Up the Cutefulness of Your Menubar Clock

I know, cutefulness isn’t an actual word. If you know a better way of saying cute and useful in a single word, I’m open to suggestions.

Linguistics aside, it’s (pun intended) time you replaced that rather plain clock in your Mac’s menu bar. Knowing the time is fine, knowing the day of the week is cool too, but why on earth doesn’t OS X’s menu bar clock display the date?

Before I go off on a rant, let’s just leave it at that and state the facts. If you want the date in the menu bar, you need some kind of addon. Enter MagiCal from Charcoal Design. How’s that for arcane software development company names.

Now, I have to admit I love all tiny things. I adore things that make the most use of tiny spaces, like a model train on the back of a coaster or a grain of wit inside a certain lame-duck president’s brain. That’s why I love MagiCal. It uses about as much space as the original Mac OS X menu bar clock uses to fit in the time, date and weekday. As if that wasn’t enough, MagiCal also adds a calendar at the click of the mouse and tons of options the tweak the clock to your heart’s content.

So, as much as it pains me, the default menu bar block will have to take a back seat to MagiCal on my machines, at least until the Steve decides to include the date.

Tagged as: magical, menu bar clock, menu bar utilities

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