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Hello all!
It has been a while since I last posted here in the blog, mainly because since I created the twitter and facebook account I’ve been posting feed updates through there. However, today I will share some thoughts and numbers about the current status of my BatteryCare project.
I must say, I never thought that my [...]
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Project status, some numbers, and the future
Posted by Filipe Lourenço on March 13th, 2010
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So, what’s coming in the next version?
Posted by Filipe Lourenço on September 24th, 2009
English
At this point I have the 0.9.7.2 version ready to release to everyone, but I’m just waiting for a translation to be verified one last time in order to achieve perfection I hope I’ll get this translation files this week, and as soon as I get them, the update will be released.
Since [...]
New languages supported in the next version
Posted by Filipe Lourenço on September 1st, 2009
English
Thanks to an extremely nice german user and his wife, BatteryCare will support French and German in the next release.
I’ve just finished compiling a test version for them to test.
Another user from Latvia is also translating and soon I will have the translation with me.
If you would like to translate to your own language, [...]
Next update will look like this
Posted by Filipe Lourenço on August 19th, 2009
English
As you can see, there’s support for Fahrenheit degrees temperature. It contains an option to choose ºC or ºF.
There are some new icons, and the Help is finnaly linked to the FAQ in the website. I fixed also some bugs that users kindly reported via e-mail.
Soon it will be available via the [...]
Version 0.9.7.0 is out
Posted by Filipe Lourenço on August 10th, 2009
I’ll be posting in both English and Portuguese from now on.
A partir de agora vou postar em Inglês e em Português.
English
Well, I guess I skipped a version number, that’s ok!
There were so many important features in this latest version that I decided to hop to a more significant number.
Here are the changes [...]
Version 0.9.6.4 is ready for launch!
Posted by Filipe Lourenço on July 23rd, 2009
Dear users,
There are still many Windows XP users, and the current version of BatteryCare (0.9.6.3) does not support power plan switching in this system, only in Vista/Seven.
But that is about to change because the power plan auto-switching for XP is now ready for launch on the next version. It has been tested thoroughly and [...]
Melhoramentos na leitura da temperatura
Posted by Filipe Lourenço on July 14th, 2009
Caros utilizadores,
como alguns de vós já sabem, a leitura da temperatura do CPU não é feita da maneira mais correcta e nem sempre corresponde à temperatura real em alguns portáteis. O método usado não obtém os valores de temperatura do núcleo do processador, mas sim de uma zona térmica dificilmente identificável que pode estar muito [...]
Status do projecto – StandBy
Posted by Filipe Lourenço on May 26th, 2009
Caros utilizadores do BatteryCare,
como devem ter reparado o ritmo de actualizações diminuiu e deve-se fundamentalmente a duas razões:
A primeira é que estou sem tempo pois as responsabilidades académicas sobrepõem-se.
A segunda é que o programa atingiu um nível de maturidade e fiabilidade aceitável.
Existem alguns pequenos bugs que já tenho conhecimento, mas a curto prazo não conto [...]
Nova versão este fim de semana
Posted by Filipe Lourenço on April 24th, 2009
Neste fim de semana será lançada a nova versão.
Destaque para a nova funcionalidade de mudança automática dos planos de energia em Windows Vista consoante o estado de alimentação do portátil.
Mais pormenores sobre a nova versão no dia em que for lançada.
Abraços,
Filipe
Novidades para a nova versão, posterior à 0.9.5.0
Posted by Filipe Lourenço on April 10th, 2009
Novidades para a versão posterior à 0.9.5.0.
