Canonical has come up with a replacement for the global menu bar, one of the most notable features of Ubuntu's Unity desktop and also one of its most problematic.The global menu bar places application ...

I have the scripts menu enabled, and use it quite a lot. I have application specific scripts in folders in the scripts folder of my library. These show up at the bottom of the general script menu when ...

While the menu extras in OS X are convenient, sometimes they can be occluded by the application or system menus. Here are some ways to manage them to prevent this from happening. Topher Kessler ...

Patently Apple reports on a newly-published patent application from Apple coming out of the European patent office and revealing user interfaces offering scrollable menus and toolbars designed to ...

Windows only: If you're looking for a portable application menu and launcher, Appetizer is a free, polished, and highly customizable open source candidate. Appetizer can be installed or run as a ...

Windows only: Tiny application launcher MenuApp creates a simple popup menu for any folder—giving you instant access to your files and applications without wasting memory. Using the ...

When we met the Finder a few weeks ago, you learned that OS X offers a menu bar, as well as menus to populate it. In one of the many instances of “we’ll discuss this at a later time,” I mentioned that ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Users control the HUD interface by typing in the command they want carried out. Developers of the Linux-based software say they will initially offer the HUD as an option, allowing users to "hide" ...