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Got a few icons in your Menu Bar and you’d like to change the order they’re displayed in? You’re in luck, they’re fairly easy to move around. Just hold your Command key and drag them into the order you prefer.

Want to get rid of an icon? Hold the Command key and drag it off the menu bar. Gone!

This method doesn’t work with the Apple icons, but not with all apps. Some exceptions to this method are Google Notifier, Tweeie, and Adium. To rearrange these, exit the apps and relaunch them in the order you’d like them to appear from right to left. If they are apps in your Startup Items, you can change the order they launch in to reorder them in the menu bar.

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I’ve never been a big fan of the Leopard 3D glass dock effect, preferring the 2D dock effect that you see if you place the dock on the sides of your screen. While I personally keep my dock on the left side of the screen, you can get the same 2D effect at the bottom of your screen using a fairly simple terminal command.

Just open your Terminal app (located in Applications:Utilities), then paste in the following command and hit enter:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

Your dock will exit and reopen in 2D mode, as shown in the image below.

To disable the 2D effect, simply paste the same command into Terminal, replacing “YES” with “NO”.

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