Menu extras are the small utility menus at the top-right of your screen that give you quick access to some of the system preferences and other central options in OS X, such as options to select Wi-Fi ...

Welcome to our complete guide to the menu bar in Mac OS X. Since publishing this article we’ve come up with an updated article which covers all the features in macOS Sierra and more recent versions of ...

The menu bar on a Mac tends to fill up with clutter and icons over time. Between system icons like Spotlight, the date and ...

OS X does not support a quick-access button for its contextual menu, but there is a workaround that might work for you. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

Over the years, one of my favorite Mac apps has always been iStat Menus by Bjango. In anticipation of OS X Yosemite launching, version 5 was released today with a completely new design and some cool ...

[Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2009 series. Every day until the end of June 2009, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a favorite free or ...

What it is: A menu extra that provides at-a-glance statistics relating to CPU usage, memory, drives, your network, drive temperatures, fans, Bluetooth and date & time. Stats are shown in the menu bar, ...

Safari 5.1 in Mac OS X Lion adds a new window-integrated downloads popup menu with behavior that appears to be borrowed from iPad. Safari's existing Downloads window, which lists every document, disk ...