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So is there any good (hopefully free/open) third-party solution to bring it back to the menu bar on the mac?

by johansch 10y ago

akvadrako 10y ago
Sure, iStat Menus is great.
- mwfj 10y ago
  It's also $18 and closed-source. You might have wanted to disclose that since I mentioned free/open. Just saying.
- jdcarter 10y ago
  Seconded on iStat Menus. Despite its cost, it shows a ton of useful statistics, including moving graphs of CPU activity, network IO, storage IO, etc.. It's easy to customize the display so you see just what you care about.
msrpotus 10y ago
I've been using Battery Time Remaining for a while and it has some useful features that even the old indicator didn't have (for instance, which apps are draining the battery the most). https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/battery-time-remaining/id551420833?mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/battery-time-remaining/id551...
- johansch 10y ago
  Looks nice. It does feel painful to give Apple 30% of $0.99 (US) in this instance.
  - DavideNL 10y ago
    You can also get it for free (and the source) on Github.. https://github.com/codler/Battery-Time-Remaining https://github.com/codler/Battery-Time-Remaining PS. i especially like the notifications you can set at 100%, 15%, 5% etc battery life. very handy!
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    - johansch 10y ago
      There are binaries here: (I haven't tested them.) http://yap.nu/battery-time-remaining/ http://yap.nu/battery-time-remaining/
M4v3R 10y ago
Battery Health from Mac App Store is very nice, shows a lot of information: http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple20/v4/db/ec/d0/dbecd0c9-87e9-4455-1890-5345805343f8/screen800x500.jpeg http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple20/v4/db/ec/d0/dbecd0c9-...
- johansch 10y ago
  This looks questionable. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battery-health-monitor-battery/id490192174?mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battery-health-monitor-batte... Not a single of the word "menu" in the description page, even. And the UI is kinda..all-over-the-place, to be honest.

So is there any good (hopefully free/open) third-party solution to bring it back to the menu bar on the mac?

akvadrako 10y ago

Sure, iStat Menus is great.

mwfj 10y ago
It's also $18 and closed-source. You might have wanted to disclose that since I mentioned free/open. Just saying.
jdcarter 10y ago
Seconded on iStat Menus. Despite its cost, it shows a ton of useful statistics, including moving graphs of CPU activity, network IO, storage IO, etc.. It's easy to customize the display so you see just what you care about.

msrpotus 10y ago

I've been using Battery Time Remaining for a while and it has some useful features that even the old indicator didn't have (for instance, which apps are draining the battery the most). https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/battery-time-remaining/id551420833?mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/battery-time-remaining/id551...

johansch 10y ago
Looks nice. It does feel painful to give Apple 30% of $0.99 (US) in this instance.
- DavideNL 10y ago
  You can also get it for free (and the source) on Github.. https://github.com/codler/Battery-Time-Remaining https://github.com/codler/Battery-Time-Remaining PS. i especially like the notifications you can set at 100%, 15%, 5% etc battery life. very handy!
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  - johansch 10y ago
    There are binaries here: (I haven't tested them.) http://yap.nu/battery-time-remaining/ http://yap.nu/battery-time-remaining/

M4v3R 10y ago

Battery Health from Mac App Store is very nice, shows a lot of information: http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple20/v4/db/ec/d0/dbecd0c9-87e9-4455-1890-5345805343f8/screen800x500.jpeg http://a3.mzstatic.com/us/r30/Purple20/v4/db/ec/d0/dbecd0c9-...

johansch 10y ago
This looks questionable. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battery-health-monitor-battery/id490192174?mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/battery-health-monitor-batte... Not a single of the word "menu" in the description page, even. And the UI is kinda..all-over-the-place, to be honest.