TUAW Tip: Managing Menulets
Menulets are those little menu bar widgets that reside in your menu bar to control such things as monitor resolutions, sound, Airport network selection, and iChat status. While there are ways to enable most of the menulets via System Preferences--for instance, you can enable the Display resolutions menulet from the Displays System Preference pane--there are several that are quite useful that don't have easy ways to get turned on. Two that come to mind immediately are the PPPoE menulet used for connecting/disconnecting to a PPPoE-based DSL service like Verizon, and the Eject menulet which allows you to open the tray or eject CD/DVD from your optical drive without having to use the keyboard's eject button.
Launching a menulet to enable it in the menubar is easy once you know where they are located. For both Panther and Tiger, Apple's system menulets are located in: System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras. Double clicking a menulet will enable it in the menu bar.
You can remove a menulet from the menu bar by holding down the Command (Apple) key and dragging the selected menulet off the menu bar. It disappears with a satisfying poof. You can also rearrange the Apple menulets using this same keyboard command and dragging them in the order you desire.
