PIANOMANSAM  I wish the Tiger version was still available for download!  
(Version 4.0.1)

PIANOMANSAM  I quickly modified the original menu bar icon in Photoshop. Take a look: http://pianomansam.110mb.com/images/icon-on.png  
(Version 1.0.1)

PIANOMANSAM  New 1.1 works great! Feature Request: Check list for selecting contacts to import instead of a million dialogue boxes.  
(Version 1.1)

PIANOMANSAM  Gets through a few contacts, updates some but not others, and randomly quits.  
(Version 1.0)

PIANOMANSAM  tell application "System Events"

set front_app to item 1 of (get name of processes whose frontmost is true)

end tell

if front_app is equal to "Finder" then  
(Version 3.0b1)

PIANOMANSAM  I am no longer developing this application. Its features and usability have been passed by UnPlugged, and I recommend you use that wonderful software.  
(Version 0.4)

PIANOMANSAM  I've downloaded this program and liked how it doesn't use as resources or processing time as my own program. However, I really miss the audible alert that mine gives. If you could include some sort of beep or user selectable sound, I would switch over to your app. I only wrote PowerCheck because at the time there weren't any other programs that offered this funtionality. My programming skills are limited, but you seem to have a good grasp of it. I think it'd be also helpful to release this to open source, that way it could be included in HardwareGrowl, something I already use. Thanks!  
(Version 1.7)

PIANOMANSAM  Sorry to hear about your experience. I only have 10.4.5 to work with, so this is untested on 10.3.x Make sure to have dragged the entire folder to Applications and run it out of Applications/Power Check. As far as I know there weren't any major changes in appleScript between 10.3 and 10.4 that would have affected this app. If you were happy with 0.2 and extra customization isn't necessary to you, then stick with 0.2 If you do want to customize it, open the contents of the app and take a look at Contents/Resources/Scripts/main.scpt Here you can change the sound it makes or anything else. Btw, if you want to get ahold of me directly, my email is on my user page here. Thanks and good luck!  
(Version 0.4)

PIANOMANSAM  Two things.

First, Power Check 0.4 uses lots less memory. I've been running an instance of it for several hours and it's only at 3.84 MB.

Second, version numbers do say something a program. If it is < 0.5 it's still alpha quality. If it is < 1.0 it's beta quality. Beyond that, it doesn't matter so much. What is perhaps more important than version numbers is revision times. A program that has been revised 10 times is probably better than a program with only two revisions.  
(Version 0.4)

PIANOMANSAM  I use a similar piece of software to ChargerChecker. Yes, you could noticed a change in brightness, as you said, if the brightness on battery is high or both are low it wouldn't be noticable. I find though that even with differences in brightness I sometimes still don't realize the cord has been disconnected. Hence why the need for such an application.  
(Version 0.2)

PIANOMANSAM  My fears are relived. Maybe some teamwork is in store...???  
(Version 0.3)

PIANOMANSAM  I have no problem with someone else writing a program that does the samething mine does. If I had found such a program a week ago I would have used it myself instead of writing a new one. I have no problem with the descriptions being the same either. I just think it's pretty coincidental that both were released the same day, and I want to make sure that the other author hasn't violated any GPL licencing agreements that are on my software.  
(Version 0.3)

PIANOMANSAM  What OS X version are you running? I have 10.4.5 and coded the program to not have a Dock Icon.  
(Version 0.3)

PIANOMANSAM  I also noticed that ChargerCheck does almost the same thing. I also noticed that they were both originally released the same day and have the same MacUpdate description. I also know that I wrote this software to meet my needs and put it out there to meet others needs as well. I find it strange that something else out there popped up the same day my software was released. I wrote the ChargerCheck author regarding this to make sure he didn't use any of my code. My code has been released under the GPL licence and any software making use of it must be released under the GPL licence as well. ChargerCheck is not open source. ChargerCheck also uses much more CPU. ChargerCheck doesn't have features such as audible alerts. ChargerCheck is still on 0.1 and Power Check is already on 0.3  
(Version 0.3)

PIANOMANSAM  This app is coded in AppleScript. AppleScript has no way of playing sounds internally. Play Sound gives AppleScript this ability. If the end user doesn't have Play Sound, I can code it differently to still run. If anyone has any bugs to report or features to request, please submit them on my sourceforge site. Thanks.  
(Version 0.2)