Well. This Sucks. Sucks big time.

Guess you understood what sucks. Battery life time of the my MBP sucks now. A small Google search resulted in few facts. There are so many people who have their Battery Load cycles more than 400 and even then their battery health better than 80%. And few with battery load cycles less than 200 and their battery health better than 80%. I’m in a awkward stage where I’ve lesser and more number of battery cycles than the both groups of people but battery life sucking badly at 45%

Well, there is a bright side of this story. This is NOT my personal laptop *Evil Grin*. This is my from my work. (Ofcourse, battery health and life sucks on my personal laptop too) Even then, its very much irritating when you laptop can live without adaptor only for 1 hour.

BTW, the screenshot is of the software named coconutBattery which does it work exactly as the screenshot next (System Profiler can also help)

Now, why the hell does my (your) MBP shows wrong information on the menu bar about the battery life ? I found some information on Apple’s site about calibrating battery so that it shows correct information in the menu bar. But, Apple help page’s summary tells that its same procedure for obtaining best performance. You can find those instructions at this Apple’s page. Will certainly update you guys if anything goes good after following the procedure.

Google introduced a new feature in Gmail service. Gmail now shows last 5 access types and IP addresses which accessed the current account and lets you end sessions from other locations (where you might have hit remember me option)

Seriously, this is one kick ass feature I’ve been looking for in gmail and they’ve done it with a sweet add-on (I never expected the remote sign-off feature) and for this feature, love you Google.

Don’t ask me why I’ve covered my IP address, I’ve no clue why I did that. May be because, I usually find IP addresses and IDs concealed in screenshots.

Being a guy who wants to learn something new all the time, I had a wish to keep three computers one on windows, one on Linux and one on OSX and see them talking to each other. Well, being a guy who is neither born with a silver spoon nor working for Apple or Google, I can’t afford a mac(book). I’ve to adjust with my bulky-yet powerful Dell. My cousin got a VAIO which runs on Vista. My Dell runs on Gutsy as well as Good-old-XP. Apart from these two laptops, I’ve a desktop under my control which use to run XP. I wanted to share screenshots of 3 great Operating Systems - one which is maximum used OS and definitely a favorite for gamers, one which is hacker’s OS and the third being - the designer’s paradise.

1. Windows XP SP2

2. Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10

3. Leopard - OS X 10.5.1

The third one was something which I was missing from long time. Very long time. I wanted to buy one but not in my budget. I wanted to try one, none of my friends got it. I wanted to experience one atleast on my laptop, I wasn’t very sure of risking the data on it. Finally. Today is the day for my Hackintosh and it worked out. I will write a detailed post sometime regarding the care that needs to be taken while trying this. I messed-up my partition table by missing just 2 characters and later I managed to recover couple of partitions, I went for a clean installation. It is a great experience and is for a great OS. Now, saving each rupee for a real mac book.

If you see carefully, theme of my XP is variant of famous “Bluecurve”, which is a Linux theme and the mouse theme is of OS X Tiger. Theme of my Gutsy is theme of OS X Tiger and theme of Leopard is not changed (yet)

Update : Just saw that post got nothing to do with the Title. Uhmm, I started to post about my journey and ended up posting just screenshots. Anyway, I’ll tell you how to tame the leopard some time soon.

Update : No more hackintosh. Using work’s macbook pro.