Filed under: OS, Software, Widget Watch
Widget Watch: Menu Butler
Menu Butler is most likely one of those 'run it every now and then' Dashboard widgets for those times when managing your menulets manually just isn't your bag of beans. This widget simply serves as an easy launching pad for virtually all of Mac OS X's built-in menulets that live in /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras. If you start tinkering and adding some of these, they can of course be removed simply by holding command while dragging and dropping them out of the menubar.Menu Butler is free and available from MacMage.
Menulets are
those little menu bar widgets that reside in your menu bar to control such things as monitor resolutions, sound,
Airport network selection, and iChat status. While there are ways to enable most of the menulets via System
Preferences--for instance, you can enable the Display resolutions menulet from the Displays System Preference
pane--there are several that are quite useful that don't have easy ways to get turned on. Two that come to mind
immediately are the PPPoE menulet used for connecting/disconnecting to a PPPoE-based DSL service like Verizon, and the
Eject menulet which allows you to open the tray or eject CD/DVD from your optical drive without having to use the
keyboard's eject button.
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