Calculator Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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 ...

Clever iPhone app prevents calculator pR0n

by Steven Sande (Oct 1st, 2009)

A tweet earlier today pointed me to an iPhone calculator app that really got me laughing, as well as taking me on a trip down memory lane. When I was in high school, calculators were expensive (US$200 for a six-function calculator with memory, for example) and just starting to make it into the ...

TUAW Tip: Option-clicking the green button

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 18th, 2009)

When iTunes 9 changed the behavior of the green "maximize" button to shrink the player to the mini player, I adapted quickly. Option-clicking is pretty easy to do since the option key (unlike control) is on both sides of my laptops' keyboards. But I forgot that option-clicking the green button on ...

FinalPrice shopping app released

by David Winograd (Jul 6th, 2009)

For those of you who still frequent brick and mortar stores, Jimmi Rehman has released the new FinalPrice 1.0 shopping app for the iPhone/iPod Touch at 99 cents. It requires 3.0 software to run. This app is a useful one-trick-pony. If you find a sale, the idea is to have your iPhone figure out how ...

Apple's tasty calculator mistake

by Cory Bohon (Aug 26th, 2008)

In a recent tip, TUAW reader Dr. Drang told us about a bug he found on the iPhone/iPod touch's calculator. According to his research, when you type π × 2 + 5 = into the calculator you get 11.283... (the correct answer). However, when you reverse the Pi and 2, entering 2 × π + 5, ...

iPhone Calculator gets scientific in 2.0

by Mike Schramm (Jun 9th, 2008)

It probably wasn't the most consequential update of the day, but we did get one big question answered from the iPhone SDK event in February: why the iPhone's calculator icon got changed from round buttons to square ones. Apple apparently had a lot of requests for a scientific version of the ...

Engadget plays with iPhone 2.0

by Mike Schramm (Mar 19th, 2008)

Our lucky friends at Engadget somehow got to play with the iPhone 1.2/2.0 beta (no word on if they'll send it along to Erica anytime soon), and they confirmed a lot of things we'd guessed at previously. Exchange support works as smoothly as Scott and Mike had hoped, but there's still no two-pane ...

New icons for iTunes and Calculator on the iPhone 2.0

by Mike Schramm (Mar 7th, 2008)

We did catch this during our liveblog of the SDK talk on Thursday, but just in case you hadn't seen them yet, it seems both the iTunes WiFi store and the calculator will be getting new icons in the iPhone's 2.0 patch. Of course, the App Store will apparently have its own icon as well, and we would ...

Leopard Love: Apple boosts Calculator

by Erica Sadun (Dec 10th, 2007)

OS X's Calculator application is something I basically ignore. Between Spotlight and Terminal's bc, I rarely if ever use it. So it was a pleasant and welcome surprise when TUAW reader Roberto Mateu gave us a heads up that Leopard's calculator was updated with better RPN support. Calculator has done ...

Coming in iPhone 1.1.1. probably

by Mike Schramm (Sep 19th, 2007)

Eagle-eyed reader Travis (thanks!) went over Engadget's photos of the O2 iPhone announced yesterday morning, and sussed out every little feature and update he saw on their iPhones that current owners don't have. We can only believe that the iPhones shown must have already been updated to 1.1.1, and ...

Modding Apple's calculator widget

by Dave Caolo (Jun 14th, 2007)

Jonas at the MacThemes Forums got tired of looking at the "...old Cartoonish orangy interface" of Apple's calculator Dashboard widget. So, he made his own. It's a simple black affair with recessed buttons. We think it looks sharp. When you install it, you'll be asked if you want to replace the ...

Soulver "plain English" calculator

by Mat Lu (Apr 25th, 2007)

Just yesterday we posted on the bc command line calculator. Well on the other end of the UI spectrum is Soulver from Acqualia Software. Its authors claim that Soulver is a "plain English" calculator in that you can actually type in certain (in fact very limited) phrases and get answers, as you see ...

A few of my favorite Widgets

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 21st, 2006)

When my machine was a rickety little 800 MHz iBook, crusted with too many hacks, apps and utilities, I just gave up on Widgets. Dashboard was a system hog on an already dog-slow machine, and I just killed it off. My MacBook Pro is another story. While I've eschewed the volume of Widgets a true ...

Widget Watch: iPodage song calculator

by David Chartier (Nov 16th, 2006)

Remember that iPod storage calculator iLounge released? It seems Christian Chladek, maker of such other widgets as the Morse Code Translator, was inspired to provide an iPod calculator in widget form. iPodage allows you to pick your iPod model and adjust all the vital settings to do some quick and ...

iLounge unveils iPod Storage Calculator

by David Chartier (Oct 23rd, 2006)

Apple offers their own advertising-friendly estimation of how many songs each model of iPod can hold, but those numbers are based on fairly unrealistic standards of 128Kbps AAC songs that are a mere 4 minutes long. Toss in a few tracks from Phish or Beethoven's 5th, and you can easily hurl this song ...