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From: Otto Pylot on 16 Jan 2010 18:10
In article <paul.nospam-050771.18155416012010(a)pbook.sture.ch>, Paul
Sture <paul.nospam(a)sture.ch> wrote:

> In article <00A97A17.BD01D8EA(a)SendSpamHere.ORG>,
> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>
> > In article <paul.nospam-025EA4.14215216012010(a)pbook.sture.ch>, Paul Sture
> > <paul.nospam(a)sture.ch> writes:
> > >In article <saramerriman-FF2A8E.17035815012010(a)news.individual.net>,
> > > Sara <saramerriman(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > >> In article <00A9793F.7E7820E3(a)SendSpamHere.ORG>,
> > >> VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > >
> > >> > >It's just a grayed-out icon. Don't see what the big deal is.
> > >> >
> > >> > Me either.
> > >>
> > >> ooo I do. that's drive me nuts if it were something I didn't want.
> > >
> > >On a laptop an unwanted menu icon can take up precious real estate,
> > >particularly if you can't move the thing sideways, as I believe was
> > >reported here.
> > >
> > >I had similar experience with an icon added by the software which came
> > >with a Western Digital drive. Once I had battled my way past the
> > >marketing speak, all it did was report the percentage of used space on
> > >the drive. Now zapped by removing the software.
> >
> > I have this same icon and software on my Macs. I posted here how to get
> > rid of it. No comment reported from the OP regarding that. If you want
> > to talk about menu real estate, I have iStatP Pro installed in the menu.
> > It takes up CONSIDERABLE space but on a 17" MBP, there's still plenty of
> > space in the menu.
> >
> > Spotlight, battery, Airport, Bluetooth, Sierra Wireless EVDO, Volume,
> > Time Machine, Spaces, Keyboard Viewer, time (24hr with seconds), Date
> > (day of week), iStat (which takes up as much real estate as all of the
> > aforementioned combined), IJCanon Scanner, WeatherDock (temp, forecast,
> > Location)... all this brings me up to the middle of the screen. THere's
> > plenty of open space to the right for the application menus.
>
> Just one snag. I don't have a 17" screen. I'm running a bit of a kludge
> here as well with a 15" external monitor. Yes I need to go shopping but
> other things keep coming to the top of the list.:-(

I have a 13" MacBook with Spotlight, clock (hour and seconds), volume,
airport, Bluetooth, Time Machine, iStat, Canon utility and I've still
got plenty of space. But, to each their own.....

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