Battery Info Freeware?

[Amie]

coconutBattery
Developer: Christoph Sinai
Price: Free
File Size: 304k

coconutBattery is a tool that reads out the data of your notebook-battery (iBook/Powerbook). It gives you live feedback, what's going on in your battery (not only a snapshot like other tools).

It shows the current charge of your battery as well as the current maximum capacity related to its original. If coconutBattery detects that you have connected the wrong charger (i.e. an ibook-charger plugged in a powerbook) it will warn you! That's a cool feature!

Of course you are able to save the current maximum capacity of your battery - with just one click! coconutBattery uses Apple's new and really powerful technology named "CoreData" to realize that.

Finally coconutBattery calculates the age of your Mac exactly! So you can derive the age of your battery. And last but not least: coconutBattery is Universal Binary (you can run it on Intel-Macs! - cool!) and it is complete localizable!

Sounds great, no? Unfortunately, the system requirements is 10.4 or later. And I have 10.3.9. Anyone know of another freeware app for my OS that's just as good as coconutBattery? Or almost as good?

 

[fryke]

a link would've been nice. -> http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19085

 

[Giaguara]

xcharge http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15982
says 10.2 but works in 10.3 and 10.4
XBattery http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12649 (haven't tried this one)
iBatt http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22968

 

[powermac]

Cool little App. Coconut battery comes with a widget as well.

 

[Amie]

a link would've been nice. -> http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19085

What do you need a link for? I just copied and pasted everything for you. Saves you a click.

 

[Amie]

Cool little App. Coconut battery comes with a widget as well.

Yeah, thanks, but that doesn't help me.

 

[fryke]

for _downloading_ it, amie. you didn't post the binary, did you.

 

[Amie]

xcharge http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15982
says 10.2 but works in 10.3 and 10.4
XBattery http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12649 (haven't tried this one)
iBatt http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22968

Thanks for trying to help, but the first one doesn't look so good, and the other two are not freeware. Thanks, anyway.

 

[Amie]

for _downloading_ it, amie. you didn't post the binary, did you.

Fryke, what are you talking about? I copied and pasted the text description--all you need to know is right there in my original post. Now quite knit-picking and give me some valuable information.

 

[fryke]

amie: what i meant was only that if you post the readme of an interesting utility, that a link would've been helpful for readers of your thread. therefore, i posted the link that was missing. i apologise, if that seemed like nitpicking to you.

 

[Amie]

amie: what i meant was only that if you post the readme of an interesting utility, that a link would've been helpful for readers of your thread. therefore, i posted the link that was missing. i apologise, if that seemed like nitpicking to you.

You don't need to apologize, but thank you, anyway. You're very sweet.

I disagree, though. In this case, the link wasn't necessary. When it's necessary, I usually post the links. But, because I copied and pasted the text description and my original post was merely asking for similar apps with similar descriptions, that's all that was necessary.

 

[bobw]

Always nice to provide a link when you mention a program.

 

[Amie]

OK, OK ... sheesh!