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- PBGadget version 0.9 fixes a bug where it reported Duo level battery voltages on
- some non-Duo powerbooks. Feature in version 0.8: an indicator bar of how much
- time is left until the disk spins down. My luck was that the disk would spin
- down just before I needed to do a save, so I wanted some sort of indicator.
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- PBGadget is a small application to help manage battery usage on Powerbook Duo's.
- It puts up a clock and battery voltage readout in the upper right corner of the
- screen. When the power supply is unplugged, the clock changes to a timer of how
- long the Duo has been running on battery power. A vertical bar on the left side
- of the time window indicates much time there is left until the disk spins down.
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- There are five cmdkey commands.
- p puts up a history Plot of the battery voltage.
- n spins the disk down Now.
- d reinitializes the disk spindown timer. (double clicking does the same)
- s puts the powerbook to Sleep.
- cmd-r Resets the history plot. (The history wraps after 8.5 hours.)
- cmd-w changes the cursor to a Watch
- (this prevents the processor from napping or auto-sleeping).
- cmd-c copies the battery voltage history as text to the clipboard.
- cmd-q quits.
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- For Duo's, at the bottom of the plot there is extended power manager status,
- battery pack voltage (old & new) , battery power draw in Watts, battery pack
- temperature and duo internal temperature in degrees C, backlight brightness, LCD
- contrast and processor speed information. Hold down the mouse button to also
- get the battery pack serial number.
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- Copyright 1993 Ronald H. Nicholson, Jr. distributed as Freeware.
- Please send bug reports to rhn@netcom.com
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