MacBook users…are you looking for a better solution that tells you everything you ever wanted to know about your battery, including its original capacity when it left the factory? Look no further. CoconutBattery is your answer.

What is coconutBattery, you ask? I’ll let its developers explain…

coconutBattery isn't just a tool which shows you only the current charge of your battery - it also shows you the current maximum capacity of it in relation to the original capacity your battery had as it left the factory.
You also get information about the battery-loadcycles (how often did you fully load your 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.

Sounds great. And it’s free! Though I do highly recommend generously donating money to the folks behind this software, if only a few bucks.

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Be still, my heart. Apple seems to have taken an usually long time baking this operating system release. Which means either this was a major development effort incorporating a slew of innovative new features, or merely a strategic ploy based on timing and opportunity. I hope it's the former and not the latter. So little of Leopard's features have been show publicly the OS remains shrouded in mystery? Will it live up to the hype, or lack thereof? The silence is deafening.

Source: ThinkSecret

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Nothing fills me with greater joy than watching one company pull the rug out from under its competitor the moment that adversary is about to step into the spotlight. That's exactly what Apple is about to do to Microsoft on the eve of Vista's launch. Now, keep in mind that Apple, or rather Steve Jobs, has stated publically that its next operating system (OSX Leopard) will ship sometime in the second quarter of next year. Microsoft meanwhile will ship Windows Vista to consumers in January. Well guess what? Apple is going to sucker punch Microsoft by launching OSX Leopard early in January at Macworld San Francisco. How do I know this? A few reasons.

• Steve Jobs loves to surprise the industry with his legendary "One more thing" product announcements. And nothing will give him greater pleasure than trumping Redmond by stealing publicity away from Microsoft with a surprise launch of Leopard.
• Apple is running out of dot releases. The latest system update to OSX Tiger is version 10.4.8. Now unless Apple plans on adding further incremental digits onto its builds, I don't see how they can protract one further dot release another 7-9 months.
  


• Apple has recently been turning up the heat on Mac developers in an attempt to cajole them into getting their apps released for Leopard at the earliest possible date. I've received two emails from Apple's Developer Connection program over the last couple weeks that boasted the benefits of supporting Leopard, and encouraging me to learn more about the new OS. This coincides with recent preview builds of Leopard to developers. Coincidence? Maybe.
  

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