Aug 8, 2016 - The Mac's menu bar is a handy place for quick access to apps. (And you'll be able to do this with third-party extras in macOS Sierra.).
In this screencast tutorial I cover one of my favorite Mac Menubar Applications by Surtees Studios called Bartender 2. Bartender 2 is a unique menubar application that cleans up your menubar. It allows you to hide certain menubar applications until you need them.
With a click or keyboard shortcut the Bartender menubar shows up and displays all your hidden menubar items giving your more room on your menubar which is especially needed for laptops or smaller screens the don’t allow as many menubar apps to be displayed. It also has a built in search for your menubar items and various ways to customize and organize your menubar applications. I hope you like this application as much as I do! As always thanks for watching and be sure to subscribe. I am looking to do a tutorial every Monday and Friday now to bring you best of technical Mac tutorials on things like macOS Server and then regular Mac and iOS applications.
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This was originally published Surtees Studios recently it has released a public beta of Bartender 3 for testing on macOS High Sierra and macOS Sierra. It’s a free update available within, which after a free four-week trial. The popular tool for rearranging or hiding Mac menu bar items has been completely rewritten in Swift, according to the release notes. Bartender 3 also no longer requires the Bartender Helper to be installed in menu bar apps in order to control them. As a result, Bartender is no longer able to display the Bartender Bar beneath the menu bar—only within it. The change was necessary since, in macOS High Sierra, Apple has apparently tightened its security feature, preventing system items like Spotlight search from being controlled by Bartender 2. Was also with improved support for macOS High Sierra and MacBook Pro, MacBook, and iMac models released in 2017.
The popular Mac system monitor also gained improved per-process network monitoring, improved per-process memory monitoring in OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra, improved Bluetooth battery monitoring, and improved disk monitoring performance, plus a fix for an issue with the sun position in light map. IStat Menus is built into the macOS menu bar, providing power users with convenient access to system information, such as CPU and GPU usage, memory stats, fan speeds, temperatures, disk usage, and battery life. IStat Menus 5 is $18 on developer, with a free 14-day trial available. The latest update is version 5.32.