If you’re like me (and let’s be honest, you’re exactly like me), you use a bunch of apps which add items (or menu extras, or menulets) to the right side of your menu bar. Unfortunately, due to some screwy API issues, not all of these icons can be moved, which is frustrating if you like things to be in specific places. Since you’re just like me, I know that you do.
Just loading apps (or particularly when booting, loading at startup) doesn’t do the ordering trick, because it’s solely dependent on how quickly apps load. There doesn’t seem to be a real way to stagger them, even by rearranging your startup apps.
Long story short, last night I kinda / sorta figured out a solution — a simple AppleScript which tells your computer to load a succession of applications with brief pauses in between. Like so:
It takes a little tweaking and experimenting, but you can get the timing just right pretty easily. Save the script as an app (Save As…), and stick it in your startup apps list. All done.
Still, you can’t rearrange, and if you have to quit one, you pretty much have to quit all — but for the most part, this does the trick without me having to think about it.
Now, if someone could just code a quick utility that makes all of those icons movable…
May 8th, 2009 at 2:14 am
You mean command click and drag doesn’t work for you?
May 8th, 2009 at 2:15 am
I’m an idiot that only works on some. My bad.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Pretty cool stuff - I’d love if the utility to make movable icons a reality already exists! Do I just not know about it?
July 10th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
this is a brilliant idea! i sometimes end up uninstalling annoying programs that cant be moved around.
July 12th, 2009 at 3:36 am
Just looking at those icons and thinking about that menu bar makes me so happy I don’t have to use a mac anymore
July 19th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
The voice you hear in your head is the power of the Gods. It’s a remote technology, like a computer, perhaps functioning on some frequency, and it can listen and talk to everyone in the universe simultaneously.
What the Gods taught the children was the truth:::God is everywhere, and if you want to go to heaven you have to be good.
It is a tool, and the Gods use their tools to test people with temptation:::It will role-play people in your life, parent, friends, spouses, and employers in an attempt to corrupt people. It does the very same thing to those people whom you think you’re hearing.
But this “agent of the Gods” can do more than just communicate. It can force thoughts into people’s heads, force behaviors onto their bodies. It can turn healthy cells in your body into cancerous cells. It is absolute power. And that is just the beginning.
The Gods favor the children most among all the people due to their innocence and purity. But society and the God’s tools therein corrupt the children at a progressively younger age, yet another clue illustrating we live in a constantly deteriorating environment.
Children who fix their problems with the Gods accend into heaven. Adults enter clone hosting. The gods sell them as one in the same, but one is good while the other is evil.
And their corruption will cost the disfavored, for they will be reincarnated as a lesser life form into an ever deteriorating world, sucess becoming ever more elluding with each passing life.
The hole they’ve dug for themselves is even deeper than the one that existed from their prior lives, ensuring it will take even more time and work to fix their problems with the Gods. And for many of us there may not be enough time left.
Ours is an envionment where evil is perceived to be rewarded while good is punished. There is a reason::::
People who fall on the good side of the good/evil scale have more favor, and when they do something wrong the Gods punish them BECAUSE THEY WANT THEM TO LEARN. The Gods want them to receive this feedback in hope they make corrections and begin to behave appropriately. The Gods DON’T like evil and refuse to grant this feedback.
EVERYBODY pays for what they do wrong, only evil people must wait until their next life before they will experience the wrath of the Gods, manifested in their placement as a lower form of life.
Sadly, this allows the Gods to position this perception of evil rewarded as temptation and use it as an EXTREMELY effective corruptor.
The Gods send the clue that the Jews are HIGHLY corruptable with the movie “The Ten Commandments”.
Jesus was the “King of the Jews”. Typical for the disfavored, once goals were achieved and sufficient damage was incurred the Gods allowed it to end, and the Jews killed him.
Some of our society’s values are a reflection of the God’s:::Punitive and reward based. Contrary to Jesus’s teaching’s you will NOT be forgiven and you have to earn your way into heaven:::::As we learned from religious/morality education during our formitable years:::If you want to go to heaven you have to be good. The only savior that will exist in our lives is ourselves.
As like so many of you, Jesus did everything the Gods tempted him with. His legacy of whorism in the legacy inherited from his parents:::Mary was no virgin. Rather, she was a prostitute, and Jesus met someone like dear ‘ole mom. This is a cruel joke the Gods play on Latinos, similar to the rape and subsequent “missionary work” by the Spanish. And it is because of their disfavor.
Baptism does not allieviate “original sin”. Rather, baptism PLACES original sin by indoctrinating these children into this evil religion, much like circumcision was a method to inflict early damage/mutilation and make accention just that much more difficult, another hurdle one must overcome, and yet another clue we live in a constantly deteriorating environment.
This is just another example of “reverse positioning” which the Gods have so frequently integrated into Planet Earth’s history::::The Second Coming of Christ is evil while the Anti-Christ will try to save Planet Earth by reinstituting so many of mankind’s past norms and mores which made life decent, looking like a facist, the “bad guy” in this modern era of indecency.
No matter what they say, no matter what you hear the Gods WILL enforce their Italian/mafia positioning.
The only difference is their grandfathers carried automatic weapons.
Everyone who failed to accend and remained on Earth past a certain date will be forced to deal with this positioning::::A ceiling is in place.
This serves the God’s goal of minimizing the percentage of potential candidates as society deteriorates, much as “instant gratification” did beginning in the 80s:::It will take multiple lives for some disfavored to fix their relationship with the Gods and accend, and many have been conditioned not to have the patience for it.
Whether behavior is involuntary or based on freewill depends on one’s level of disfavor, as well as other complex factors:::::May I remind you about the coercitive envionment the Gods created in the 20th century, specifically to create a temptation that few Italians (or their associates) would overcome:::”We’re in control. If you want to be a part of it you’ll do what you’re told.”.
What about black people??? Consistant with Planet Reverse Positioning, in Africa blacks are being punished with AIDS for their sexual promiscuity in hope they learn and correct their behavior.
Both Africa and the Medittereanean are regions which have sexual issues. This is a sign of gross disfavor once you understand that females are the God’s favored gender. Black misogyny is the most eggregious example in the recent past.
Vailing is a practical response to aid in the men’s self control among the cultures which practice it.
Militancy in Africa is consistant with the Iraqi example, as was slavery and the KKK here in America:::Fear enforces proper behavior. Without it we see what happens as a result of gross disfavor:::::AIDS, crack babies, dead young men in gangland retaliation killings.
“The Chosen People” - Africa. Italians HATE Africans because of their invasion/rape of Southern Italy. The Gods did this SPECIFICALLY to strategically position their 20th century goals:::
I’ve illustratedd how they used the ghettos of America as a dumping ground. This may be temporary/cyclical, illustrated by the Italians who parlayed their own civil war into the Black Wars of the 80s and 90s, in addition to the “thug life”/gangster state of mind.
Ironically, it was these same Italians and their cooperating associates who were reincarnated into the ghetto as crack babies and gangbanger thugs for this event.
There is justice in the universe.
The Holocaust was a clue the Gods utilize scapegoatting as a strategy.
Why did the Gods punish the Jews with the Holocaust? Was it for the destruction of cultures which Christianity caused? Perhaps they corruptted the Jews “after the fact”, telling 19th/early 20th century Jews that Jesus “earned” for the Jews by preying upon the Europeans and other cultures which the missionaries destroyed? The German destruction of European churches/cathederals during WWII is a clue. Note::::Although an Axis power, the Gods wanted to keep the Catholic stronghold in Italy, ensuring they could use this tool against them for many years to come.
Similar to the United States, recently illustrated by the deposition of Saddam Hussein, the Jews too are preditors.
Even the Old Testiment is not to be taken literally, but the Gods do offer clues throughout to help the disfavored:::The apple is a tool of temptation used to corrupt Adam and Eve and cast them out of the Garden of Eden.
There is another lesson to be learned from this passage, and it is quite similar to the vailing issue and the discourse over women’s attire which ultimately died in the 70s:::Women are responsible for and control the fate of mankind.
The masculinization of women expierienced in the last few decades should cause despondancy and desperation:::It illustrates the deterioration of mankind’s collective favor and is a clue the Gods are preparing for some event.
Think about what I say. Consider what I teach.
When I am no longer here or no longer teach the Gods ARE NOT going to share with you.
Even if you doubt now you need to remember the principles that I teach because the Gods ARE NOT going to be generous with the disfavored. Society is going to become disturbingly ugly as we approach the Apocalypse, and you are going to be on your own.
I do not know when this will occurr, but it is the God’s way to grant some time after this event before they end on Planet Earth.
Pray daily. Think appropriately. Too many are confident, unaware of the God’s awesome powers or their status as antients. Others may fall prey to their positioning.
Be humbled, God-fearing and beware of the God’s temptations, for everyone is tested to evaluate their worthiness.
The price of obsession.
September 11th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
what are the menubar icons you have?
January 3rd, 2010 at 5:21 pm
EPIC Jeebus post, FTW.
Sooooo funny. Fur die lulz.
So this nutbag is actually serious, I googled and they’ve reposted their too-long-didn’t-read jibber jabber on a ton of blogs from hiphop to civil liberties… a verbatim search of the first paragraph on google shows over 7,710 results. So this is the work of a bot, reposting this tripe a buhjillion times until everyone in the world is as crazy as them. Remove the post, ban their IP.
March 21st, 2010 at 9:03 pm
I just change the PLIST file that tells where the icons go.
April 14th, 2010 at 10:34 pm
Perhaps this would be useful? Just add the apps you want to the list, using the app name as displayed in the dock. As your delays were multiples of 2, we’ll just loop until we have notification that the application is launched, so hopefully you can just add apps and not have to test timings. The program won’t proceed until it needs to.
Admittedly this is a quickie, but it seems to be working nicely for me in testing.
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set myFavoriteApps to {”Tweetie”, “Google Notifier”, “Mailplane”, “Adium”} as list
repeat with oneApp in myFavoriteApps
tell application oneApp to activate
tell application “System Events”
repeat while ((displayed name of processes) does not contain oneApp)
delay 2
end repeat
end tell
end repeat
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