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- IQ70, on 10/12/2007, -5/+72If they included everything, they would be sued by everyone for monopolistic behavior.
- dougsnell, on 10/12/2007, -6/+51Or people would complain about "bloatware".
- commiecat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28It also does Roman numeral calculations as well. I guess that probably sounds obvious with Google but I had no idea. I was looking up the difference between DVI cables and found that when I looked up "DVI-I", Google answered with "DVI - I = DV".
Yes, I'm easily amused by these sorts of things. :) - antistupid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29Because the link requires WGA (at least for me) :(
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/4/5/045ae76d-2edb-4e6b-84af-aba399e2f2e8/CalcPlus.msi - Desimat0r, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25Microsoft Powertoys Calculator is far better than this. Use Google for conversions.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/PowerCalcPowertoySetup.exe - Guard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Yes Eventually...
I don't hear you complaining that it doesn't support Windows 3.1 - DigDugDigger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Why isn't this included :-/
- tisfl37, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Very cool. I hate having to Google conversion info everytime I want to know how many quarts are in a mile... ;)
- joshpowell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Works on Vista.
I'm amazed at how ugly this thing is though! It doesn't even look like a Windows app... I'd expect better from Microsoft. - digitalArtform, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14You can do all that directly in the Google search box
- Erfus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Wow, what a beauty! This looks like a Smurf calculator.
- wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Thankfully you have a "Valid Copy" of Windows.
- spinemangler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10just click "classic view"
- TheTrust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10click on View then Classic View
- Scottish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9You can turn on Classic View, which looks just like the regular calc.exe, in the View menu.
Edit: just beat by spinemangler. - gurm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I like google conversions too.. it even has some far out constants like "once in a blue moon":
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=once+in+a+blue+moon - Devz0r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Maybe if the US actually joined in with the other first world countries (and some third world countries) and started using the (easier, more logical) SI units, then half of these wouldn't even be required.
I'm American, by the way. - Aleman360, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Just a tip on Google calc: if you use "in" instead of "to" it will return only the conversion without any search results.
e.g., http://www.google.com/search?q=299+pounds+in+dollars - Gryffydd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The thing I like most about Google for conversions is the ability to ask it things like "550 grams per liter in pounds per gallon", or "2700 feet per second in miles per hour".
You can get it to do multi-step conversions in a single step. - Phil246, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Just use google calculator instead, it can handle those sorts of things too and its more conveniant ( for me ) to just google it instead of having to fire up a specialised calculator to do it all
http://www.google.com/search?q=10+square+miles+to+square+kilometers - Area
http://www.google.com/search?q=5+dollars+to+pounds - Currency
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=10+calories+to+joules - Energy
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=50+metres+to+inches - Length
and so on and so on. Im sure it can cope with most - if not all that the calculator app there can do. - horizonsonfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Google also includes a bunch of constants... the speed of light, Planck's constant, and lots of others.
- waxdart, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Those personal computers will definitely include a spell-check.
- JoshStix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The currency convertor doesn't have English pounds or US dollars...
That's terrible!! - apex32, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The Google calculator can even tell you the answer to life, the universe, and everything:
http://www.google.com/search?q=the+answer+to+life+the+universe+and+everything - fleischner, on 10/12/2007, -10/+15Mac OS X has all this built into the basic calc, including currency converter... :-)
- john2kx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10thanks for the link.. I'd much rather keep WGA off my computer.
- bemaniac, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8You know, if the US just adopted the metric system, we wouldn't be needing all of this conversion mumbo jumbo.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6For all the "just use Google" comments. There are many workstations in labs all over the world that do not have internet connectivity, so it's kinda hard to use Google for everything. At least with this it can be copied to thumb drive etc. and installed locally.
- maexus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It doesn't have US dollars for currency conversion
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4and it's smelly
- sapped, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Wow! I am referring to the fact that somebody posted a link to imageshack which actually showed the actual image instead of the "excessive bandwidth" image I have grown to associate with them.
Amazing! - tdogg241, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Installed the PowerToy Calc a few months ago and haven't looked back. So much better than the standard calc.exe. And from the looks of it, much better than this new one too.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They could have at least used the default windows theme. Looks like a calculator from an instructional program for elementary school children.
- tHePeOPle, on 10/12/2007, -8/+11or you could just use google for all of this.
- tipexy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3more uselessly it converts to currencies no longer used. Italian Lira, French franc, dutch gilder? Its all euros mate, has been since 2002, well before this was developed.
- fquednau, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4...
electron charge in Coulomb
electron charge in Ampere*s
proton mass in bar/g*inch^2
Man, I can't get enough of this anymore! - fquednau, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yup, and crazier ones
2 fortnights in days
300 cubic inch in cubic metres
400 psi in Pa
500 Joules in eV
3 ev/s in terawatts
h in Joule*s
h in psi*m^3*fortnight (!!!)
all work in Google...way cool! - 0Chaos0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Great I can convert foreign currencies to other foreign currencies! Where is the CAD or USD?
- macnogeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Wow sounds like the dashboard widget from 2 years ago on OS X
- pszczepa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is calc.exe + conversions.. but there is no British pound! Useless... And I don't like the interface.
- rune420, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I don't like it, too slow. For example try typing sin(10^6).
- deadbaby, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Wow that is pretty bad. Why doesn't it just use the standard Windows theme?
- MrHighTech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@sapped
just wait... - wvdavis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6A cool app for conversions that you can put on a thumb drive: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/convert.html
- neko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Qalculate! is nice and does these kinds of conversions.
- poseitom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Am I having a deja vu? I'm hearing Def Leppard allready…
- Pensador, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thanks; I'll give it a try.
- thedark, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1if you need temperature conversion you must check: http://www.tampile.com
- Render, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4google.com
- Chrontius, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Direct link!
http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/4/5/045ae76d-2edb-4e6b-84af-aba399e2f2e8/CalcPlus.msi -
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