If you've got too many menu-bar apps and menu extras, they can get crowded out by application menus. AccessMenuBarApps gives you a number of options for quickly revealing those icons.

Bartender hides icons and changes how the menu bar looks. For many the free Hidden Bar will do the job, but Bartender ($16) offers customization options the former doesn’t have.

The good news is you can hide menu bar icons you're not using with the free application Ice. With it you can clean up the Mac menu bar by hiding applications you don't need to reference often.

Barbee is a powerful menu bar manager for your Mac. It can hide menu bar icons and help you clean up your workspace. The app also supports shortcuts and automations, allowing you to hide or unhide ...

Bartender is a simple but excellent little app that lets you control that flood of icons up in your menu bar on the top of your OS X window. Now, designer Ben Surtees, who we spoke with earlier ...

The Mac menu bar is iconic. With the Apple logo in the top-left and the text menu for the current application to the right, this feature has been at the top of the screen of every Apple computer ...

In Mac OS X 10.5, the AirPort icon in the menu bar had a trick up its sleeve—hold down Option when clicking the icon, and you’d see more information about the various available AirPort networks.

When icons aren’t enough. This tip is really only a good idea for your bookmarks bar. These are (or should be) the bookmarks you access all the time.