Convert Any Unit
Jason O'Donoghue | Oct 31, 2011 Utilities
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Convert Any Unit ($0.99) by Convert Any Unit by Cider Software LLC http://www.cidersoftware.com/
Available on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
I have a confession to make. I love unit converter apps; perhaps even as much as I like calculator apps, so I’m always keen to try out new ones when given the chance.
Convert Any Unit is a sleek minimalistic app, sporting a brushed steel finish that’s straightforward to use and has 24 categories of units, covering over 3600 different units.
Q&F: 9-Toolbox
Michael (Admin) | May 12, 2009 Quick & Free, Utilities
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(7 votes, average: 4.14 out of 5)
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9-Toolbox is free right now, but normally sells for $4.99
You’ve probably seen 9-Toolbox in the App Store’s Top 25 list of freebies, and for good reason! It’s a basically the Swiss Army Knife of iPhone utilities and comes with all kinds of functions:
- Currency conversion
- Date-to-date calculations
- Lists holidays in just about every part of the world
- Two different bubble levels
- Loan calculator with side-by-side loan comparison
- Tip calculator and bill splitter
- 6 different unit conversions (area, length, pressure, temperature, volume, weight)
And it even tries to help you track… uhhh… “lady stuff”! Periods, ovulation, pregnancy probability, that kind of thing.
Hey, the app’s free. Get it before e2ndesign decides they want your money!
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- Between 9-Toolbox and Wikipanion, you'll truly be an annoying Know It All
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- Keeping tabs on menstrual cycles is fun for the whole family
CalcConv
Lee | Feb 18, 2009 Productivity
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(22 votes, average: 2.68 out of 5)
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CalcConv by Mobilissimo is an interesting and handy tool. I have been playing with it for the past week. Its starting point is the basic calculator, very similar in look and feel to the Calculator app that comes with the iPhone/Touch. That calculator covers the basic and scientific calculator.
CalcConv begins to shine when you go beyond the calculator features to the conversion features. The conversions range
from temperature, to acceleration to taxes (yes taxes: US or Canada. Nifty). First impressions. I like having this with me. I like to know it’s there when I need it. My most likely uses include currency exchange, sales markups or markdowns, cooking, volume and length. There are 25 categories in version 1.3.
When I first got the app, there was a bit of a problem with changing the units, but an update quickly took care of that. Now there are very distinguishing up/down arrows in each corner and a nice big space in the top middle for changing conversion units. I also found it appealing that results flash up as you are inputting data, real time calculations. The only thing is that you have to adjust your attention if you are only using it as a calculator because the last conversion data remains on the screen as well. Once you do a calculation or two, that’s easily ignored.
RPN calculators are quite numerous in the AppStore. This feature is available in CalcConv. I’ve never done math calculations in this manner on a calculator, so I had to spend a little time on Wikipedia learning about this methodology. For those inclined, my understanding is that RPN allows more efficient data entry. I can logically follow it, but for some reason, it seems a new trick this dog can’t handle right now. So I stick to the old (inefficient) way for now.
That aside, I had another conversion application before this. It quickly lost its spot to Mobilissimo’s CalcConv.
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