Preston Gralla from PCWorld US marked Vista Battery Saver as one of 20 best applications for Windows Vista. Respect...
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Less, then 12 hours and more then 2500 downloads - that's the verdict for this tool. Awareness, there are some critical bugs found in Battery Tracker. Please download the new version (from the same location) and replace the version on your computer. This is required action, due the version from August, 29th has number of bugs, that prevent you from sending me system traces. Sorry for inconvenience and thank you for cooperation.
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A lot of people ask me about how to measure power charging or discharging rate. How to know the quality of your battery and power needs of operating system. How to be sure, that Vista Battery Saver really helps to prolong your battery life and detect exactly how it prolongs it. Two evenings and I wrote small utility, that helps you to know exactly what happens with your laptop battery and helps me to understand what to fix and what to add to VBS to make it better.
All you need to do, is to download Battery Tracker, run it, and after some time of tracing hit Stop Tracking link. It asks you to save traces. Write work conditions or any other useful information and then press Save button then, hitting Submit link, send it to me via email. If you want me to know any particular event, write it into text area. By pressing Add link you'll save in into current trace.
Log data-minding tool still not ready to public release, thus currently you can not work with log files, however, submitting this information, highly important for me for future development of Vista Battery Saver. Also, this program works on Windows XP, so if you still have it, please send me traces as well (this mode is not checked enough)
This tool is not collecting any personal information, so, you can quietly submit traces to me. Thank you for cooperation.
Grazie to Andrea Dellamonica from Tisource for Italian translation of Vista Battery Saver. Get latest installer from CodePlex (some minor fixes there)
I want to purchase Code Signing Digital ID for VBS to sign code and pass Certified for Vista. There are more, then 500K installation of this software. All we need is 99$ (simple certificate) or 399$ (advanced), thus if each 1000th person will donate 1$, we can buy the certificate and have one dollar spare :). Chip in for Microsoft Authenticode here
Today, looking in Tafiti, I found additional sources noticed Vista Battery Saver. Actually, small sources such as Wired, Download.com, Tucows and Chip (German). If you're noticed about other big sources wrote about the utility, leave a comment here to update this post
New minor release of VBS. In this release - fixes of grammar in English strings (tnx to John Guin), German and French localization +bug with German version fixed (tnx to Muty and Vista french community), changes in default power plans and installer.
Thank you, contributors, keep doing great job - we're very close to RC1 - Features will be included - idle awareness, LCD dimming support (for some models), possibly services disablement.
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Vielen Dank to Muty. Now Vista Battery Savers speaks German.
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Yesturday, the biggest newspaper in Israel, Yedioth Achronot wrote about Vista Battery Saver. Here the scan of the post.
Dear visitors, if you see such publications in significant magazines or newspapers in your area, please send me a scan of it. We'll put them all together. Kindof trackbacks :)
Today morning, I noticed about the popularity of Vista Battery Saver. It's in 2nd place by popularity in CodePlex. Thank you all for your support and contributions for this project. Maybe, some day, this program will appears in Windows Vista Extra downloads, or, even in Windows Update. Who knows...
Now you can get latest beta 2 of Vista Battery Saver in French. Great thanks to Vista french community (VistaRC) for this contribution.
If you want to use Vista Battery Saver in french, just download VistaBatterySaverSetup-MUI.msi from current release location and if your locale is FR, you'll get french UI for this application
New version of Vista Battery Saver (beta 2) is available for download from CodePlex. Except bug fixes, there is a new feature - automatic power plan change, depends on power source you are working with. I'm really wondering, why this feature is not available in Windows Vista out-of-the-box? For example, if you are working on battery, you'd want to use Power Saver plan, however, if you are working on AC, you'd rather use Balanced or High Performance. So, Vista Battery Saver does it for you now. All you have to do is to run it and configure plan you want to use on battery and on AC.
In this version, I completely rewrite power aware routines, and now it's using only direct system API call, this way, I get rid over expensive timers. So, download it, use it and notice report all bugs discovered on CodePlex issues tracker and in comments.
Thank you. Remember, It still do not run itself after the installation. You should look into Start->Accessories menu to find and run it.
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Due to chronic lack of time, I decided to publish full source code of Vista Battery Saver on CodePlex . I believe, that only this way, I can assure this really useful and important software to live. All developers, what to take care together with me on...(read more)
Yesterday, I posted a beta version of Vista Battery Saver . It made a lot of wind over the statement, that Vista Aero Interface together with Windows Sidebar drain your laptop battery. The same day at night, Nick White from development team wrote, that...(read more)
It's not a secret, that cool WDM (Aero user interface), announced in Windows Vista eat laptops' battery as hungry animal eats it's victim. But what, actually, "eat" your battery - mostly three things: Aero, Sidebar and your wide laptop screen. We have...(read more)
