simplePower – Watch your battery on mobile macs
Being a proud owner of a MacBook Pro I’m often pretty excited to see how long my battery lasts. Sometimes it’s just incredible what I can do without even thinking about an outlet at all!
But there are days I am surprised by something very different: Where has my remaining time gone? How is it possible my battery has just gone empty?!
Some applications running in the background, USB-Devices loading theirs batteries (iPhone 
) and several other things do their job to surprise my with this gentle message reading “Your battery is nearly empty.”.
Well, having situations like these in mind I developed a solution for me: simplePower. A small and lightweight Menubarapplication, that shows how much energy my Mac is consuming right now.
But that’s not all. Since there is a SSD in my MacBook running at incredible speed, I swapped my Superdrive with a 2nd harddrive, in order not to loose too much space. The only problem is I never know whether this hdd is running or not, apart from putting my ear onto the MacBook and testing it. But I want to know this!
This is why simplePower show the status of all internal hdds, if more than 1 hdd is detected. Thus, you can watch all your hdds at once!
The display is as following:
(X mAh): If X is greater than 0, your battery is charging. Otherwise your MacBook is running on battery. When your battery is fully loaded, this is not shown.
HDD-Status:
0 – HDD is sleeping and doesn’t consume any power
1 – HDD is idle. It will go to sleep shortly, if it’s not accessed.
2 – HDD is running and consuming power.
HDDs are sorted as they are connected to the logic board. (This is the same order as in Systemprofiler.app)
If you have any comments or ideas, let me please know in the comments of this post!
You can find the download right here: simplePower (Tested under Snow Leopard, but I see no reason it should not work under 10.5)
GermanTags: batterie menüleiste, batterie tool, batterie überwachen, battery menubar, battery utility, battery watch, simplePower
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