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Welcome to Advisorator’s Tip of the Week, helping you learn something new from the tech world every Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use a Mac for long enough, and you’ll probably wind up with an overwhelming number of icons on your menu bar. Hidden Bar<\/a> elegantly solves the problem by providing a space to tuck away the menu bar icons you interact with the least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After installing the app, you’ll see a little left-facing arrow at the end of your menu bar. Click it so it points to the right, then hold \u2318<\/strong> while dragging unneeded icons to the left of the arrow. You can then click the arrow again to hide those icons away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The app’s Preferences menu also lets you automatically hide the icons after a set period of time. (Mac diehards may be familiar with a similar utility called Bartender<\/a>, but I don’t need its advanced features and am happy enough with Hidden Bar as a free alternative.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What about Windows?<\/strong> The Windows status bar already has its own overflow section, found by clicking the upward-facing arrow at the right side of the taskbar. Most apps appear in this overflow section by default, but you can easily drag apps in and out as needed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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