How many times do you find yourself in need of a quick conversion, whether it be currency exchanging, meters to feet, Celsius to Fahrenheit, lbs to kilograms? Or maybe you just want to know how many drams are in a pinch? Er what? The Converter application for the iPhone and iPod Touch offers so many different units to converter to and from that I spent half my time testing it exploring new units of measurement that I’ve never even heard of.
All things considered, a program that offers such a myriad of measurements may suggest a cumbersome interface, after all there are 17 categories alone from which you can select a multitude of different units. Those categories are: Area, Clothing, Currency, Data Storage, Energy, Flow, Fuel Consumption, Kitchen, Length, Power, Pressure, Speed, Temperature, Time, Torque, Volume, and Mass. However, this program offers a simple, streamlined approach. From the main screen you select a category from a list (which also offers easy to identify icons), then a unit to convert from and a unit to convert to. At the base of the main screen is your standard calculator interface from which you enter the amount you want converted. There is even a sliding scale for precision, which adjusts how many decimal places you want the conversion to be accurate to.
Now, I know it’s difficult to get excited over such a simple utility, but that’s the greatest strength of such an application: its simplicity, which adds to it’s practicality. Though it may not be an exciting game, it is very handy. And who knows, maybe it’ll settle a few bar bets too.
Ever since iPhones were released, I have yearned after getting my own but I haven’t had one yet.
iphone has sooo many really cool applications for it. Some are just silly fun things, as well as handy stuff like the converter. They’ve really gone to town of the gadgetry.
A nice application, but even if I had an iPhone I would never really need this.
but that is the beauty of it justontime! All this useless information immediately at your fingertips… wonderful