A neat trick I learned from the Dec 2002 Mac Addict: in the Jaguar
(and now Panther) System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras folder,
there's an Eject.menu item; double-click it and a CD/DVD drive eject
icon appears on the menu bar.

It only works with internal drives, but I found on my older iBook,
that it worked much quicker and more reliably than the keyboard
button.

I installed it on my new slot-loading G4 iBook, then realized that it
really doesn't have anywhere near the usefulness with the slot-loading
drive.

Any ideas where it (along with the other menu bar add-ins) are loaded?
Double-clicking the Eject.menu item again doesn't unload it.

Thanks!

-- AZ

In article <8c7mqvk04jg2bl657aq3gl20uvp7rv1fhm@4ax.com>,
Alan Zisman <alan@nospam.zisman.ca> wrote:

> A neat trick I learned from the Dec 2002 Mac Addict: in the Jaguar
> (and now Panther) System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras folder,
> there's an Eject.menu item; double-click it and a CD/DVD drive eject
> icon appears on the menu bar.
>
> It only works with internal drives, but I found on my older iBook,
> that it worked much quicker and more reliably than the keyboard
> button.
>
> I installed it on my new slot-loading G4 iBook, then realized that it
> really doesn't have anywhere near the usefulness with the slot-loading
> drive.
>
> Any ideas where it (along with the other menu bar add-ins) are loaded?
> Double-clicking the Eject.menu item again doesn't unload it.

Just hold down the command key and drag it off the menubar. It will go
"poof."
--
Cheers,
_Chas_
http://www.apple.com/switch
non-spammers can write to chasm at mac (dot com)

On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 06:55:16 GMT, Charles Martin
<rubbish@bollocks.org> wrote:

>In article <8c7mqvk04jg2bl657aq3gl20uvp7rv1fhm@4ax.com>,
> Alan Zisman <alan@nospam.zisman.ca> wrote:
>
>> A neat trick I learned from the Dec 2002 Mac Addict: in the Jaguar
>> (and now Panther) System/Library/Core Services/Menu Extras folder,
>> there's an Eject.menu item; double-click it and a CD/DVD drive eject
>> icon appears on the menu bar.
>>
>> It only works with internal drives, but I found on my older iBook,
>> that it worked much quicker and more reliably than the keyboard
>> button.
>>
>> I installed it on my new slot-loading G4 iBook, then realized that it
>> really doesn't have anywhere near the usefulness with the slot-loading
>> drive.
>>
>> Any ideas where it (along with the other menu bar add-ins) are loaded?
>> Double-clicking the Eject.menu item again doesn't unload it.
>
>Just hold down the command key and drag it off the menubar. It will go
>"poof."

Ah yes... the command key.

Thanks! That did the trick.

-- AZ