Calculator Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Daily Mac App: Soulver

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 28th, 2011)

Soulver, which has billed itself in the past as a "plain English" calculator, has been around for the past few years as a complex calculator with a simple interface. To use Soulver, type in a math question as you would write it out on paper. Soulver provides the answer as you're typing, ...

Seven free iOS apps to help you out in the lab

by Samuel Gibbs (Apr 18th, 2011)

There are apps for converting between weights, volumes and areas, for converting currency and even to calculate your split of the tip at a bar; but what about apps for scientists? An iOS device, like an iPhone, is almost constantly on your person, so why not get some apps for helping you out in ...

Final app giveaway of 2010: Digits for iOS

by Michael Rose (Dec 31st, 2010)

The clock is ticking toward midnight in the US, and in fact our colleague Chris Rawson has already begun 2011 (he's in New Zealand, on the other side of the International Date Line). To count all the ways we're thankful to have spent the past 12 months with all of you would take more time than we ...

Calculator's currency calculations currently kaput

by TJ Luoma (Oct 29th, 2010)

OS X's built-in Calculator.app has built-in support for currency conversions. To get accurate results, you have to update the currency exchange rates from inside the application. This feature is currently broken for many users, as I discovered after it wouldn't work for me. Several threads on the ...

iPad: The missing apps

by Dave Caolo (Sep 15th, 2010)

As we suspected back in March, the iPad shipped without apps that are standard on the iPhone: Stocks, Calculator, Clock, Weather, Voice Memos, and Compass. Instead of going without, we've found the best examples of each for you to install and get your iPad on par with your iPhone. Clock Our own ...

App demo: BistroMath

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 29th, 2010)

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Tapbots releases Calcbot, Macheist makes it cheap

by Mike Schramm (Jul 13th, 2010)

taptaptap, Tapbots, and Macheist have released a very well-designed calculator app for the iPhone and iPad called Calcbot -- it's available for 99 cents right now on the App Store. I would say that I don't know why we need another calculator app on the store, but this one's designed by Tapbots, so ...

TUAW's Daily App: Space Invaders Business Cards

by Mike Schramm (Jun 21st, 2010)

The Taito Corporation is the Japanese developer that owns the Space Invaders franchise, and they have done something pretty crazy with the App Store. They've released a series of completely free, Space Invaders-branded apps, most of which have nothing to do with the game at all. There's the Space ...

Friday giveaway: Get your calculator back on with Digits for iPad

by Michael Rose (May 14th, 2010)

If you divvy up the universe of iPad hands-on coverage over the past month, there's a reasonable midline with "Here's all I was able to do with it" on one side, and "Here are the things it doesn't do, isn't that ludicrous?" on the other. Michael Gartenberg's post at Slashgear about a two-week ...

iPhone 4.0 OS Screen shots: custom wallpaper, folders, multitasking, and more!

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 8th, 2010)

And they keep coming in! TUAW reader Tom has sent us screen shots showing iPhone OS 4.0's ability to support custom wallpaper (and the new dock style), an open and closed Apps folder containing four apps, multitasking, and a new Calculator icon. Check out all the screen shots in the gallery below! ...

First Look: It's About Time brings widgets to the iPad with mini apps

by Steven Sande (Mar 31st, 2010)

Several years ago at Macworld Expo, I had the pleasure of meeting Saied Ghaffari, CEO of a small company called It's About Time Products, LLC. The company had created a training app which ran on the Mac and provided new iPhone users a chance to learn more about their devices, iTunes, and ...

iPhone icons in felt keychain form

by Mike Schramm (Feb 4th, 2010)

Unfortunately these guys are already sold out (though maybe there'll be more soon), but I'm still posting them here just to gaze on their awesomeness -- Etsy user Rabbitrampage put together these six iPhone icon keychains (well, five iPhone and one Finder) out of felt, thread, and fiber fill. I ...

Considering parenthood? There's an app for that

by Dave Caolo (Jan 25th, 2010)

In just a few days, a UK couple will welcome their "iPhone baby." After three years of unsuccessful attempts at pregnancy, the couple downloaded an unnamed fertility calculator app. The mother-to-be, who wishes to remain anonymous, entered her temperature and other information daily. The app then ...

Soulver brings a calculator scratchpad to your iPhone

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 5th, 2010)

Acqualia's Soulver, a very cool "calculator scratchpad" (which we've covered before), has come to the iPhone [iTunes link]. Both versions allow you to enter expressions in regular mathematical form, or a more "natural language" form. It keeps a running total in the sidebar, and you can reference ...

Off the screen and onto your desk: Mac OS X Calculator app done in atoms, not bits

by Josh Carr (Nov 12th, 2009)

The creative minds at Mintpass have taken applications we're all pretty familiar with and brought us ideas that make the TUAW bloggers drool. Recently, they created Mint Calculator #4; a concept that pulls the calculators from both the Mac OS and Windows out of the screen and places them on your ...