Every now and again I run across a little tool that is just killer. Thanks to the nice folks at the Mac Attack I learned about Secondbar by Andreas Hegenberg.

I have had dual monitors on my Mac Pro since the upgrade from the old PowerMac and I am very used to the side by side displays. On the left is a Dell 24″ and on the right is an Apple 23″ Cinema Display. But when you deal with this much screen real estate, mousing over to one monitor to get to the menu bar while hardly traumatic is very mouse intensive. Hence Secondbar.

Secondbar is a very simple tool that creates a menubar at the top of the second display. That’s it. No rockets to Mars or quantum mechanics, just a second menu bar. I love focused answers to problems. Since any Mac Pro or Macintosh laptop can be connected to a second display via cable, and since you don’t have to mirror the displays, this is just incredibly useful.

Download Secondbar at http://blog.boastr.net/?page_id=79 The author and version number says that this is early code but you get used to it pretty quick and it’s such a timesaver that you cannot complain about free and working. Very cool.