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Himmel Bar – Another Great Little Utility for OS X
Filed Under Computers & Tech on January 11, 2006 at 5:19 pm
In general I really like the Dock and prefer it to the Windows Start Menu. It’s great for the apps you use a lot but not so great for getting at apps you don’t use often. Well, with Himmel Bar that problem goes away!
[tags]OS X, Himmel Bar[/tags]
It’s a very small app that you can get for free from http://softbend.free.fr/himmelbar/. What it does is give you a little icon on the left-hand side of your Menu Bar which when clicked behaves like the programs part of the Windows Start Menu and hence gives you easier access to the apps you don’t want to keep in your dock. The screen shot below shows it working on my PowerMac.
[…] On OS X you can run a JARed Java App by simply double clicking the .jar file. This works but it has a few downsides. For a start you can’t keep the app in your dock so you can launch it easily and you also can’t easily launch it with things like HimmelBar. Secondly it will always have the Java JAR icon and if you’re running a few Java JARs this can get very confusing. What you really want is the same Java App but wrapped inside an OS X App. Examples of this would be the OS X version of jEdit. If you have the Developer Tools (XCode) installed on OS X this is trivial to do. If you don’t have the developer tools installed you’ll find and installer for them on your OS X DVD. […]
[…] first app launcher I tried was Himmel Bar. I used it for a few years because it was a lot better than having to use the Finder, but not […]