If your menu bar still feels crowded, you can free up a bit more space by squeezing all of your icons together. A free ...

This simple Mac app lets you black out or dim the menu bar should you find it a source of distraction. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Mac menu bar is iconic. With the Apple logo in the top-left ...

Sometimes you need to use your entire screen at once, like when you’re working on a serious photo-retouching project or need more screen real estate for an epic GarageBand session and you don’t want ...

Windows Media Player 12 hides the top menu bar by default, because common functions are available in other areas of the media library. If another user enabled the menu bar, hiding it again conserves ...

The external monitor support in Mavericks is much improved, as we noted in yesterday’s tip on getting the Dock to show up on your second monitor. The menu bar itself will dim when you’re not actively ...

Have you ever wanted the ability to hide the Dock and/or the menu bar on an application-by-application basis? That is, when you launch iPhoto, the Dock is hidden, when you launch Google Earth both the ...

If you own a Mac computer, look at the top right corner of your screen. You'll probably see several little app icons. Some of the most popular apps, like Google Drive ...

Reader Desmond Biss would like an even cleaner Desktop. He writes: I use our living room’s LCD TV as a monitor for our Mac mini. Within System Preferences one can set the Dock to automatically hide ...

I'm trying to cleanup my menu bar of clutter and I would like to hide some of these icons without removing them. For example, Dropbox, Google Drive, scanner utility, evernote. I use all these and want ...