MiniBatteryStatus monitors the amount of battery juice you have left for running your laptop. It monitors battery status, charge percentage and remaining battery life. Integrated with Growl to alert you when it’s time to recharge your battery. MiniBatteryStatus is a small Dashboard widget that monitors battery status, charge percentage and remaining battery life.
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Features:-
Growl integration. Be aware of what happens to your battery even when you’re not looking at Dashboard. MiniBatteryStatus tells you when it’s time to recharge your battery, when you’re 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 Pro’s
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
When you buy a laptop/notebook computer there is a free cd software you can install for monitoring the battery of the laptop/notebook computer. It’s good to have this minibattery reader coz you can actually reads if it ‘s time to charge or you can see the battery status….