S. -Oh, purists, you'll definitely love the fact that you can now (finally) turn off menu bar transparency.
For starters, Blur has a different 3G icon in the menu bar, and different icons for several apps -- Calendar leaps out to us here.
Time Machine: Adds a menu bar option for accessing Time Machine features (the menu extra can be enabled in Time Machine preferences), among other things.
Clicking off the main menu bar allows you to follow the path of da Vinci's work, from his earliest sketches to famous paintings and his scientific musings.
If you're not familiar with using the scripts menu, it lives at the upper right in the menu bar and contains lots of handy little widgets that help you automate and simplify processes.
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An icon at the rightmost side of the OS X Menu Bar lets you shove your entire workspace over to the left, making room for a running list of alerts you may have missed.
Over the next couple of years Apple introduced user-friendly computers with the Lisa-the first pc with a mouse and a menu bar-and the Macintosh, which was pitted as a human alternative to that mechanical juggernaut IBM.
One of the 3, 452 enhancements Meizu implemented is the "Smart Bar, " where Meizu has somehow merged the app's bottom menu bar and the system's virtual soft key bar for the sake of screen space and intuitiveness.
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In spite of its small iterative steps forward, Sense is now a user interface that's beginning to show its age, with oversized widgets that fail to make the best of the space available to them and that egregious omnipresent menu bar at the bottom that takes up far more space than a couple of links to your apps and phone ought to.
The bar menu is a bit limited, but snacks are artfully presented and taste as good as they look.
The American menu features elevated bar classics such as grilled mahi mahi sandwiches, Asian-style pork ribs and marinated steak tips.
Perrier is trying to be accommodating, keeping his restaurant open an extra hour, until midnight, and serving the full menu in the bar.
But when Krieger noticed that a photo he snapped of the bar menu has yet to receive any likes (with 177, 000 followers, the response is usually instantaneous), a MacBook Air, a Verizon Hotspot and a pile of iPhones materialize among the glasses of cask-finished bourbon.
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In recent years, the chameleon of snacks has evolved from movie-night standby (tossed simply with butter and salt) to bar-menu favorite (showered in truffle shavings, or bacon).
Fortunately for those who want simpler, and safer, choices, there's a menu in the adjacent bar, formerly named Betty's for the previous owner, Betty Egan, who hosted movie stars and royalty here several decades ago when it was Rancho Encantado.
Restaurants like R Bistro with its ever-changing seasonal menu, craft cocktail bar Ball and Biscuit, and the innovative Black Market, which serves beef tongue and burgers, are interspersed with boutiques and art galleries, offering an urban experience that rivals more tourist-heavy metropolitan areas like Los Angeles and Boston.
Scout out the bar or restaurant menu ahead of time and note your picks on your phone.
There's no menu, each of the bar staff holding the recipe to 680 cocktails in his head.
The navigation menu also has a few tweaks of its own: the top of the menu features a quick settings bar (nothing new there) and a second bar for settings shortcuts.
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Since its 2011 debut, Jasper's has won a following for its bar offerings, including a menu devoted exclusively to fries.
When Red Rooster opened a year ago, with its menu of reinvented American food, packed bar and diverse clientele, it put an imprimatur on a neighborhood in transition.
As apps move into every corner of business, the content of those businesses becomes like a menu in a restaurant (or wine bar, as the case may be).
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They do not actually have a menu but you can go to the bar and ask the friendly owner Arturo for a tobaciche (mescal made from a wild agave).
Two years on you can dine on fresh sea urchin roe and quivering tuna belly at the izakaya and sushi restaurant Kushi, and around the corner is the Passenger, an artisan cocktail bar that hosts private tasting menu events.
With up to 20 varieties flown in fresh daily, they have been doing oysters about as long as anyone, doing them perfectly, and in addition to raw bar they have a huge menu of every imaginable seafood dish, plus their rich and creamy signature oyster pan roasts, and a deep list of both famous and little known champagnes that go perfectly with oysters.
To prove the point, his previous London venture, Penny University, was a six-seat coffee bar that only served a changing menu of three different filter coffees.
Opened in December 2010 by Alexis Soler, No 308 hits the mark as a low-key bar with a high brow cocktail menu, with house made sodas and freshly made juices forming the backbone of their mixology staples.
Its international menu draws inspiration from the Mediterranean while the sushi bar is a nod to the Asian shores across the strait.
Software-wise, the Ultra uses a mostly vanilla Android 4.1 build, though Alcatel appears to have added a few tiny tweaks to it: the icons have a curvacious shape that brought back memories of MeeGo, and there's a quick settings bar along the top of the notification menu.
Absinthesalon, a Sydney small bar with only this mysterious spirit on its drinks menu, is one of a kind in Australia.
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