On/Off » tips http://blog.yoavfarhi.com Yoav Farhi's blog Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:46:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha What to do when the MacBook battery drains in Sleep http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/2010/06/20/macbook-battery-sleep-mode/ http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/2010/06/20/macbook-battery-sleep-mode/#comments Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:37:51 +0000 Yoav http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/?p=455 Continue reading →]]> A couple of weeks ago my MacBook battery started to drain heavily when the computer was in sleep (standby) mode. This was really troubling – and while I was still getting a decent enough run on a full charge, a “Service Battery” notice also appeared on the power menu.

Service Battert notfication for the macbook pro

The fix? A reset of the System Management Controller:

In some cases, resetting the SMC may be the only correct method to resolve the issue, however, an SMC reset should only be attempted after all other standard troubleshooting has been performed.

From Apple support site,  Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)

That didn’t remove the notice from the power menu, but the battery draining issue is gone.

]]> http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/2010/06/20/macbook-battery-sleep-mode/feed/ 0 How to make Growl notifications show up in your secondary monitor http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/2009/11/10/how-to-make-growl-notification-show-up-in-your-secondary-monitor/ http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/2009/11/10/how-to-make-growl-notification-show-up-in-your-secondary-monitor/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:38:55 +0000 Yoav http://blog.yoavfarhi.com/?p=372 If you’re using Growl and have more than one monitor, here’s how to make the notifications appear on your secondary display:

  1. System Preferences->Growl
  2. Display Options
  3. Screen: 1 (or 2 or 3 etc…) – 0 is for your primary monitor.

Growl

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