Free macbooks software for mac

Each week for Sam Levin reveals the coolest add-ons, peripherals, gadgets that connect to a Mac.
From MacBooks to iPods. In less than five minutes, get your Mac fix!
Enhancements:
- Changed where file is hosted.

MiniBatteryStatus widget monitors battery status and charge percentage. It displays colorful information to quickly notice your battery conditions.
The widget assumes different colors depending on the remaining charge of the battery.
It is also aware of battery charging and plugged status. User can choose if the widget should display percentage, capacity (current/maximum), remaining time, and cycle count or just the charge gauge.
Main features:
- Growl integration. Be aware of what happens to your battery even when youre not looking at Dashboard. MiniBatteryStatus tells you when its time to recharge your battery, when youre done charging and when the power source has changed with Growl notifications.
- Universal Binary. You can run MiniBatteryStatus on both PowerPC iBooks and Powerbooks and Intel MacBooks and MacBook Pros.
- Lots of colors. Thanks to the revolutionary "arcoiris" engine, the widget color varies with continuity from green to red. Enjoy a plenty of awesome nuances from acid green to coral red.
- Small widget size to save Dashboard real estate. iBooks and powerbooks have limited desktop surface. Leave room to other cumbersome widgets, still monitoring your battery with style and no clutter.
- Rewritten from ground up. Completely event driven. Same data from the system status item, instantaneous notifications.
- Share battery data. The included battery data sharing service will make your battery remotely monitorable by MiniBatteryLogger. System administrators will be able to monitor the available energy supply of all laptops over the local network.
System requirements:
- A battery-powered Macintosh.

Enhancements
- Solved long term bug with time displayed not updated after the charge has ended.

XcreenKey Chameleon 1.6 is written to be a smart and flexible software keyboard which can be applied for MacOS Leopard or Tiger. This software keyboard is perfect for lazy bones who want to free one hand to hold their head in place or to hold a cup of nice coffee/coke... while sticking the other hand with the mouse This nice looking keyboard is also a must have collectable for you nice looking Mac.

Major Features:

1. Automatic Transparent Mode
2. User adjustable semi-transparent level
3. Switchable among 3 keypad modes
4. Multiple color: perfect match for Black/White MacBooks, iMac, iPods and now the new Aluminum Keyboard
5. Universal Binary

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.10, orMac OS X 10.5

32- or 64-bit Kernel Startup Mode Selector 1.4 is a very helpful program which 100% of all donations go to the relief project "India's Street Kids".

MacOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is 64-bit - or is it? Well, actually MacOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard is both 32-bit and 64-bit, and what that means for you depends on both your hardware and your settings.

Major Features:

1. Shows whether you have a 32-bit or a 64-bit processor
2. Shows whether you have a 32-bit or a 64-bit EFI
3. Shows whether the MacOS X Kernel is set to boot in 32-bit or in 64-bit mode
4. Shows whether the MacOS X Kernel is running in 32-bit or in 64-bit mode
5. Shows whether Apple officially supports booting a 64-bit kernel on your Mac
6. Allows you to select whether you want to start the MacOS X Kernel in 32-bit or in 64-bit mode (the setting might be ignored on MacBooks, depending on how Apple implements the restriction)
7. Accompanying webpage explains what the whole commotion about 32-bit and 64-bit in MacOS X Snow Leopard is about

Requirements:

• To check your configuration:
• • Intel Mac
  • MacOS X 10.4 Tiger or higher
• To set the kernel's startup mode:
• • Intel Mac
  • MacOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or higher
  • Admin rights (as a system file needs changing)

TheftSensor is a brand new application that makes it easy and fun to protect your MacBook. Simply press the play button on your Apple Remote and TheftSensor will be activated.
From now on, moving your Mac will trigger a loud alert.
Pressing the mute button wont help a potential thief as TheftSensor disables it. The same goes for closing the MacBooks lid: this will trigger the alert as well.

Of course, you can still use your MacBook without launching the alert: simply press the play button again to disable the alert.

Battery Drain is a free utility which allows users to charge or drain their batteries to a certain amount for long-term storage.

When storing lithium-ion batteries for an extended period of time, Apple recommends storing them with a 50% charge. Battery Drain allows you to set the charge amount and will automatically shut down the computer when the battery has reached the proper charge.

Battery Drain is very useful for administrators of large numbers of portable Macintosh computers, such as MacBooks and iBooks.