Turn On iTunes 11's Missing "File Edit View..." Menu Bar

TL:DR - Hold Alt > View > Show Menu Bar (Or press Ctrl + B)

If you've updated to the new iTunes 11 and have noticed some of the useful items missing then you're not alone.

After updating I wanted to simply select "File > Add Folder to Library..." which is how I normally add albums to iTunes. The only problem was that there seemingly was no "File" menu to speak of. It just wasn't there.

After hitting a few modifier keys to try to find the menu I stumbled upon holding down "Alt" (I'm on a Windows 7 PC) which temporarily showed the "File" "Edit" "View" etc. Menu Bar.

Holding "Alt" Brings Up The iTunes 11 Menu Bar 

This was helpful but the fact that something as useful as a "File" menu is hidden by default is very bad design in my opinion. We're all used to "File" and "Edit" menus and we can often get lost when we can't find them or even worse think features (like "Add Folder to Library...") have been removed.

If you like the iTunes Menu Bar to only appear when holding "Alt" then simply press ALT when you need to use it.

If, however, you are like me and want the Menu Bar to show up all the time you can select that option by:

• Holding down Alt to bring up the Menu Bar
• Selecting "View" from the Menu Bar
• Selecting "Show Menu Bar" (or press Ctrl + B)

The menu bar should now be visible without having to hold Alt.

Turning Menu Bar On: View > Show Menu Bar

Having to hold a somewhat obscure (or any) modifier key to access something as fundamental as the Menu Bar is really a UI fail in my book. If I hadn't stumbled upon it I would have simply assumed iTunes 11 didn't have a menu bar and therefore was less useful.

Having just started using it I can't say for sure whether iTunes 11 is a step in the right direction but I think hiding much-used and familiar features is not a good route to go.

How to Fix Youtube "This feature is currently not available in your country." Monetization Error.

So I went to monetize my personal YouTube account today only to be greeted with a strange "This feature is currently not available in your country. Learn more." error.

After searching google and the YouTube forums fruitlessly for a solution I think I finally found the reason why I was getting this error.

The possible solution was buried deep in a very unintuitive place inside of YouTube's settings. Read on past the jump for the solution.

What Do The Candy Stripe/Barber Pole Borders On Facebook's Timeline Mean?

New Facebook Timeline Striped Borders

I went onto my Facebook Timeline today and noticed a new (and very distracting) UI element. Apparently some of my Timeline posts have a new border that looks like a cross between an old Mac OS loading bar, caution tape, a candy cane and the stripes of a barber pole.

The funny thing was that it wasn't readily apparent what these new borders are supposed to indicate. Mousing over them gave no information. After puzzling over it for a while it seems that these borders may indicate a story that was added to my Timeline by an application (as opposed to me something to my Timeline "by hand").

UPDATE: As mentioned in the comments below these are likely messages/posts that are visible to you only. I checked a few of the privacy settings for some of these posts and they seem to all have been marked "Only Me". Mystery solved? Maybe.

Do you know what these mean? Is this the best way for Facebook to indicate posts added by other applications if indeed that is what they are?

Mostly it caused me a momentary bit of panic wondering if something was wrong with my Timeline. Usually those type of slanted stripes are reserved for things like caution tape. Usually they mean "warning".

You ideas?