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Andy from the BOL forums posted this link to Super OS X Menubar Items. So, I thought I’d post what I’ve got, and ask what you guys can’t live without in your menubar.

1. Gizmo Project - Keep those cell phone bills down! Better than Skype, imho.

2. Adium - Since I use both Yahoo! Messenger (for work) and AIM/iChat for personal, it helps to have them combined into one happy program. Trust me, you’ll want to go with the default iChat options for sound… not the Adium sounds. Seriously.

3. WoW Status - This is an unlimited trial version that lets you know how crowded your favorite WoW server is. For a small fee, you can watch as many servers as you want, and also have it tell you when the wait time is low, or if the server is down, etc. Very nerdy (and useful!).

4. SMARTReporter - Make sure your hard drive is running all happy-like.

5. Gmail Notifier - Probably my favorite and most used item.

6. Synergy - I love this. Control iTunes from the menubar, so you never have to switch around applications to change tracks. Also displays what artist/track/album is playing as the songs change, in a semi-transparent window that pops up in the lower left of the screen. Worth the $15.

Of course, the little VPN icon is there for those days when I’ve got to phone it in. Missing from the group shot is the iScrobbler icon for Last.fm.