By Jason Perlow
If you're a frequent world traveler, going on a trip to a foreign land, or work with foreign currencies a lot, then Conversions In Hand, shown in Figure A, should prove to be a godsend.
FIGURE A
Just tap and convert your way from one unit to another. (click for larger image)
Conversions In Hand supports over 200 types of conversions including weights and measures. Plus, it has a built-in calculator. With point and tap ease, it's simple to change miles to kilometers, gallons to liters, US dollars to French francs or German marks, Italian liras, Japanese yen, or even European Currency Units -- whatever you are trying to calculate.
Update using Mobile Channels
What's ingenious about this currency calculator is that current exchange information can be downloaded into it using a Mobile Channel (which requires using the free Microsoft Mobile Channel viewer on H/PC's). This way, you can be sure you're up to date with the latest exchange rates, provided that you have a desktop PC to sync with.
Easy customization
If you go back and forth to a certain country often or live in a nation where you have to commonly convert to another currency (say, the US Dollar), you can customize the conversion tab layout to place your frequently used conversion types into the most easily accessible location.
Jason Perlow is Senior Technical Editor with Windows CE Power. When he's not scouring the Web for great Windows CE utilities and programs, he can be reached at perlow@hotmail.com.
