Menu bar icons get hidden by long menu bar items Sometimes on my Macbook Pro when I have a lot of icons in the menu bar, if I start an application which has a lot of menu items, some of these icons get automatically obscured by the menu items.

For example, when running iTunes, the Twitter icon gets obscured...



...but if I switch to Finder (which has a fewer menu items) the icon then re-appears



Is there any way I can show or get to these obscured icons without having to switch to an application with a shorter menu bar?
An app called AccessMenuBarApps allows you to do that by basically providing a keyboard shortcut to an application with no application menu items. It's free, so it wouldn't hurt to give it a try.