Consolidating Menu Extras (a.k.a. Menulets) on menu bar?

There's a bunch of menulets that I use on a regular basis, but they're taking up too much of the menu bar. I know all about how to get rid of menulets, but that's not what I'm looking to do since I want to keep them all.
Does anyone know if there is any kind of software or OS hack that allows you to consolidate a whole bunch of menulets under a single menulet? A "menulet menulet" so to speak?
Thanks in advance.
D.

Not that I'm aware of. But you can reduce the space some of them take up by changing their settings. For example:
a. The User Account menu can be changed so that it only shows the Accounts icon and not the whole name of the user logged in (Sys Prefs-->Accounts-->Login Options).
b. Date/Time can be reduced to show just the time.
c. The battery menu on portables can be reduced to show only the battery icon and its' state.
Those are the only ones I know of so far.

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Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
Settings Screen Running Dev.png ‏86 KB
Settings Screen CTRL-m.png ‏84 KB
Setting Screen - Launch as SubVI.PNG ‏107 KB

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