AMITIAE -Monday 27 October 2014
Cassandra: Menubar Icons and the Option Key |
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By Graham K. Rogers
A couple of interesting points have appeared concerning user-accessible features that are not directly related to the preferences, but have an impact (albeit slight) on the way a user would be able to interact with the features. For example, it has been known for a while that pressing the Option key while clicking on the menubar icon for Wi-Fi, reveals a menu with a lot more information, some of which may be useful when diagnosing problems. But this additional display feature also opens doors in other menubar icon menus, like Bluetooth.
Looking through the menubar icons I have available, I found no additional items for the Accessibility menu, Messages or Scripts, but the open Time Machine menu changed as the Option key was pressed: the items Backup Now and Enter Time Machine, changed to Verify Backups (greyed out) and Browse Other Backup Disks.
In my installation (as above) the menus revealed by pressing menubar icons for the following items show additional information:
Graham K. Rogers teaches at the Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University in Thailand where he is also Assistant Dean. He wrote in the Bangkok Post, Database supplement on IT subjects. For the last seven years of Database he wrote a column on Apple and Macs. He is now continuing that in the Bangkok Post supplement, Life. |
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