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Softpedia Editor's Review for Power Meter Plus
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A simple meter that displays battery information
Written by Bogdan Popa on May 29th, 2012
Power Meter Plus is a battery monitoring tool that shows the current status of the laptop battery right on the desktop.
In essence just a very lightweight application that keeps an eye on battery power levels, Power Meter Plus provides many more tools than that.
First of all, the battery level can be easily monitored via a floating window that stays on top of all the other apps all the time. What's more, it gradually gets more visible as power levels drop, so the window is fully visible when you're about to run out of power.
Because keeping such a floating window always on top may affect your workflow, it was developed to switch from left to right side and vice-versa, depending on your mouse clicks. If for example you click on the window displayed in the left side of the screen, it automatically moves to the right side.
The configuration screen comes with some interesting options, allowing you to choose the colors and the bar graph display, as well as two different thresholds, namely battery critical level and battery effectively full level.
As you may expect, Power Meter Plus runs on very low resources and it gets along very well with all Windows iterations, without even asking for administrator privileges.
As a conclusion, Power Meter Plus is one of the most popular battery monitoring solutions, requiring basic computer knowledge and providing plenty of configuration options. It's freeware and although a help manual does not exist, most of the features rely on a very intuitive approach.
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Power Meter Plus description
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Here are some key features of "Power Meter Plus":
· It gradually appears as the power levels drop. The lower the power, the more prominent the meter will be
· When you’re charging the laptop it’ll turn green and slowly disappear/fade as the charge increases
· The meter appears either on the bottom left or bottom right of the screen; it moves to the opposite corner if you move your mouse over it or disappears and fades back after your cursor has left the area.
· A large message will appear when the laptop switches from mains power to battery (and vice versa).
· Small size! 76k executable &
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fixes a bug whereby the meter would revert back to the left after switching power mode
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