The Menubar in Mac OS X can have some pretty handy apps added to it to make your day better. Here’s what I’ve got going on in my menubar:

Menuet - Control iTunes, display album art, fetch album art, scrobble to Last.fm.

Quicksilver - Must have, quicker searching, automate tasts, hotkeys for all.

FMenu - displays selected Facebook notifications.

Gmail Notifier - Show new Gmail mail.

Twitterific - for tweetin.

Caffeine - Stop backlight fading, sleeping and screensaver.

Menumeters - RAM pie chart, CPU meter, HD LEDs

Spaces - Displays current spaces desktop (just enable in the control panel)

You should know the rest.

Anyone got any other nice ones?

So I got my copy of Leopard Friday arvo at around 6:30, started installing at my mate’s house in Melbourne at around 8:30, went out on the town, got rightly pissed got back around 2 and we spent till about 9am playing with Leopard anf reformatting my Macbook rather than sticking with the general upgrade. It was a fair nerd session, justified though due to the amount of cigarettes and beer consumed throughout. I’m pretty bloody impressed with it, the showed off features that most know about are all good; Quick Look, Spaces, Cover Flow, the new Dock, it’s all very pretty. Time Machine has annoyed me a lot though, only through the fact that I can’t use my iPod as a backup device, which is just silly, I can only assume that someone will release a fix for this. The new photobooth stuff is rather fun, there’s some nice new screensavers, iTunes comes with some extra visualisers, which I think were already there in the same version on Tiger but I never noticed. It’s definitely spaces that’s the standout, I use to use Virtuedesktops in Tiger but this is much smoother and the way the desktops change is much more stylish, and it works seamlessly with Parallels. Definitely worth the buy.