Not a Fan of Big Sur’s Translucent Menu Bar? Here’s How to Disable It

In macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple went back to a design direction from the earliest days of Mac OS X: a translucent menu bar. Since its color changes depending on the desktop picture, many people aren’t enamored of it (left, below). Luckily, reverting to the traditional opaque menu bar is simple. Open System Preferences [...]

By |2021-05-04T08:47:09-04:00June 1st, 2021|Mac Tips|Comments Off on Not a Fan of Big Sur’s Translucent Menu Bar? Here’s How to Disable It
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Apple Hid the Proxy Icon in Big Sur’s Finder. Here’s How to Reveal It

This is a twofer tip. You may not have known that every document window in macOS has long had a proxy icon in the title bar, next to the filename. The proxy icon is not just cosmetic. You can drag it to Mail to attach the document to a message, to a Web browser [...]

By |2021-04-05T16:24:23-04:00May 25th, 2021|Mac Tips|Comments Off on Apple Hid the Proxy Icon in Big Sur’s Finder. Here’s How to Reveal It
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