Comments on: Freeware of the Moment- BatteryBar for Windows http://gigaom.com/mobile/freeware-of-the-moment-batterybar-for-windows/ Sun, 27 May 2012 02:10:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Alan Edwards http://gigaom.com/mobile/freeware-of-the-moment-batterybar-for-windows/#comment-412377 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:25:59 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=28796#comment-412377 Thanks for the pointer to this, very useful.

Really shows up how much power my old HP NC8000 uses compared to the 2133 – 17w compared to 1.2w.

It seems to have got the measure of the NC8000 straight away, hopefully it’ll settle down on the 2133 soon. The runtime is currently showing under an hour on the 2133 where Windows reckons 2 hours.

Most concerning is that it reckons the 2133 has 3% battery wear already, and it’s only a few months old. The two year old, cheap Chinese battery in the NC8000 is still at 0%.

Alan.

]]> By: Joe http://gigaom.com/mobile/freeware-of-the-moment-batterybar-for-windows/#comment-412376 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 06:53:09 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=28796#comment-412376 Yeah, I think the problem though is that for now at least, maybe until a few cycles of running it down and then charging again, that it appears to be a little confused by having two batteries.

And I hope its a little off on my battery wear numbers. I’ve had my XT and the primary battery since October. It started at the time of my first post at 17% battery wear. I’ve had my battery slice since Friday, it started at 0% wear. As of right now, its now showing 22.8% battery wear for the primary battery and 3% for the battery slice.

]]> By: Chris Thompson http://gigaom.com/mobile/freeware-of-the-moment-batterybar-for-windows/#comment-412375 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:12:09 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=28796#comment-412375 Joe, as you run your battery down it should become more precise.

BatteryBar uses historical data to determine life remaining on your battery. As you use your battery it will become more accurate; far more accurate than Windows (which just uses instantaneous data to determine time remaining).

]]> By: Oliver http://gigaom.com/mobile/freeware-of-the-moment-batterybar-for-windows/#comment-412374 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:18:29 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=28796#comment-412374 I use the Lenovo meter on my Thinkpad. And, sadly, it usually has a difference in opinion with the Windows meter. So if I now add this one, will I get three different readings? ;)

]]> By: Dawid Gatti http://gigaom.com/mobile/freeware-of-the-moment-batterybar-for-windows/#comment-412373 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:30:28 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=28796#comment-412373 cool app :) nice simple and clean.

]]> By: Joe http://gigaom.com/mobile/freeware-of-the-moment-batterybar-for-windows/#comment-412372 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:21:55 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=28796#comment-412372 I don’t know, it’s telling me 46 minutes, when Windows is telling me 6 hours and 30 minutes on my Dell XT with the battery slice attached. Maybe it’ll get more accurate though.

It looks like the Pro version is also necessary in order to switch power modes by a right click.

]]> By: Sam http://gigaom.com/mobile/freeware-of-the-moment-batterybar-for-windows/#comment-412371 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:42:17 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=28796#comment-412371 James, I can highly recommend BattStat as my freeware of the moment
http://users.rcn.com/tmtalpey/BattStat/

apparently it was Kevin’s freeware of the moment back in ’07
http://jkontherun.com/2007/11/30/battstat-a-free/

]]> By: Jake http://gigaom.com/mobile/freeware-of-the-moment-batterybar-for-windows/#comment-412370 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:50:21 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=28796#comment-412370 I believe it requires .Net 2.0 but everyone should have that by now. It will run automatically on Vista with later versions of .Net.

]]> By: TurtleWhisperer http://gigaom.com/mobile/freeware-of-the-moment-batterybar-for-windows/#comment-412369 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:35:32 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=28796#comment-412369 is this the 1 that requires .Net Framework?

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