clutter

Feb 15 2005

Quickly hide your desktop clutter at the push of a button!

MenuStrip 3 lets you take control of your Mac’s menu bar and put the empty screen space to use. Create your own custom system-wide menus full of your most important files and folders. Put shortcuts to all of your favorite applications in the menu bar. Create ‘Action Buttons’ that can launch, hide, or quit groups of applications with a single click. Add free plugins that give you quick access to the contacts in your Address Book, keep track of your most frequently visited web pages in Safari, let you control iTunes without switching from the current application, and more. MenuStrip now has a Hide Desktop mode as well the lets you quickly and easily clear background windows and desktop icons from view with the push of a button.

MacPowerUser Software recently announced the release of MenuStrip 3.0.4 for Mac OS X. This update to the popular menu utility introduces an innovative new way to quickly and easily clear window and desktop clutter out of the way as you use your Mac to get work done.

This exciting new feature, coupled with MenuStrip’s existing ‘Auto-Hide Others’ setting, brings about a true ‘single-application mode’ experience. When enabled, each time you switch applications all of the background windows and desktop icons will hide out of view. This lets you focus completely on the current application. Later, when you need to access your desktop files, you can click on the Finder and the desktop icons will fade back into view.

The ‘Auto-Hide Others’ and ‘Hide Desktop’ modes can easily be toggled on and off using a convenient menu button or user-configurable keyboard shortcut. Focusing on your work has never been easier!

MenuStrip is the easiest and most flexible way to create your very own menus and shortcuts in the Mac OS X menu bar. Create menus by dragging folders full of files, or create application shortcuts by simply dragging applications to MenuStrip’s items window. If your menu bar is already cramped for space, MenuStrip can help out there too. Use MenuStrip’s control strip option to display your menu items anywhere on the screen.

MenuStrip also has a flexible plugin architecture that lets you add useful tools to the menu bar. Several free plugins are already available, with more on the way.

The currently available plugins are:

• Contacts Menu: Have your Address Book contacts quickly available in the menu bar. Easily copy addresses, emails, and phone numbers.

• TunesControl: Control iTunes playback from the menu bar. You no longer need to switch applications just to skip to the next song.

• Safari Menu: Keep track of both your most recent and most frequent web sites visited with Safari. Organizes pages by their domain name so you no longer have to dig through your History to find the page you’re looking for.

• Eject Button: Eject your CD/DVD disc or empty tray by clicking this convenient menu button. Perfect for users with keyboards that don’t have an eject key.

For more information about MenuStrip visit:

http://www.MacPowerUser.com/menustrip/index.html

Download MenuStrip 3.0.4 (744 Kb):
http://www.MacPowerUser.com/downloads/MenuStrip3.dmg

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