Features of HollyHug Windows Toolkit:

This is a list of HollyHug's most popular features.
You can read the full feature list here...

LAST UPDATED on 18/Sep/2011 by Quinn Ebert

• This list isn't by any means complete, but, it should give you an idea of what the most motivating features of the HollyHug software are...
• SmartPower: Better optimize your system by allowing it to switch between Windows Vista/Windows 7 power plans when your system idles for an extended period. You can even use Windows Vista/Windows 7 advanced power plan settings to use the SmartPower feature to forcibly slow down your CPU during extended absences for additional power/heat savings.
  • SmartPower will soon also offer what's called the "Busy mode" feature, which allows you to set certain Windows programs should require the system to bring itself to its utmost levels of performace. Couple this with power plan settings to prevent CPU, RAM, disk, USB, or any other throttling of any type and you can truly realize as much power as your system can offer for using certain applications with the peace of mind that when these apps close SmartPower will return your system to settings that promote the normal balanced power savings and system performance (and the advanced power savings that SmartPower provides when you're away).
• Advanced Laptop Battery Power Information: Want to know the **real** health of your laptop's battery at any moment? Whether you're plugged in to AC power, on battery with your stock battery, or rockin' it with an extended battery this feature will give you the refreshed-every-minute low-down on these metrics of your laptop's portable power source:
  • Current watt-hours: This is the number that Windows' power level (in percentage points) is calculated with, but, they give you no way to see it by default! Know exactly what charge level your battery has left using a scientific metric expressed with several decimals of precision!
  • Current voltage: This is an interesting metric for the electrical engineering set. Every minute, this number with multiple decimal precision is updated, and tells you the resident voltage of the battery as it charges or discharges.
  • Full watt-hours: Various factors can cause the full reported available power of your battery to change, one of these factors is just random flux of the total capacity that occurrs on a regular basis (especially when you switch between DC and AC power), or a major change in the full capacity can indicate a quickly failing cell. Either way, with this multiple-decimal-precision metric, you'll know how you're set for whatever portable work lies ahead of you.
  • Precision Percentage (coming soon): Using these extremely-accurate numbers, in the next release, HollyHug can actually give you a more accurate percentage-based power level (with at least one decimal's precision).
• Always-available battery runtime estimate: Windows is dumb enough to only show you an estimate of remaining battery power if the battery system itself supports this feature. However, HollyHug thinks that you should at least be given the benefit of being a smart enough user to know that your computer should be able to use the rate of discharge to get a reasonable idea of remaining runtime, and so HollyHug will provide you with an estimate of both remaining runtime and remaining time to full charge (if you're plugged in) to make your life a little easier if your PC doesn't support the battery providing a time estimate.