coconutBattery isn’t just a tool which shows you only the current charge of your HP Pavilion ZV5000 battery – it also shows you the current maximum capacity of it in relation to the original capacity your SONY VGP-BPL5A battery had as it left the factory.
You also get information about the battery-loadcycles (how often did you fully load your Dell LATITUDE C800 battery), the current charger (coconutBattery even warns you if you plugged in a wrong charger for your Notebook) and last but not least information about the age of your Mac vgp-bps8.

coconutBattery gives you all these information just in time because of it’s live-feedback interface!

Of course you are able to save the current maximum capacity of your Sony vgp-bps9 battery – with just one click! coconutBattery uses Apple’s new and really powerful technology named “CoreData” to realize this comfortable saving option.

And last but not least: coconutBattery is Universal Binary (you can run it on Intel-Macs!)

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(849KB; Required: MacOS X 10.4.5+)

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Original Post:

http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/

http://www.brand-new-battery.com/blog/articles/coconutbattery-for-laptop.htm

The award winning Aerofoil has now been updated to 1.5.1!

Aerofoil extends Vista and Windows 7 notebook battery life by:

• Allowing you to manually disable Aero Glass.
• Optionally managing Aero Glass user interface.
• Optionally managing sound muting.
• Optionally managing your chosen power plans.
• Optionally managing Windows Sidebar.
• Optionally showing a quick hibernate button.
• Changing icon colour to show whether on battery or AC.

Benefits over earlier versions and similar software:

• Much more efficient – Aerofoil is 100% unmanaged C++ (no .Net Framework!).
• Available in both 64 bit (x64) and regular 32 bit (x86) builds.
• Much smaller memory use (about 25%-30% of the size of similar software).
• Unlike other apps, Aerofoil doesn’t poll battery level continuously allowing the CPU save power by being idle more often.
• No configuration file – everything is customised with the installer.
• Open source and free – no expiry date, adware, spyware or malware, download and compile it for yourself if you prefer*!

What reviewers of Aerofoil have had to say:

“Aerofoil Extends Your Battery Life Approximately 25%”, “you really should download”
(netbooknews.com) Disclaimer: Aerofoil’s author’s (my) personal best has been (only) 10-15%, or ~10 minutes, on a 2 hour battery 17 inch HP notebook (DV9233EU) with power saver mode using the lowest screen brightness.

“This is definitely a worth-while little app for road warriors”
(Metro Area Personal Computer Club, Iowa, USA)

“great for gaming and notebook applications alike”
(Official Windows Magazine – 47th of top 100, 37th of top 40 Hot Apps / TechRadar)

“Aerofoil, though, is far, far smaller and more efficient”
(Dave Johnson, Bnet)

The great advantage of AeroFoil is little resource consumption….. works perfectly with Windows 7″
(Kavya, Techno360)

“a must for every Vista laptop user.”
(Wim Van Acoleyen, ZDNet)

“Great utility for gamers and laptop users.”
(The Glitch)

“simple yet amazingly effective software that the corporate bigwigs couldn’t figure out”
(Umar, Techtites)

Changes in 1.5.1:

• Available as a 64 bit (x64) executable.
• Source code updated for the wxWidgets 2.9.0 framework.
• Project updated for Visual Studio 2010.
• Multibyte strings have been removed in favour of Unicode.
• UPX compression has been removed due to lack of a 64 bit Windows packer (memory usage remains the same).

Downloads (please read the important note below too):

Download Aerofoil 1.5.1 (64 bit) Installer
Download Aerofoil 1.5.1 (32 bit) Installer

Download Aerofoil 1.5.1 (64 bit) Source Code (C++)*
Download Aerofoil 1.5.1 (32 bit) Source Code (C++)*

IMPORTANT: If you receive an error message regarding the msvcp100.dll being missing you may also need a Windows update – the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable. You can get this from Microsoft – links below – please choose the correct version:

Redistributable for 64 bit (x64)
Redistributable for 32 bit (x86)

* The source code has dependencies on the wxWidgets framework (2.9.0) and the project is for Visual Studio 2010. For 64 bit compilation wxWidgets will also need building with the WIN64 flag (instead of WIN32) and the project build platform targets set to x64. Additionally an environment variable $(WindowsSdkDirx64) needs to point to the relevant Windows 7.1 SDK. 

The original Article by:  http://silentdevelopment.blogspot.com

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• Graphically see the charge / discharge rate
• Diagnose problem battery cells with detailed statistics
• Compare and measure your batteries’ performance with expected discharge rates
• See the critical discharge point for your batteries
• Uniquely identify battery packs for tracking purposes or system inventories
• Log the performance of a battery for later reference
• See the status of each individual battery pack, when multiple batteries are in use

 Batteries, given their chemical nature, are prone to wear, corrosion, leakage and outright failure due to events like short circuits and lightning strikes. Given their propensity to fail and to have decreased performance over time, it is important to be able to identify and monitor their performance. With BatteryMon, monitoring the state of your laptop battery or UPS has never been easier. BatteryMon has the following features:

• Battery charge level is graphed in real time, along with an extrapolated trend line and comparison trend line.
• A log file is maintained of the battery charge level and other statistics for later analysis.
• Configurable sample period.
• A comprehensive help file.
• Detailed system and status information about each battery installed (see below).
• An interface to BurnInTest in order to evaluate battery performance, while under load.
• Mini window mode that shows multiple batteries charging/discharging status as well as life percentage, estimated running time and more (with adjustable transparency for Windows 2000 and later).

Typical users include portable computer repair centers, system integrators, server administrators who must manage UPSes and, home users wanting to test their battery or UPS.

Compatibility

Any laptop battery or UPS that complies with the Windows, Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) specification should be able to report information to BatteryMon. Note that only Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP support this interface. Windows95 and NT are not supported. Older PCs may also have a problem if their BIOS does not support ACPI. Some features may not be supported by some battery types, typically they will report only partial information in this case. It has been also been noted that several UPS manufacturers are not providing compliant device drivers.

Status Information

The following information is provided for each installed battery (when available, as not all batteries will support all of these features).

• Status: Indicates the current status of this particular battery. e.g., “Charging”, “Discharging”, “Not in use”.
• Manufacturer: The name of the company that manufactures the battery pack.
• Device Name: This is usually the model number of the battery pack, as defined by the manufacturer.
• Serial number: The serial number of the device as defined by the manufacturer.
• Unique ID: An identification string, which is unique across all battery packs.
• Time remaining: A rough estimate of how much time remains before the battery is fully discharged.
• Battery Temperature: The temperature inside the battery pack.
• Date of manufacture: The date when the battery was manufactured.
• Type of use: Indicates if the batteries normal use is to provide power for normal operations or if the battery is a fail safe / backup device. (Laptop battery or UPS)
• Rechargeable: Indicates if the battery is rechargeable or not.
• Chemistry: The type of battery. Typical values are: Lead Acid, Lithium Ion, Nickel Cadmium, Nickel Metal Hydride, Nickel Zinc, Rechargeable Alkaline-Manganese.
• Design capacity: The theoretical capacity of the battery when new. Measured in milliwatts hours (mWh) for most batteries.
• Full charge capacity: The battery’s current fully charged capacity. In some batteries it is possible to compare this value to the designed capacity to estimate the battery’s wear.
• Alert levels: The manufacturer’s suggestion of when a “Low” and “Warning” battery alert should occur.
• Bias: Some batteries reserve a small charge that is biased out of the battery’s Full Charge Capacity and Current Capacity values to show “0″ as the critical battery level. Critical bias is analogous to setting a fuel gauge to show “empty” when there are several liters of fuel left.
• Charge cycles: The count of the number of charge/discharge cycles the battery has experienced. This provides a means to determine the battery’s wear.
• Voltage: The current battery voltage in Volts across the battery terminals.
• Charge Rate: The current rate of battery charge or discharge. For most batteries this value will be in mWh.

the home sell page is: http://www.passmark.com/products/batmon.htm

Versions:
V2.1 build 1004

Latest release date:
4 September 2008

Price:
Free 30 day evaluation, then US$24.00 to purchase.
(See sales page for more pricing details)

Platforms:
Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista.
(95 and NT are not supported)

Requirements:
32 MB RAM, 1 MB of hard disk space, compatible battery or UPS.

also you can down the software from: http://www.downarchive.com/software/aio/7380-passmark-complete-aio-9-in-1.html

BatteryBar is a simple, straight-forward, battery meter that monitors the status of your battery and displays your battery’s status in the taskbar.

BatteryBar constantly monitors the status of your battery as you use your laptop. As it monitors your battery, it keeps historical data on your battery and provide you with a very accurate estimate of how much time is remaining on your battery.While discharging, BatteryBar shows the percentage as a horizontal bar, colored green above 35%, yellow between 20% and 35%, and red below 20%. It shows the time remaining in hours and minutes. While charging, BatteryBar is blue to indicate charging, and displays the amount of time left until the battery is fully charged.

BatteryBar is free. Additional features are unlocked when you upgrade to BatteryBar Pro.

After installing BatteryBar, you can upgrade at anytime to BatteryBar Pro. After your purchase you will be given a license key that will unlock all the features of the Pro version without installing any new software.

Learn more about BatteryBar Pro

Features available in BatteryBar Free

Statistical Time Prediction

This is the most important feature of BatteryBar.

BatteryBar keeps historial data on your batteries as you use your laptop. That information is used to calculate a very accurate estimate of the time remaining on your laptop.

Windows reports a time remaining that’s very simple and fluctuates wildly from moment to moment.

Status popup show detailed information
about your battery’s status

Discharging

When you’re running on battery, BatteryBar shows the percentage bar in green, yellow, or red, depending on how much battery power is remaining. The bar displays the time left on your battery in Hours:Minutes

Battery is discharging with 2 hours, 46 minutes of battery life remaining.

Charging

When charging, the percentage bar is shown in blue to indicate charging, and the estimated time to full charge is shown. The bar turns black and shows “On A/C” when fully charged.

Battery is charging with 46 minutes until the battery is fully charged.

Other Features

• Vista style – The toolbar is using the same look and feel as the Vista taskbar buttons
• Statistical time prediction – BatteryBar monitors your battery and keeps a history of how long it takes for your battery to charge and discharges. That information is used to more accurately predict the life of your battery
• Translations – BatteryBar fully or partially supports 13 languages. Anyone may volunteer to translate BatteryBar to additional languages
• Detailed Battery Info – BatteryBar is now capable of collecting detailed information about your battery, including max capacity (mW), current capacity (mW), charge rate (mW), discharge rate (mW), and more.
• Automatic Update – BatteryBar will check for new versions at startup and automatically download the new version

Features in the Pro version

• Customizable themes to change the look and feel of BatteryBar
• Low battery and critical battery notifications and audio alerts
• Customize 20 settings, including changing the font, low battery warning levels, and more.
• Change the current Windows power scheme by right-clicking on BatteryBar
• New features in future versions that will only be available in the Pro version

Download

Current Stable Version: 3.1 build 60

 
BatteryBar Pro

Additional features in the Pro version

Low Battery Warning

BatteryBar monitors your battery life and when your battery power gets low, BatteryBar will notify you with a popup window and a sound. A second notification window appears when your battery reaches critical level.

A sample of the low battery warning popup

A sample of the critical battery warning popup

Customize Settings

BatteryBar Pro provides you with the ability to change 20 different settings so that you can customize BatteryBar to your own needs.

BatteryBar Pro Preferences window

Context Menu provides access to Preferences

Right click on BatteryBar to gain access to the Preferences window