The Menu Bar along the top of your Mac’s screen is a handy place. Here you’ll find system icons related to features and functions such as the Notification Center, Wi-Fi, and Battery (if on a MacBook), ...

Welcome back to Mac 101, our series of tips for new and novice Mac users. In the Mac operating system, the term "menu bar" refers to the the horizontal bar at the top of the screen that generally has ...

I live in a small, cramped apartment in a big city. For each item I bring into my house, I feel like I need to throw something out to keep clutter from piling up. In some ways, my battle with my ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Mac menu bar is iconic. With the Apple logo in the top-left and ...

Your Mac’s menu bar is a useful tool. It displays “menu bar extras,” little icons that give you status information about your Mac, or that offer quick-access menus to certain settings. For example, ...

If there's something you want to keep track of regularly, it belongs on your Mac's menu bar. The left side of the menu bar, of course, shows the menu for the current application. The right side, ...

Adobe Acrobat can customize the window that appears when a user opens your portable document format document. By default, all PDFs open in the standard PDF-viewing window with a menu bar, toolbar and ...

To get Spotlight back, just type the following command back into Terminal: sudo chmod 775 /System/Library/CoreServices/Spotlight.app After a few seconds, Spotlight will reappear in your menu bar.

Google Chrome is a popular search engine not immediately available in many computer operating systems. Once installed, the Chrome menu bar is not automatically installed either. This is easily fixed ...