Something kind of sad recently occurred to me. As you might be aware, I like watches. I wear a watch from the moment I wake up (ok, I technically put one on after I shower) to right before I go to sleep. I look at it regularly throughout the day. But, my watch isn?t the most important clock in my life. No, there is a clock that is intimately part of my daily rituals, I just didn?t know it.
Now, I wasn?t looking for what the most important clock in my life was, this discovery was an accident. Like when a wall clock in your apartment dies, you notice it then. It?s annoying, right" Or after daylight savings time, when your microwave is an hour off. But, how long does it take you to change that" Just looking around my apartment right now, my largest wall clock, a Seth Thomas from the late 1800s, isn?t even running. It never is. It can, but it needs some major service, so I keep it more as decor. It really ties the room together.
A 30-day School Clock by Seth Thomas

So, what happened was one day I was going through the system preferences on a relatively new MacBook Air, looking for the dock settings. The screen being on the smaller side, I decided I wanted it to auto-hide. Upon entering this menu, I saw a check box I had never seen before. ?Automatically hide and show the menu bar.? Has this always been there or is this a new feature" The idea was immediately appealing. Without a menu bar on top, and a dock on the bottom, my screen real estate would rea...