I think it is about time to once again share what resides in my menu bar. I am extremely happy with the current tools, obviously I recommend them all.

Jumpcut is free, open source and pretty cool. However it is limited to text only, so no image buffering with this one. I use it all the time, if only to simply strip the formatting.

Punakea and Pukka are the newest entries to the menu bar.

I tried Punakea when it was brand new, but didn’t like the way they tagged the files. However, not long ago Punakea switched to OpenMeta, the emerging meta tagging standard for OS X, which instantly prompted me to buy a license. The current version is great. The browser works perfectly and the tagging is close to perfect. The only thing missing is exclusion of tags, but the developers liked the idea – so maybe we will see it in a future release. I am surprised exclusion isn’t standard for all tagging apps.

Pukka was just updated with a menu bar delicious bookmark searh, across all your accounts. To access the bookmarks of each individual account, you have to access the context menu from the icon in the dock. In my experience Pukka is by far the best (and among the very few) multi-account Delicious clients out there. Please add your comment if I am wrong.

Last.fm is a very nice streaming service. I was a premium subscriber of Spotify, but the service makes it kinda hard to discover new music. Not so with Last.fm. They operate using tags added by the users, which is a fantastic way to discover new music. Last.fm also makes it easy to buy the music you are listening to. Subscribing is cheap, only about $3 per month.

Finally Tweetie, my favorite Twitter app - both on the Mac and iPhone. Not much to say about it really, except the very untraditional user interface. According the developer the interface is a result of mimicking the characteristics of view and menu navigation on the iPhone/iPod Touch. It may feel a little awkward in the beginning, but that will pass.

Airfoil Speaker, Alarm Clock, MenuBar Countdown, Voice Candy, Wallpaper Clock – are among the other menu bar based apps that I use from time to time as needed. However, for most timers I am now using Reminder – the great (free) widget from Gravity.

So there you have it, that are the apps currently residing in my menu bar. What do you have in your menu bar?

Tags: osx, Utility, workflow

Posted by Johan

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