Battery Time

Battery Time is a small widget developed for the Yahoo! Widget Engine, that lets you view the current battery status of your laptop.

The tool sports a tiny frame with a simple design, showing the remaining time until your battery is depleted. The widget integrates a surprisingly high amount of options that can be changed from the Widget Preferences panel.

For example, you can select the background color, widget and text size and widget layout (horizontal or vertical), as well as enable the mouse scrollwheel to change the layout, hide the radioactive icon, scale the color fill to match battery percentage, and disable the introductory animation.

It is also possible to enable alerts and configure settings, such as the trigger and action (e.g. low battery, show the information window and beep). The estimated time remaining can be calculated according to the system time or by using static or automatic dynamic values. Other options focus on the status display, charging color, icon and window level, and others.

The widget is light on the system resources, so it doesn't interrupt user activity. It delivers accurate information and works smoothly, without causing the Yahoo! Widget Engine to hang, crash or pop up error dialogs. Battery Time bundles plenty of customization features for a battery monitor, which should please even picky users.