If you use a lot of applications that insert themselves into your Menu Bar on your Mac, then you've probably run into the problem of having them clutter it up and even force icons off of the screen.

For years, Bartender has remained one of the best ways to manage the Mac’s menu bar, especially on newer MacBook models with a notch where menu bar real estate is even more valuable. I reviewed the ...

I live in a small, cramped apartment in a big city. For each item I bring into my house, I feel like I need to throw something out to keep clutter from piling up. In some ways, my battle with my ...

Have you ever organized an unconference session? Being good GradProfHacker readers, I’m sure many of you have. My first was at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute this year at the University of ...

I’ve never got on very well with the Dock, the app launcher Apple puts at the bottom of the screen. It does very little that I find useful, and many things that simply bug me. Thank goodness for the ...

XMenu from the Devonthink people is one of those freeware apps that I recommend to every Mac user I meet. The latest update, version 1.9, is newly released and boasts visual refinements and a helpful ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. When I turn on my computer, these programs are already running; they sit in my menu bar just waiting ...

It seems as though recently, more and more useful apps are opting to stick an icon in the menu bar rather than add an icon to the Dock. On my main Mac, between a few of Apple’s own menu extras and a ...

Take back control of your PC’s Start menu and taskbar, whether you’re running Windows 10 or Windows 11. Microsoft has made a lot of changes to the Start menu and taskbar over the past few years. On ...