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Tekzilla Daily: Remove menu icons with a single key in OS X
Created: 11/04/2008
Video description: OS X's menu bar can get cluttered with too many icons all over the place. We show you how to remove, replace, or swap icons in the menu bar with a single keystroke.

Tekzilla Daily: Remove menu icons with a single key in OS X Video Transcript

[ Music ] ^M00:00:06

>> Hey everyone, welcome to Tekzilla Daily, I'm Veronica Belmont. Have you ever sat there staring at OS X thinking to yourself, man, my menu bar is getting way too cluttered. Well Tekzilla viewer Katie has just a tip for you. I was trying to figure out how to get rid of that annoying iSync icon sitting in the menu bar and I discovered that you can remove any icon simply by holding down command and dragging the icon off. Poof! Now you can also use this tip to reorganize the icons in the menu if you don't care for the current layout. Just hold command and drag the icon to a new position on the menu bar. And if you get rid of an icon, but then changed your mind, just go to the system preferences pane and select the appropriate setting. Thanks Katie I don't even use most of those icons up there anyway. Smile you later. Now if you have a tip or trick that you wanna share, then email us at tekzilla@revision3.com. And don't forget tekzilla.com, it's "the place" to find more tips, tricks, product reviews and how-tos. ^M00:01:00

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