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Currency Converter 1.9

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Paolo Grifantini

Currency Converter is a very useful widget to easily calculate currency conversions between more than 200 world currencies (I think every traded currency in the world, more than any other converter available!), including all the old legacy european currencies, some world legacy currencies too, and even virtual and unrecognized currencies! Support interface themes, inverse currency conversion & expressions evaluation.

What's New

Version 1.9:

Now compatible with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion
Various fixes

Note: This release of the widget no longer supports PowerPC Macs. Version 1.8 that does support PPC can be downloaded above.

Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.7 or later

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Currency Converter User Discussion (Write a Review)

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-17

1984x reviewed on 05 Apr 2012

I have used this widget for about 6 years. It's great. Make sure you include gold ounces as one one your currencies, as a daily reminder of the speed our overlords are debasing our money.

I also use the iPhone widget.

[Version 1.9]

+53

Nymphe reviewed on 04 Apr 2012

Must have widget. It should be included with the OS X.

The only thing I rarely see is that sometimes it "lags". What I mean is, I open dashboard, try to enter an amount, but the letters are entered very very slowly. It doesn't have any effect to the calculation however.

Maybe it is fixed on 1.9, I couldn't test it until now.

[Version 1.9]

+20

Winco reviewed on 03 Apr 2012

Excellent! The iPhone / iPad version is great too. Well worth the minor investment.

[Version 1.9]

+20

Amergin reviewed on 29 Nov 2011

Use this whenever I need to convert from dollars to euro fast - stopped working last week so checked for a new version on macupdate - downloaded today and sorted! Many thanks to the developer for this great software.

[Version 1.8]

+38

Mhoutman reviewed on 03 Mar 2011

simply the best widget for currency converting. Also available as iPhone app :)

[Version 1.7]

Edmundrush commented on 01 Jun 2010

I have enjoyed having Currency Converter for quite a while now. But I'm reluctant to install the latest version, called Convertitore Valute. If the developer failed to convert his Italian name into English, what else did he forget?

[Version 1.5.2]

1 Reply

+118

Revco replied on 02 Jun 2010

I've not had any problem with v.1.5.2. You can just rename Convertitore Valute to Currency Converter if you like.

Mayerjs1 commented on 08 Feb 2010

When I download this and unzip it, the name of the widget has apparently changed to 'Convertitore Valute'. Is this correct?

[Version 1.5.1]

-1

Hamiltonpaul commented on 15 Nov 2009

Currency Converter works well; but, every time I use it, it requires a new "update". This gets very annoying after a while - as I now have a dozen of these previous versions of the widget on my hard-drive. . .

Paul Hamilton

[Version 1.5]

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+10

Chloe commented on 21 Dec 2009

You don't have to update if you prefer not to. It's optional.

And if u do update, just delete the previous versions that remain on your hard drive, or better yet, replace the old version with the new/latest one you just downloaded.

Timbo13 commented on 26 Sep 2009

Do you mean Chinese Yuan (CNY)?

[Version 1.4.1]

+38

magosilvan reviewed on 24 Mar 2009

Estremamente pratico, semplice all'uso, facilmente configurabile e frequentemente aggiornato. Insuperabile anche nel prezzo.
Grazie Paolo!

[Version 1.2.1]

-1

mileslong had trouble on 17 Sep 2009

Am I missing something? I can't find the Chinese RMB anywhere on the list...

[Version 1.4]

boomshanka had trouble on 09 Jun 2009

Seems to be an overflow somewhere: today £1 = -158.39 Zimbabwe Dollars - that's probably not right :)

[Version 1.3.1]

Atomrocker had trouble on 13 Mar 2009

OMG, I said it's cool but something went wrong with the new version. Or it's a temporary difficulty I don't know. It doesn't convert the Second Life Linden... :(

[Version 1.2.1]

bestlaw had trouble on 12 Mar 2009

Sometimes cpu usage of dashboardclient in activity monitor rose to 92%!
Where can i download the previous version?

[Version 1.2]

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bestlaw commented on 12 Mar 2009

After I click the refresh icon at the bottom left hand side,
cpu usage of dashboardclient rises up to 9x%.

I open console and it shows:

12/03/09 6:42:17 PM DashboardClient[1439] JavaScript says: missing ecb currency on: ecb_INR

12/03/09 6:42:17 PM [0x0-0x8008].com.apple.dock[168] 2009-03-12 18:42:17.412 DashboardClient[1439:10b] JavaScript says: missing ecb currency on: ecb_INR

Roro01 had trouble on 21 Dec 2006

THERE IS A BUG IN IT! Safari quit unexpectedly & after re-launch got an alert - "Safari settings have been changed. Do you want to use new settings?"

Also the same thing that COMPUTERNAUT describes below happened to me.

[Version 0.4.5]

2 Replies

Palple'S Software (developer) replied on 22 Dec 2006

I don't know about Safari crashing, but I can surely say that this isn't due to my widget, since you are only downloading a zip file.

As regards the exclamation badge it's because due to a problem with my server and I noticed that yesterday you downloaded the old version of the widget (0.4.1) and not the new one.

Roro01 replied on 22 Dec 2006

I downloaded it again today and it's working. Thank you very much. I don't know why Safari crashed.

+121

hced had trouble on 25 Nov 2006

The "New version available" exclamation icon in the lower-left part of the widget resists in disappearing, even if I'm actually using the newest version right now.

[Version 0.4]

1 Reply

+18

Sajdak70 replied on 11 Jan 2007

The same problem. I hope in a correct future version without this confusing icon. In my opinion, that widget is excellent. To achieve 5 stars developers have to remove that annoying message. Thanks for good work - I see also Slovak koruna in a list of currencies. I didn't hope that is possible. :-)

+12

Aname had trouble on 09 Jul 2006

Now it's 99.9% perfect. Only thing missing, is the Euro currency in the ECB list. :-)

[Version 0.3.5]

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Palple'S Software (developer) replied on 09 Jul 2006

Well, the euro currency for the ecb list it's missing because it's the reference point of the ecb values, so it's the same as the other euro!

+12

Aname had trouble on 07 Jul 2006

Absolutely Great!! It works flawlessly.

But I have one question:

I was previously using Euro Assistant Pro X 2.6.8 (http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7265), but Euro Assistant and the Currency Converter showed different results for the same currencies. I did some research and gathered that it must be due to the fact that I've had Euro Assistant set to query the European Central Bank, whereas when I changed to Bank of Canada, both programs gave the exact same results.

So I'm wondering, is it possible for you to make a preference option, to chooce which bank to query? I'd prefer to keep using European Central Bank instead of Bank of Canada...

Here are the addresses for the 3 major banks:

European Central Bank: http://www.ecb.int/stats/exchange/eurofxref/html/index.en.html

Bank of Canada: http://www.bankofcanada.ca/fmd/exchange.html

International Monetary Fund: http://www.imf.org/external/np/fin/rates/rms_rep.cfm

[Version 0.3]

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palple commented on 07 Jul 2006

Thanks for your appreciation!

The currency data I use comes from the yahoo finance service, which is lively updated (with a 20 minutes delay).
The european bank data instead it's updated only once a day; I could create an option to use that data, but it would be inconsistent with the other world currencies data which comes from the yahoo service, so I don't know if it's a good thing.