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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)

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Some of you who using Mac OS X knowing this problem. If you download a file and after you want to open it, you get this warning: “xxx is an application downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to open it?”. It is annoying… And if you look into the system preferences, you don’t find any way to disable it. Possible it is, to disable the service self.

Here you must open the Terminal and enter the following command:

defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO

If you want to activate the service again, then enter the following one:

defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool YES

After you do this, reboot your mac and enjoy.

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Die wohl schönste Variante ein Programm vollständig, mit jeder dazugehörigen Datei, zu löschen heißt AppCleaner. Das Programm ist kostenlos und leicht zu bedienen. Einfach das Programm auswählen, auf Suchen klicken und schon werden einem alle Dateien zu einem Programm angezeigt. Zwar machen die Dateien den Mac nicht wirklich langsamer, aber Ordentlichkeit muss sein:). Viel Spaß beim Testen!

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Wer von euch den Safari nutzt und die Videos über HTML5 abspielen lässt, kann sich die Videos nicht im Vollbildmodus anzeigen lassen. Abhilfe schafft hier das WebKit. Es ist zum einen für Windows und natürlich auch für Mac OS erhältlich. Um nun den Vollbildmodus zu erhalten, zieht ihr das WebKit am besten in euren Programmordner und startet es statt dem “normalen” Safari.

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The easiest way to uninstall Glims is to use the uninstall program from the developer of glims, here can you find it.

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