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Using MAAttachedWindow with an NSStatusItem

I get asked how to do this disproportionately often, so I put together a sample project showing how you can have an NSStatusItem in the menubar which spawns an MAAttachedWindow instead of a menu (really, it’s ridiculously simple - no tricks involved). It looks like this:

Could be cool for status displays, alerts, or just having [...]

Hierarchical folders in the Leopard Dock with Quay

Still hate Stacks in the Leopard Dock? Rainer Brockerhoff has just released version 1.0 of Quay, his Leopard-or-later utility to give you back hierarchical browsing of folders in the Dock.
It uses no hacks or hidden features, and actually gives you a fair bit more functionality than Tiger’s Dock used to. €7 shareware (about $10).