MyBattery is a utility program designed specifically for portable Macintosh computers. MyBattery provides you with information about the battery on a Macintosh Portable, Macintosh PowerBook, or Macintosh Duo. It offers the following features:
⢠Displays current battery voltage in both numeric and graphical format,
⢠User-selectable displays, including gas gauge, bar graph, or line plot,
⢠Estimate of useful battery time remaining, using a historical estimation technique to âlearnâ your battery usage patterns,
⢠Support for multiple batteries, accommodating different capacity batteries,
⢠Menu bar displays, for easy viewing of battery status,
⢠Current CPU speed display,
⢠Battery charger status.
MyBatteryâs most popular feature is its ability to estimate how much battery time you have left. Using a historical estimation technique, MyBattery monitors your PowerBook usage, and updates its estimates accordingly.
MyBattery is shareware!
MyBattery is a shareware product. If you find it useful, please consider paying the shareware registration fee. Not only will you help to support my efforts, but by becoming a registered user, I will provide you with a secret password that will fully activate all of MyBattery's advanced features. Please see the "Registration form" chapter in this manual for more information.
Why register?
While your unregistered copy is fully functional, some of the more advanced features are only available in registered copies:
⢠Access to the Preferences dialog,
⢠Historical estimation function, so that the remaining time estimates "learn" from your PowerBook,
⢠Support for multiple batteries,
⢠Ability to bring display the column graph and line plot displays,
⢠Ability to customize battery names,
⢠Menu bar displays,
⢠Email notification of future releases.
Features that are only available in registered copies are marked as such in the manual.
