outputs would be every time I plugged something in.
#MAC BARTENDER 2 BLUETOOTH#
Basically, I use my laptop in multiple situations: plugged into a monitor with speakers, solo, with Bluetooth headphones, and with various USB audio mics and devices. SoundSource gives you a simple menu to control your sound inputs, outputs, and volume. Rogue Amoeba has been making clever Mac utilities for 15 years now, and it’s finally made the thing that I've always wanted a Mac to have.
#MAC BARTENDER 2 FREE#
SoundSource, $10 (or free with other Rogue Amoeba software) I've set a keyboard shortcut to it (Ctrl + `, if you must know) to make it even easier. It puts a little icon in your menubar, and it simply connects or disconnects from your Bluetooth headset - and shows you the connection status to boot. This is the app that solved my Bluetooth headphone toggle problem. Since I hide my dock by default, I allow it to put an icon in my menubar so I see when I have new email. There are many options out there for taking Gmail and Google calendar out of your tabs and into your dock as a separate app, but I'm still partial to Mailplane. (It's worth noting that the System Tray on Windows does this out of the box.) Mailplane 3, $29.95
Stuff that's hidden away in the secondary bar can briefly appear when there's activity, otherwise it's all a click away. It lets you more fully control all the little icons in that menubar, keeping it clean looking. Most of the time, that second line is hidden away thanks to the first item on my list, Bartender 2. The first thing you'll notice is that it's on two lines. Here’s everything, starting at the upper left and working across and down: Bartender 2, $15 Here, I'd like to talk about everything that's sitting in my menubar. I've already extolled the virtues of Alfred, which I use for keyboard shortcuts, clipboard history, and more.
Specifically, the little apps that live in the menubar and make my life easier every day. On iOS, Android, and Chrome OS, it's harder, if not impossible.Īnyway, I come not to rag on the iPad, but to praise the Mac. These operating systems are just too limited for me: when I'm annoyed by the way something works, I want to change it better suit my preferences. Which got me thinking: there are plenty of people who have made the iPad their main computer with great success - but I am not one of them, and I don't think I'll become one of them in the foreseeable future.
#MAC BARTENDER 2 PC#
In this particular case, a $0.99 app called Tooth Fairy solved my problem by giving me an easy way to connect and disconnect from the Beats X headphones.Ī PC is Personally Configurable in a way the iPad just isn’t I have solved dozens of these little UI hassles on Mac and Windows PCs with little tools and scripts - all of which I've cobbled together with Googling, not with actual programming skill. But no, this is a Mac, and on a Mac we have options for fixing these small problems. And if this were an iPhone or an iPad, I would simply have to accept that that's the way things are. In the annals of First World Problems, this is pretty near the top. This means that every time I want to use them on my Mac after using them with my phone, I have to click the Bluetooth menu, click the headphones, and click connect. Less flawless: they seem to do a worse job staying connected to both my iPhone and my computer at the same time than the Bose QC35s do. They're pretty great, and the Apple-ified system of automatically pairing them to my Mac after I pair them to my iPhone works flawlessly. Last week I bought a set of Beats X wireless headphones.
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