How to Hide & Customize the Mac Menu Bar

Published: 17 June 2020
on channel: Jake Fishman

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Hope you guys enjoyed this video on how to customize your Mac menu bar! The two programs we'll be using are BitBar to display custom scripts in the menu bar and Dozer to hide menu bar icons. All helpful links will be below, thanks for watching!

Tip - Hold CMD + drag an Icon to reposition it on the menu bar.

Please note that the BitBar website is no longer there - everything has been moved to Github, but it still contains the app download and plugins within Github.

Programs:
BitBar - http://bit.ly/bitbargit
Dozer (my preferred Menu Bar Hider) - https://bit.ly/getdozer
Bartender - https://bit.ly/bartendermac
Vanilla - https://bit.ly/getvanilla
Download Python 3: https://www.python.org/downloads/

Scripts (Please note - the website is no longer available and everything was moved to Github. These links now redirect to the general page. I will try to replace them once I find some time to the exact page within their github repo):
Nasa Picture of the Day - https://bit.ly/nasapotdjf
Calendar - https://bit.ly/bitbarcal
Active GPU - https://bit.ly/activegpu
Caffeinate - https://bit.ly/caffeinatejf
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0:33 - Dozer (Free)
1:00 - Bartender
1:15 - Vanilla (Free)
1:50 - How to use Dozer
3:00 - BitBar
5:00 - Setting up BitBar
5:30 - Adding a Script to BitBar
6:45 - My Favorite Scripts
9:30 - Download Python
10:00 - Make Nasa Picture of the Day Work
12:00 - Make Calendar Script work