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Gives instant access to all menubar apps by showing a reduced app menu. Free
AccessMenuBarApps is a simple app that gives the user instant access to all menubar apps by showing a reduced app menu (so that there is more space for menubar apps). Activating/Deactivating of the reduced app menu can be triggered by keyboard shortcut, mouse gesture or click on the menubar icon.
AccessMenuBarApps runs as background app (can be configured to launch at startup) and is waiting for keyboard shortcuts (default SHIFT SPACE) or mouse gestures ("double knocking on the top border of the screen" and/or "pushing/squeezing the mouse on the top border of the screen" ) to
AccessMenuBarApps runs as background app (can be configured to launch at startup) and is waiting for keyboard shortcuts (default SHIFT SPACE) or mouse gestures ("double knocking on the top border of the screen" and/or "pushing/squeezing the mouse on the top border of the screen" ) to
What's New
Version 2.3:
- Added missing entry for public key for sparkle updates
- Universal Binary supporting now Mac OS X 10.5+ on Intel and PowerPC
- you can switch off all sound effects in the preferences
- it is now possible to have no hot key
- click on Dock icon toggles between full application menu and reduced application menu
- extended menu for Dock Icon
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or later
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AccessMenuBarApps is a simple app that gives the user instant access to all menubar apps by showing a reduced app menu (so that there is more space for menubar apps). Activating/Deactivating of the reduced app menu can be triggered by keyboard shortcut, mouse gesture or click on the menubar icon.
AccessMenuBarApps runs as background app (can be configured to launch at startup) and is waiting for keyboard shortcuts (default SHIFT SPACE) or mouse gestures ("double knocking on the top border of the screen" and/or "pushing/squeezing the mouse on the top border of the screen" ) to activate or deactivate the reduced app menu and showing all menubar apps.
Switching and mouse gestures (knocking and pushing/squeezing) can be visualized on the screen. So you can see the sensitive area of the top border of the screen. In the preferences window you can switch the visual effects on or off.
Because AccessMenuBarApps isn't a pure background app (the reduced app menu is at least necessary:-), the app is always shown in the dock as running application. Indeed this is a pure waste of space in the dock, because you don't need the dock to use AccessMenubarApps. For an expedient use of the dock space AccessMenuBarApps gives you the option to change the dock icon to an analog clock showing the current time or to some eyes tracking the mouse cursor.
You can configure the app in the Preferences window.
AccessMenuBarApps is designed for users that have a small screen (like on a 13" MacBook (Pro|Air)) or lots of right side items.
AccessMenuBarApps runs as background app (can be configured to launch at startup) and is waiting for keyboard shortcuts (default SHIFT SPACE) or mouse gestures ("double knocking on the top border of the screen" and/or "pushing/squeezing the mouse on the top border of the screen" ) to activate or deactivate the reduced app menu and showing all menubar apps.
Switching and mouse gestures (knocking and pushing/squeezing) can be visualized on the screen. So you can see the sensitive area of the top border of the screen. In the preferences window you can switch the visual effects on or off.
Because AccessMenuBarApps isn't a pure background app (the reduced app menu is at least necessary:-), the app is always shown in the dock as running application. Indeed this is a pure waste of space in the dock, because you don't need the dock to use AccessMenubarApps. For an expedient use of the dock space AccessMenuBarApps gives you the option to change the dock icon to an analog clock showing the current time or to some eyes tracking the mouse cursor.
You can configure the app in the Preferences window.
AccessMenuBarApps is designed for users that have a small screen (like on a 13" MacBook (Pro|Air)) or lots of right side items.
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Jjmccole reviewed on 06 Apr 2012
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thanks for using (or trying to use) AccessMenuBarAppps.
Now to your problem: Interaction with other applications is possible per drag and drop.
If you are in an application and want to drag a file/text/... to an (hidden) icon in the menubar, you can do this. While holding the mouse key pressed during dragging you can use the mouse gestures (knocking or pushing) to reveal the (hidden) icons of the menubar and you can drop your file/text on the icon.
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Edgarcabrera reviewed on 18 Oct 2011
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you are right, but as already stated in the description, the dock icon can't hide from the dock (it's a restriction coming with MacOS X for not background apps). But for an expedient use of the wasted dock space you have the option to change the dock icon into an analog clock or into some eyes tracking the mouse cursor (similar to xeyes).
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Paul Wirth reviewed on 16 Oct 2011
I tried some of the alternatives and enjoy the customizability of AccessMenuBarApps. Being able to activate it just with the mouse (by "pushing" the mouse to the top of the screen and/or by "knocking" the pointer twice against the top of the screen) as well as with a hotkey, makes it convenient enough to be worth it.
Only problem is so far, the sound effect won't turn off without the visual effect also being turned off.
I've only tested AccessMenuBarApps with Snow Leopard. Perhaps it is a problem with Lion?
Feel free to contact me by email.
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Jacques-971 reviewed on 16 Jun 2011
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Jic reviewed on 15 Jun 2011
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Lots of other apps already out there that do the same thing.
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Flash1296 reviewed on 15 Jun 2011
I have 19 menu bar items on the right side and there are no changes when activating "accessmenubarapps"
I tried setting different command keys, but to no avail.
"You can’t open the application “AccessMenuBarApps.app” because it’s not supported on this type of Mac."
I tried it on a MacBook Pro (which doesn't need it but also runs 10.6.8) and there were no problems.
I have downloaded it several times from different venues, thinking it might have been corrupted--and obviously then installed it several times. Nothing seems to help.
What should I check/fix? (I did look at permissions, but all seems to be in order.)
I noticed Ortisoft replying to others, and missing support at their site I thought I'd take a chance here.
I have seen your similar trouble report already at www.macworld.com and I answered in that forum.
Now to the answer:
AccessMenuBarApps v2.1 is a 64-bit application. I suppose your 13" MacBook has a Core Solo or Core Duo processor. Snow Leopard supports on this type of cpu only 32-bit applications. That's why AccessMenuBarApps (64-bit) will not start on your MacBook.
Meanwhile I've released a version 2.3 (available via http://www.ortisoft.de/en/accessmenubarapps) which solve some problems reported to me. It is a universal binary running on 10.5+ Intel 32/64-bit and PPC.
I hope you will enjoy using AccessMenuBarApps.
It would be nice if you could give me a feedback, whether v2.3 solves your problem or not, because I only have a 13" MacBookPro with Lion and a separate boot partition with SnowLeopard for compiling Universal Apps with Xcode3. So, I have only limited resources or testing. And it's just a hobby to learn programming Objective C (AccessMenuBarApps is my first app for OS X).
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