Re: Battery Monitor Question
on 6/13/03 5:01 AM, K. at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hhhmmm. I never use the control strip...I am running 9.2.2 on the Pismo and have never even opened the control strip thingy...Don't know anything about it.. In fact that ext/control panel...whichever it is, is turned off. I will have to take a look at that sometime...I just want to be able to have an idea of how much power/time is left when on battery..I have never seen anything for that. Regards, Open the Date/Time Control Panel, then open the menubar clock preferences, and turn on the battery monitor setting. I don't run 9 anymore, so can't remember the exact terms, but I do know that the option to turn on the battery in the menubar is in the menubar clock part of the Date/Time control panel--go figure (actually, this is because the menubar clock is actually the code from a shareware app, SuperClock that Apple bought back in the days of OS 7.) -- -Jon Glass Krakow, Poland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Benjamin Franklin -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
RE: may I ask what OS ? as example OSX in energy saver has that feature and can be shown in upper border,either as time or percent,I have noticed it disappears in classic On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 08:31 PM, K. wrote: A quick one for the list Does anyone know if there is a program available that will show the power remaining when running a Pismo or other laptop on battery? I know that there is a feature in Norton Windows that does this because I have used it on a Thinkpad 560 but can't seem to find an equivalent pgm for Mac laptops.. Regards, Mike K -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 10:13 PM, James Rohde wrote: Mike, you didn't say what MacOS you're running, but if it's 9.x, there is a control strip module that I believe (from its info in the Finder) is installed with 9.2.1 (and later?) called Battery Monitor. This will show your battery life (approx.), and I think it is the source of my battery indicator icon in the right side of my menu (to the right of the date/time that the Date/Time control panel puts up there). Or were you looking for something else? the Control Strip has been in the Mac OS since the 7.x days. It originated on Powerbooks only, but later migrated to Desktop machines too. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
Thank you all for the helpful infoI will try to get a chance to look there sometime today. Driving to Boston (8hrs) tomorrow am for up to 2 weeks and have an inverter to use in the car... will be times it will be running straight battery. I am running 9.2.2 1GB Ram and 10GB HD...Just checked it and found it...Now how do I get it to appear in the upper right corner by the date/time thing? The entire control strip appears about 3/4 of the way down the left side of the screen.. Thanks and Regards to all, Mike K Jeremy Derr wrote: On Thursday, June 12, 2003, at 10:13 PM, James Rohde wrote: Mike, you didn't say what MacOS you're running, but if it's 9.x, there is a control strip module that I believe (from its info in the Finder) is installed with 9.2.1 (and later?) called Battery Monitor. This will show your battery life (approx.), and I think it is the source of my battery indicator icon in the right side of my menu (to the right of the date/time that the Date/Time control panel puts up there). Or were you looking for something else? the Control Strip has been in the Mac OS since the 7.x days. It originated on Powerbooks only, but later migrated to Desktop machines too. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
There's another option if you don't want to use the control strip. Go to the control panel which controls the menu bar clock (um... I forget which one it is. Date Time or maybe General Controls... it's been a long time since I used OS 9!). You can tell it to display your battery status next to the menu bar clock as well -- it shows a little icon with a small arrow next to the vertical position indicating battery charge -- top is full, bottom is empty. A lightening bolt indicates AC power. Dave -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
David Clark wrote: There's another option if you don't want to use the control strip. Go to the control panel which controls the menu bar clock (um... I forget which one it is. Date Time or maybe General Controls... it's been a long time since I used OS 9!). You can tell it to display your battery status next to the menu bar clock as well -- it shows a little icon with a small arrow next to the vertical position indicating battery charge -- top is full, bottom is empty. A lightening bolt indicates AC power. Dave Yo Dave, How's the rest of the band Wish you guys would get together again and turn out some more real good gut stompin' rock!!! : ) (Showing age!!!) Anyway...I did find the thingy in the date/time panel AFTER I turned off the display clock and opened the clock options panel...It is now showing AC because I just plugged it in to be sure it had a full charge... Thanks again to everyone that replied to the original question...I reallty appreciate the quickness and courteousness of the replies. My next project is to come up with the $$$ for a Big AL Regards to all, Mike K -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
Also thanks to Jon Glass. March March March Dombrowski...Poland is not yet forgotten... Regards, Mike K -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
My Reply follows quote. On 13/06/2003 08:02 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (K.) Thank you all for the helpful infoI will try to get a chance to look there sometime today. Driving to Boston (8hrs) tomorrow am for up to 2 weeks and have an inverter to use in the car... will be times it will be running straight battery. I am running 9.2.2 1GB Ram and 10GB HD...Just checked it and found it...Now how do I get it to appear in the upper right corner by the date/time thing? The entire control strip appears about 3/4 of the way down the left side of the screen.. If you don't like the position of the Control Strip on the screen, you can move it around by holding the OPTION key down, moving the mouse pointer over the tab and dragging it around. I find the most convenient place to be the lower left of the screen. When retracted it is out of the way of most things. Also, the F5 key is set as the default to hide/show the tab. Ken Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:01:49 -0400 From: K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Battery Monitor Question If you want a really quick check of the battery state press the little button on the battery itself and see how many LEDs light up. On my Lombard 4 LEDs is full charge. Even works if the battery is out of the computer. The button may not be included with aftermarket batteries but it was included on the Apple battery for my Wallstreet and my Lombard. -- Andrew King Ann Arbor Michigan technology is the answer, what was the question? NOTE: new local address is andrewaa(at)comcast.net -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
At 16:06 -0400 6/13/03, Andrew King wrote: Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:01:49 -0400 From: K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Battery Monitor Question If you want a really quick check of the battery state press the little button on the battery itself and see how many LEDs light up. On my Lombard 4 LEDs is full charge. Even works if the battery is out of the computer. The button may not be included with aftermarket batteries but it was included on the Apple battery for my Wallstreet and my Lombard. Yes, but I find this to be grossly inaccurate. Some batteries cannot hold a charge for long, the system doesn't handle the charge well anymore, etc. It would be best to just install the battery monitor into the menu bar. -- Ryan Coleman System Administrator LEMLists.com Get your email account at lemlists.com for $6/year! Visit http://www.lemlists.com/ for more information LEMLists.com is a CobWeb Publishing website. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 01:31 am, K. wrote: A quick one for the list Does anyone know if there is a program available that will show the power remaining when running a Pismo or other laptop on battery? I know that there is a feature in Norton Windows that does this because I have used it on a Thinkpad 560 but can't seem to find an equivalent pgm for Mac laptops.. so you are looking for something more than the battery monitor in the menu bar in OS9 or OSX? matt -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
I'm still not running X, but in 9 you can look at the battery icon in the control strip to get an estimate of how much time you have left. Kate A quick one for the list Does anyone know if there is a program available that will show the power remaining when running a Pismo or other laptop on battery? I know that there is a feature in Norton Windows that does this because I have used it on a Thinkpad 560 but can't seem to find an equivalent pgm for Mac laptops.. Regards, Mike K -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
My Reply follows quote. On 12/06/2003 17:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: A quick one for the list Does anyone know if there is a program available that will show the power remaining when running a Pismo or other laptop on battery? I know that there is a feature in Norton Windows that does this because I have used it on a Thinkpad 560 but can't seem to find an equivalent pgm for Mac laptops.. -- Huh? When I installed 9.1 on both a Wallstreet and a 1400, I got, by default, two indicators of remaining battey power. One on the Control Strip with a speedometer showing both how much remains and how fast you are using it. Another icon on the menu bar which drains down as battery power is consumed. It show a lighting bolt when plugged into the yo-yo. Isn't this feature part of the OS rather than the machine? Ken Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
on 12/06/03 20:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Reply follows quote. On 12/06/2003 17:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: A quick one for the list Does anyone know if there is a program available that will show the power remaining when running a Pismo or other laptop on battery? I know that there is a feature in Norton Windows that does this because I have used it on a Thinkpad 560 but can't seem to find an equivalent pgm for Mac laptops.. -- Huh? When I installed 9.1 on both a Wallstreet and a 1400, I got, by default, two indicators of remaining battey power. One on the Control Strip with a speedometer showing both how much remains and how fast you are using it. Another icon on the menu bar which drains down as battery power is consumed. It show a lighting bolt when plugged into the yo-yo. Isn't this feature part of the OS rather than the machine? Feature of the OS, but it's also there, in OS X. You have actually the ability to display the time or the percentage of power remaining, in addition to the battery icon showing the remaining charge in the menu bar. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe, trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -Rich Cook -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
Kathryn Odell wrote: I'm still not running X, but in 9 you can look at the battery icon in the control strip to get an estimate of how much time you have left. Kate hhhmmm. I never use the control strip...I am running 9.2.2 on the Pismo and have never even opened the control strip thingy...Don't know anything about it.. In fact that ext/control panel...whichever it is, is turned off. I will have to take a look at that sometime...I just want to be able to have an idea of how much power/time is left when on battery..I have never seen anything for that. Regards, Mike K -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Battery Monitor Question
Maybe you should use the control strip. David On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, K. wrote: hhhmmm. I never use the control strip...I am running 9.2.2 on the Pismo and have never even opened the control strip thingy...Don't know anything about it.. In fact that ext/control panel...whichever it is, is turned off. I will have to take a look at that sometime...I just want to be able to have an idea of how much power/time is left when on battery..I have never seen anything for that. Regards, Mike K -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
