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Battery Monitor 1.0
Battery Monitor - Record the performance of your battery more>>
Note that this tool does nothing magical. It simply records to a file what you can see when you use a stop watch and look at the battery indicator in the control strip or menu bar.
Since the values of every minute get recorded, you can use the output also to iport into a spreadsheet for making nice graphs. Its up to you to figure out how to do that.
SlimBatteryMonitor 1.5
SlimBatteryMonitor is created to be an elegant space-efficient replacement power gauge for your Mac OS X menu bar more>>
SlimBatteryMonitor 1.5 is created to be an elegant space-efficient replacement power gauge for your Mac OS X menu bar. It monitors both laptop batteries and many UPS batteries. You can select different views for when powered, charging or on battery... even instruct SlimBatteryMonitor to automatically hide itself in some circumstances (e.g. while fully charged).
A graphical icon shows the power remaining, and can be accompanied by a text description (battery charge in percent, or time remaining). Colours indicate whether the system is fully charged, charging or on battery. In some cases, SlimBatteryMonitor can be 70% slimmer than Apple's system meter... With SlimBatteryMonitor you'll have room for other important menu bar items.
Enhancements:
- 64/32 Universal binary supports 32 bit PowerPC Macs as well as 32/64 bit Intel-based macs
- Repairs horizontal image text display on Mac OS X 10.6 and later
- Adds arbitrary sliders to set warning panel and colour level
- Uses the Sparkle framework to automatically check for updates

Battery Health Monitor 1.4
Battery Health Monitor is created as a smart and useful utility for PowerBook, iBook, MacBook, and MacBook Pro owners that monitors virtually all battery health parameters and displays them in an easy-to-read format. more>> Battery Health Monitor 1.4 is created as a smart and useful utility for PowerBook, iBook, MacBook, and MacBook Pro owners that monitors virtually all battery health parameters and displays them in an easy-to-read format.
Enhancements: Updated to improve compatibility with Aluminum PowerBook G4 models.
Requirements:
- PowerBook G3 or later, or iBook;
- Requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
Battery Meter 2.5
A simple Yahoo! widget that shows the status of your battery more>> A simple Yahoo! widget that shows the status of your battery
Battery Meter is a very simple Yahoo! widget that will suit any sort of desktop layout. Ideal for tucking away in a corner.
System requirements:
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Enhancements
- Added customizable font
- New About image

Website monitor 1
Website monitor is a convenient program designed with the ability to perform the availability and response speed tests from different locations in US and Europe. more>>
Website monitor 1 is a convenient program designed with the ability to perform the availability and response speed tests from different locations in US and Europe. The Mac Snapshot widget provides real time view for the latest performance and status data. It allows watching performance per each monitoring location.
Memory Monitor 1.2.6
Memory Monitor - Displays a graph of memory usage in the Dock more>>
It is published under the GNU General Public License, and the source code is included in the download.
Enhancements:
- French localization now works for non-admin user accounts (fixed access rights for the french resource files).
iChat Monitor 3.4
iChat Monitor - Small window to monitor buddy status more>>
Enhancements:
- solved bug with "%" in place of "@".
- new preferences window.
- You can now define what service you want to watch (AIM,Jabber Bonjour).
BatchOutput Server Monitor 1.1.1
BatchOutput Server Monitor is considered to be a part of the BatchOutput Server Workflow, which gives you full control over monitoring all BatchOutput Server activity from their own stations. more>>
BatchOutput Server Monitor 1.1.1 is considered to be a part of the BatchOutput Server Workflow, which gives you full control over monitoring all BatchOutput Server activity from their own stations without the need to walk up to the server station.
Requirements: BatchOutput Server installation on the network
BatteryInfo 1.5
BatteryInfo - Replacement for the menu bar battery monitor more>>
It has the ability to display the percentage charge remaining. It can also display the time remaining on current charge, although this feature is somewhat ugly and needs beautifying, so if anyone has any suggestions for making it look better, mail me! It also fully supports dual-battery setups in Pismo laptops. If you have any comments, queries or suggestions, mail me at widgets@menial.co.uk.
This widget is more accurate than other copies out there are it pulls its information from the same place as the Apple menubar item. It also looks nicer IMO ;)
This widget is freeware, although donations to keep me in bandwidth are much appreciated. You can do this through the widget homepage.
Main features:
- Graphically display battery status
- Display the percentage charge remaining
- Display the time remaining on current charge
- Dual battery support
- Localized in multiple languages.
Enhancements:
- Fixed display of several languages which would not show accented characters
- Improved display of percentage battery charge
- Optimisations reducing widget size.
Net Monitor 2.3
Free Yahoo internet monitoring widget more>> Free Yahoo internet monitoring widget
This Yahoo! Net Monitor widget will show your current network traffic using WMI on Windows and netstat on Mac.
System requirements:
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Enhancements
- Removed extra Versioncheck.
App Monitor 1.0
App Monitor - watch the CPU usage of any process on your system more>>
It features an auto-scaling graphic window, it supports when the "monitored" software is quit and waits until it is launched again (developers know what I mean: compile, test, recompile, retest...).
Best of all, its free, hehe. It was one of my first Cocoa applications, so dont ask for too much, but feel free to mail me if you have suggestions and/or bugs to report.
Bee CPU Monitor 0.3
Shows CPU Usage (user, system, nice) in menu bar, launches Process Viewer more>> Shows CPU Usage (user, system, nice) in menu bar, launches Process Viewer.
Mac OS X 10.1 or later.
Battery Hen 1.01
Battery Hen - Widget that will display a hen showing battery usage by eggs more>> Battery Hen - Widget that will display a hen showing battery usage by eggs
Battery Hen is a free Mac Dashboard widget that will display a hen showing battery usage by eggs.Battery Hen comes in two varieties: caged and free range.
System requirements:
- eBook or PowerBook
iPodBatteryIndicator 1.1
iPodBatteryIndicator offers you an ability to change the iPod battery indicator. By default iPod displays a battery with some small tags. more>> iPodBatteryIndicator 1.1 offers you an ability to change the iPod battery indicator. By default iPod displays a battery with some small tags. You can change to a numeric representation from 0 to 999, giving a better understanding of battery status.
Requirements: Mac OS X, iPod.
MightyMonitor Widget 1.2
MightyMonitor Widget displays the battery status for the Apple Wireless Keyboard and the Wireless Mighty Mouse more>>
I kept hoping someone would develop something like this, and alas I got tired of waiting. This works on my system -- it may not on yours. It is pretty simple code.
It runs the following from the command line to get the battery status:
For the keyboard:
% ioreg -n "IOAppleBluetoothHIDDriver" | grep -i "batterypercent" | sed s/[^[:digit:]]//g
For the Mouse:
% ioreg -n "AppleBluetoothHIDMouse" | grep -i "batterypercent" | sed s/[^[:digit:]]//g
Enhancements:
- adds support for the old-style Apple Wireless Mouse (non-mighty).