Not just any menu, my Apple OS X menu and the little apps that I use on a day to day basis; this post follows ‘Showing Off My Dock’ where I listed all the applications I have on my Dock. The applications on the menu bar are slightly different – usually either a preference menu or a small app that does one task and one task only.

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After sorting out a task managing application I went on a mission to find a similarly impressive invoicing app. I was previously using Google Docs to create invoices; exporting them as a PDF and then emailing the invoice as an attachment to my clients. This was OK as I had my invoices backed up / saved to the cloud – which meant they were safe and accessible from any computer or mobile device, the downside was that it took time to write out the invoice, export it and then send the email.

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I have been using TinyURL for quite some time – mainly when passing links to friends via Twitter and Facebook. I really liked it’s simplicity, copy the link from your browser, header over to www.tinyurl.com, paste it into the form and seconds later a shortened link appears ready to use. TinyURL also has a bookmark [...]

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BG Patterns is really simple tool that allows you to create repeating backgrounds by choosing a shape, a colour, the size, rotation and transparency for that shape, and finally the background colour and texture. It gives you a live preview of all your changes, and then once you are happy with the results you can [...]

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this is the first of what will hopefully be a comprehensive list of twitter tools and advise to help your twittering improve. i’ve been using twitter for just over a year (http://twitter.com/martinlucas), it didn’t take long for me to become hooked into what i think is the best social network on the web today. the [...]

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