{"id":203,"date":"2009-01-23T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T17:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/?p=203"},"modified":"2009-01-23T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T17:29:23","slug":"pcalc-for-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/2009\/01\/23\/pcalc-for-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"PCalc for iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(L\u2019application n\u2019est pas localis\u00e9e \u00e0 ma connaissance, aussi je ne poste pas ce billet en fran\u00e7ais &#8211; mais je vais contacter l\u2019auteur pour lui faire la suggestion \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n<p>Now I usually don\u2018t post here too often about applications that are not in direct relationship with Office, but I thought I could make an exception \ud83d\ude09<br \/>\nI spend a lot of time at work crunching numbers in Excel or other applications (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphpad.com\/prism\/Prism.htm\">Prism<\/a> is my friend).<br \/>\nVery often, I just want to run a quick calculation. I used to be a heavy HP48 user, but my calculator dies a while ago and I learnt to live without it.<br \/>\nI recently got an iPod Touch I started looking for a decent scientific calculator that would also support the RPN notation.<\/p>\n<p>Well the search is over, I found it!<br \/>\nI first tried the lite version (free) then quickly migrated to the full, paid version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcalc.com\/\">PCalc<\/a>.<br \/>\nPCalc is developped by TLA Systems (they also make the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragthing.com\/\">DragThing<\/a>) offers all the functions I\u2019ve been looking for (and was updated today with even more goodness)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientific calculator<\/li>\n<li>RPN mode with two lines of text (I\u2019d love to be able to squeeze even more, bt I understand that it might not be really practical on the iPhone\/iPod Touch screen).<br \/>\nConversions, tons of conversions<\/li>\n<li>paper-tape mode (do all your calculations and have the app summarize the all thing as if you had been using a paper-tape printing calculator &#8211; very useful to summarize a long set or inter-related calculations)<\/li>\n<li>Themes (I like themes)<\/li>\n<li>octal, hexadecimal, etc calculations (I don\u2019t use this, but many people do)<\/li>\n<li><em>etc\u2026<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are like me and think that the built-in calculator is far too limited for your taste and are on the market for something like that, I encourage you to try the lite version first. Be careful, you might get hooked like me and get the full one ($9.99 \u2014\u00a0but well-worth it in my opinion).<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the author seems extremely active, responds quickly to suggestions (and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesthomson\">Tweets<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Now there is also a regular MacOS X version, but I can\u2019t comment on it since I haven\u2019t tried it (I use the iPod Touch all the times for these quick calculations)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(L\u2019application n\u2019est pas localis\u00e9e \u00e0 ma connaissance, aussi je ne poste pas ce billet en fran\u00e7ais &#8211; mais je vais contacter l\u2019auteur pour lui faire la suggestion \ud83d\ude09 ) Now I usually don\u2018t post here too often about applications that are not in direct relationship with Office, but I thought I could make an exception \ud83d\ude09 I spend a lot of time at work crunching numbers in Excel or other applications (Prism is my friend). Very often, I just want to run a quick calculation.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-third-partytiers","tag-pcalc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cortig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}