Does this scenario sound intimate ? You sit down down , plug in your PowerBook , iBook , or MacBook Pro , and then work off , figuring your laptop computer battery is charging all the while . Later you unplug your laptop to “ go nomadic , ” only to have its battery dice after a few minutes . Turns out that your laptop ’s power cable did n’t have a good connection , or that at some point during charging , it got take out out just enough to stop provide power .
I do n’t know about you , but over the twelvemonth this has happened to me many , many fourth dimension ; it most frequently materialize when someone accidentally get out on ( or trip on ) the major power cable , partially disconnect it . It was especially an subject with pre - MagSafe adapters , which tended to slide outjustenough to be inefficient while stilllookinglike they were secure in , but a identification number of MacBook Pro owners have report that even the new MagSafe connector can easily come unplugged — in fact , it was designed to do just that .
Michele Balistreri ’s freeUnplugged 1.3 ( ) is a wide-eyed utility that work this ( true minor ) issue : When running , it pops up a notice whenever there ’s a change in your laptop ’s power source .
Plug your PowerBook in to accuse it ? You get confirmation that it ’s really plugged in . circumstantially deplumate out the power cable ? Unplugged lets you make out . If you ’re hightail it Growl , Unplugged will even utilize Growl notification boxes . And it uses a miniscule amount of RAM and central processing unit resources .
Some might detect Unplugged to be intrusive , but it ’s precisely what I want — something that lets me jazz if my laptop is join to AC power , thrust me to compensate care to that notification .
Unnecessary ? Perhaps . Useful ? Definitely .
Unplugged is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 ( Tiger . )
