January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
804 pages
28h 40m
English
Content preview from Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, El Capitan Edition
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Menulets = Tray
Most Windows fans refer to the row of tiny status icons at the lower-right corner of the screen as the tray, even though Microsoft’s official term is the notification area. (Why use one syllable when eight will do?)
Macintosh folks wage a similar battle of terminology when it comes to the little menu-bar icons shown in Figure 1-4. Apple calls them Menu Extras, but Mac fans prefer to call them menulets.
Figure 1-4. These little guys are the cousins of the controls found in the Windows system tray.
In any case, these menu-bar icons are cousins of the Windows tray—each is both an indicator and a menu that provides direct access to certain settings. One menulet lets you adjust your Mac’s speaker volume, another shows you the remaining power in your laptop battery, and so on.
Making a menulet appear usually involves turning on a certain checkbox. These checkboxes lurk on the various panes of System Preferences (Chapter 17), which is the Mac equivalent of the Control Panel. (To open System Preferences, choose its name from the 
menu or click the gear icon on the Dock.)
Here’s a rundown of the most useful Apple menulets, complete with instructions on where to find the magic on/off checkbox for each.
Accessibility () offers on/off status indicators for features that are designed to ...
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