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Friday Favorites: Unit Converter

by Megan Lavey-Heaton Dec 2nd 2011 at 6:00PM

Welcome to Friday Favorites! Every Friday, one of us will get all sloppy over an app, web service, or Mac feature that we feel is indispensable.

To me, Dashboard feels like the forgotten relative of OS X, the one that sits quietly in the back of the room during the family reunion that has surprisingly good stories. There's some amazing widgets for Dashboard, and Unit Converter is one of them.

It can convert a number of categories including area, currency, power, pressure, speed, weight, volume and more. It's a free converter that might not have all the units you're looking for (compare more than 130 currencies in Currencies to 40 in Unit Converter).

I'm in a marriage that requires regular translation of meters to inches, stone to pounds (weight), Celsius into Fahrenheit and pounds (currency) into dollars, and the Unit Converter widget is an indispensable tool in sorting out what my husband is telling me. If you need a quick converter, Unit Converter is free and already on your Mac.



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Vijay Arunkumar

Searching google (or even bing!) is much better suited for this task. Try searching for "25EUR in USD" or "15ft in cm". It's even better when done through the quick search bar in safari.

December 04 2011 at 4:12 PM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
fthecave

The problem with Dashboard is, there are several Apps that require Dashboard being disabled, like Pro Tools in Snow Leopard.

December 04 2011 at 2:46 PM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
ashoukas

Still don't get why this isn't a native app in iOS?

December 03 2011 at 11:08 AM Report abuse +2 rate up rate down Reply
Edward V.C. Jackson

I've always been a big fan of the Dashboard and load several widgets (iStat Pro, Organized, Timecode Calculator and TheBom) on every Mac I use. For unit/currency conversions I use Google.

December 03 2011 at 5:37 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Rhys L

I also use the dashboard regularly for TheBom, iStat Pro, Calculator etc etc.

December 04 2011 at 10:07 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Andreas

hm… nice Hint but i don't find the right one. Can you set a Link to the Article so i can Download it directly?

Best wishes from Germany

December 03 2011 at 5:14 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Michael K.

The German name of the widget is “Umrechnen”. It's already on your Mac. You can activate it from dashboard by clicking on the + symbol in the lower left corner, then scroll until you see it, then click on the widget symbol to activate it.

December 04 2011 at 3:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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