Dorky, pointless Macintosh user babbling

[sarahmichelef]

A while back I decided that I wanted instant access to lots of things at my fingertips - so I loaded tons of stuff on my menubar. And eventually it started driving me CRAZY. At one point I had on my menubar: google notifier, iTunes controller, weather, displays, battery status, wireless, date and time, volume, spotlight, quicksilver, iGTD, twitterific, and Adium.

Yeah. Waaaaay too much. Over the last couple of days I have shifted everything over to the Dashboard - all that's left up there is the date and time (hacked to display as "Wed Oct 24, 2007 at 12:59 pm) and Spotlight, which I don't think I can get rid of. For the record, here's my list of widgets:

• iStat Pro (probably more than I need, but I like data)
• Google Calendar by manas tugare
• Gmail
• the standard weather, clock, iTunes, and calendar widgets
• Twitterlex by Bret Taylor
• Airport Radar - MacWireless.com's wireless monitor
• iGTD Inboxer
• Prod Me
• Flappie (just for fun)

I'm much happier. :^D

Comments

[cranky-dragon.livejournal.com]

Uh... is that picture "before" or "after"?

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

After... cuz before half that crap was in teeny tiny form on my menubar!

Silly PC user. ;^)

[childsplay7.livejournal.com]

Wholly crap! If you were a sensory child we would be having a talk......in fact....I think your screen is making *me* woozy.

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

I am laughing at you PC users... this isn't up all the time - just when I need access to any of those things! It makes what I look at the rest of the time much prettier and cleaner and less overloady.

[childsplay7.livejournal.com]

Ummm.. pc user has nothing to do with it. I've been using Bill's mac for the video stuff and at time I still think it is too much. I like the little icons that make you think there is nothing there.