This is a post about Apple’s sync menu bar item. Apparently it’s used for syncing mobile devices as well as for Apple’s MobileMe account (if you have one). It’s not really in the way, but it takes up space and I sometimes confuse it for a different menu bar item, so I wanted to delete it.

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, this post is not for you :)

Apparently, you can disable it in the preferences of MobileMe, but only when you have signed up for an account (if you search in System Preferences, the option shows up, but if you select it, you get a dialog that says you have to sign up first).

After some searching, I found this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1633095&tstart=0, that explains that you can ALSO disable it through preferences of the program iSync (I don’t know if it’s pre-installed, but it was on my computer).

A third option was to remove it by CMD+dragging it out of the menu bar, but it seems that is only temporary.

Yeah, more space in my menu bar for things that I actually use :)