georgehe01: Make a more obvious low battery warning

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Make a more obvious low battery warning

I once owned a ThinkPad T60 series and when the battery in it became critically low it would beep wildly and make its low battery status very well known (impossible to ignore) and forced me to do something about it.

I am distracted easily, and when focused on other things, I tend to completely ignore that little warning window and the tiny alert noise that comes with it that Mac OS X presents me when my battery is low. I have created an AppleScript and developed a method to get a similar effect on my Mac laptop. Paste the following contents into the AppleScript Editor and save the script to: /etc/batteryScript.applescript. [crarko adds: You may first need to save the file to your Desktop and then copy it to the hidden /etc directory after using the Finder 'Go to Folder...' command.] ...