FEATURES
Absolute free software
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This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software
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Free of charge
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Free of registration
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Free of any limitations
Runs anywhere
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The application is platform independent, it is written entirely
in Java and you can run it on all common operating systems with a Java
Runtime Environment (JRE), such as Windows (95/98/ME/2000/2003/NT/XP),
Linux (Debian, BSD, Red Hat, SuSe, JDS, Mandrake, etc.), Unix (Mac OS X,
Solaris sparc, Solaris x86) or OS/2, etc. Get the latest JRE from www.java.com
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Keeps compatibility with J2SE 1.3, but takes all the advantages
of 1.4.2 or 1.5 if available
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Can be run in multi-user-environments
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The installer creates shortcuts under Windows
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A desktop file is available for Gnome and KDE users
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Behaves like a native Apple application under Mac OS X
Highest precision
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Unlimited precision before the comma (e. g. 1 Yottabyte = 9671406556917033397649408
Bit)
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Decimal precision up to 1000 after the comma (e. g. 1 m = 39.370078740157480314960629921259842519685039...
inches)
Tons of categories and units
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A unit converter which supports more than 3200 units in 81 categories:
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Standard physical units of all popular categories (a-z) are supported
(angle, counting, length, area, volume, time, temperatures, forces, pressure,
frequency, velocity, acceleration, loudness, refraction, si prefixes, data
storage, data transfer, screen resolution, electric current, electric density,
electric voltage, electric field strength, electric flux density, agility
of electrons, electric resistance, electric charge, conductance, capacitance,
energy, irradiation, energy density per volume, energy density, heat capacity,
entropy, luminous intensity, luminance, luminous flux, illuminance, exposure,
luminous flux per radiant flux, power, power per area, power per volume,
power per mass, mass, mass per time, mass proportion, mass concentration,
density, mass density, magnetic flux, magnetic field strength, magnetic
flux density, inductance, ionizing radiations, specific activity, stereo
angle, absorbed dose, exposure, amout of substance, proportion of subtance,
dynamic viscosity, kinematic viscosity, proportion of volume, volumetric
flow, specific volue, hardness of water)
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Roman numbers
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35 radixes (radix 2 - 36), including dual, octal and hex
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Exchange rates, update them over the net
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Historic Euroland conversions
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Converts Timezones from all over the world for any given date or
time
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It speaks numbers in 22 languages literally and via audio*
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International dial codes to and from all countries
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Alphanumerical phonenumbers
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Calendar-Calculations (Day of week, week of year, Sun signes, etc.,
more than 90 international legal and non legal holidays from the US, Germany
and Swiss)
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Colorcodes
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Unicodes
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Static Tables (cloth sizes, natural tables)
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Phonetic alphabets, including both international and national alphabets,
NATO/ICAO and Morse
Highly customizable and intuitive Graphical user interface
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Modern GUI
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It's both internationalized and localized, language support for
english, german, french, spanish and portuguese
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It supports Unicode
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The GUI is resizable and positionable to save space on your
screen
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Five views are supported, so you can hide GUI components you don't
want to see to save space on your screen
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Several Look and Feels and themes are supported, just a real chameleon
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There are images for both categories and units (there are pixmaps
available for 241 countries!)
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Right click popup-menus for faster navigation
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Tooltips for all important components
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Disable tooltips if you don't like them
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Online-Help
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The best: you have unlimited permission for adding, modifying, hiding
and deleting ALL categories, units, icons, filters and themes
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Easy input
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While typing values you see the result of the calculation immediately
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Increase or decrease input values with one mouseclick
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There is a graphical user interfaces to pick a Color, supporting
the mit HSB- and RBG-model
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There is a graphical user interfaces to pick a Date easily
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Build-in editor with undo and redo functions for making notices
and save conversions in several formats
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Easy navigation
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Filter for categories are supported, so you can hide categories
you don't want to see
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Favorites/Bookmarks are supported for accessing units much quicker
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Search for units and categories
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Customizable output
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You can choose the format for the results
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You can define your own formats
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A step controlled unit list can be generated for one, a few or all
targets
Interfaces to other programs
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Update exchange rates with the graphical user interface or at the
command line with cronjobs (filter for 12 webservices are supported), you
can create your own exchange rate filters
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Export calculated data to your favorite Spreadsheet or word processing
application, like OpenOffice, StarOffice, Word, Excel, etc.
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Export international holidays to calendar formats for dtcm, Outlook
or iCalendar-compatible applications
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Load and save calculations in several formats (Text, HTML, Unicode UTF-8,
UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian are supported)
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Cut/copy/paste are supported to allow importing/exporting data to
and from other applications
Developer support
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All source codes are available
Ant-Script for developers