PCalc 2.8
Dr. Drang: A calculator isn’t necessarily the best tool for complicated analyses, but sometimes it’s the best tool that’s readily available. Because PCalc is in my phone, its capabilities—whatever they...
View ArticleEntering Fractions in PCalc
Dr. Drang: PCalc’s decimal point key changes to Frac when the 2nd key is active. This allows you to enter fractions and mixed numbers directly. The calculations aren’t done as fractions—PCalc converts...
View ArticlePCalc Construction Set
Dr. Drang: With version 3.3 of PCalc, James Thomson has gone Espinosa one better: he’s not only built a customizable PCalc, he’s given all of us the power of Steve Jobs. […] To edit a button, press and...
View ArticleApple Features Then Forbids PCalc Widget
James Thomson: Apple has told me that Notification Center widgets on iOS cannot perform any calculations, and the current PCalc widget must be removed. and: I would be allowed to make a widget that let...
View ArticlePCalc Piracy
Filip Truta interviews James Thomson: You recently said on Twitter (I quote), “according to my stats, around 70% of the copies of PCalc on iOS are pirated.” That’s a staggering number! Especially for a...
View ArticleOut of Touch
Ole Begemann: Apple’s remarkable track record of bad decisions in the past few months makes me wonder if management has completely lost touch with reality. The free U2 album. The push notification...
View ArticleWell Rounded
Dr. Drang: The problem with always rounding halves up is that in doing so, you introduce a persistent bias in whatever calculations you do with the rounded number. If you’re adding a list of rounded...
View ArticleIn-App Purchase Scams in the App Store
Johnny Lin (Hacker News, MacRumors): I scrolled down the list in the Productivity category and saw apps from well-known companies like Dropbox, Evernote, and Microsoft. That was to be expected. But...
View ArticleCongratulations
BBEdit (25 years) Daring Fireball (15 years) The Omni Group (25 years) PCalc (25 years) Update (2017-09-05) via Tech Pinscher: Default Folder (29 years) GraphicConverter (25 years) Update...
View ArticleThe Old Guard of Mac Indy Apps
Glenn Fleishman: The longevity of indie apps is more extraordinary when you consider the changes Apple put the Mac through from the early 1990s to 2018. Apple switched from Motorola 680x0 processors to...
View ArticleBringing iOS Apps to macOS Using Marzipanify
Steve Troughton-Smith: At WWDC 2018 Apple gave us a ‘sneak peek’ at perhaps one of the most impactful developments on macOS since the transition to Mac OS X: UIKit apps running on the desktop. Today,...
View ArticleAn Illustrated History of Easter Eggs
James Thomson: The video of my talk “An Illustrated History of Easter Eggs” is up. This was a lot of fun to put together! Lots of fun stuff here, from Atari, to the Finder, and later PCalc. Update...
View Article30 Years of PCalc
James Thomson (Mastodon): At around the same time, we’d started coding using THINK Pascal, and I had begun to explore the Macintosh programming APIs in my own time.[…]The Pascal core mathematics code...
View ArticleLaunch Day Apple Vision Pro Apps
Apple (Slashdot): More than 600 apps and games designed to take advantage of the unique and powerful capabilities of Apple Vision Pro will be available this Friday, February 2. […] Apps built...
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