Posts tagged ‘pcalc’
PCalc 2.4.1
August 5th, 2011 at 11:50 pm by Dr. Drang
A new version of PCalc hit the App Store today. The new feature is support for hardware keyboards, which I’m sure is a big improvement for a certain class of user. I don’t happen to be in that class—no iPad, no hardware keyboard—but because it’s been a year since my last PCalc post and there’ve…
PCalc 2.2
July 30th, 2010 at 7:51 am by Dr. Drang
PCalc 2.2 for the iPhone just appeared in the App Store. It’s not a big upgrade, but it does have a few new features I like. First is a new theme, called Flynn. I can’t imagine myself ever using it, but it’s definitely fun. I’m thinking James Thomson should have timed the release of this…
PCalc 2.1 resolution
June 26th, 2010 at 3:35 pm by Dr. Drang
James Thomson sent out new betas of PCalc 2.1 last night so those of us with new iPhone 4’s could use it. As I said yesterday, version 2.0.1 was built for the pre-4 display and while it looked great on a 3GS or earlier, it had an interesting mix of sharp text and fuzzy graphics…
PCalc 2.0’s resolution mix
June 25th, 2010 at 2:41 pm by Dr. Drang
A week ago, James Thomson sent out a beta of PCalc 2.1 for iPhone to his testers. It’s the “Retinal” version of PCalc, with the graphics redrawn to take advantage of the higher resolution of the iPhone 4’s screen. At the time, I had no use for the higher-res graphics, but I downloaded and installed…
PCalc and conversions
March 17th, 2010 at 10:12 pm by Dr. Drang
A new version of PCalc for the iPhone has appeared in the App Store. The big new feature in version 1.9.2 is currency conversions, with the rates downloaded from the European Central Bank. While beta testing this new version, I realized that for all my blogging about PCalc, I’d never spent any time on its…
