If you imagine all these icons in one row on the toolbar you will see that they would cover all available space. If you wish to you set the “show in menu bar for X seconds” option Icons for system items and user-installed utilities can be hidden by selecting “Show in Bartender Bar, not in Menu Bar.” It’s that simple. Bartender’s preference pane (captured in Monosnap, by the way). They can be hidden simply by clicking on the Bartender icon (the waistcoat and bowtie to the far right of the toolbar). In the photograph I’ve made the hidden items visible, in the row below the toolbar. To minimise this problem I use Bartender, a $15 utility that helps you manage all the icons, allowing you to hide less frequently used items behind a single Bartender icon. If you are interested, I’ve listed the apps below. Other items, shown below the menu bar in the shot above, are hidden until you click the waistcoat and bowtie Bartender icon, far right. With Bartender, the menu bar can be customised and restricted to the most frequently used utilities. When you want something, the eye has to go searching. It soon threatens to engulf the lefthand application toolbar and it can be difficult to see the wood for the trees. The more utilities you add, the longer stretches the right-hand platoon of icons. The problem with small screens, though, is menu-bar creep. This is one gorgeous little laptop that, frankly, makes the iPad Air redundant. I do like it and above all I love the lightness and thinness. I bought it with the intention of trying it and then swapping it for a more powerful 13in MacBook Pro if I don’t like it. This week I have spent a couple of days setting up a new 12in retina-screen MacBook.
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