Coconut is Mmm Good!

Yes, I do love me some coconut.  Especially when you combine it with chocolate.  Give me a Mounds or even better an Almond Joy and I'll be a happy guy.  I even like the coconut milk, it's all good.

I recently discovered a new kind of coconut.  Actually it's a Mac app called coconutBattery.  What's cool about it that it displays the health of your battery.  My MacBook Pro is equipped with a Lithion-ion battery which I understood not to be subject to the battery memory affect which plagues the battery life of nickel cadmium batteries.  While at a customer site the subject of battery life came up while someone was admiring my MBP.  I boasted about the long battery life of my MBP (somewhat true) and added that it had Lithium-ion batteries which helped and had no memory issues.  I was quickly corrected that Lithium-ion batteries also suffer from the memory affect but just to a much lesser degree.  Also being a Mac user he then turned me on to this little FREE app called coconutBattery.

It's features aren't face melting but it is pretty cool that it can show you how much life your battery has lost since its purchase.  In my MBP, for example, I've owned it for 25 months now and have lost a little better than 10% of the battery already.  That sucks!!  It's gone through 569 battery cycles.  Hopefully that's not crazy high but could be giving the embarrassing amount of time I'm on the computer.

Anyway, I found it cool enough to share here.  I think the icon is pretty sweet too!