Hey Buddy, Can You Spare a Euro (or Peso or Yen)?
If you ever travel abroad, you know what a hassle it is to figure how much that miniature Leaning 
Tower of Pisa or sombrero or German beer stein costs. You know the exchange rate (at least you did a few days ago), but it’s hard to do the math in your head when it’s 1. 83 Deutsche Marks to US$1. You try to round up or round down. You’re not sure whether to multiple or divide, or which goes in the numerator and which in the denominator.
Well, let me introduce you to CurrencyConv from Vicott Wong. This great little app does all the work for you. You choose the currencies you’re interested in (up to three). CurrencyConv downloads the latest currency rates (not sure where from). Then all you do is input the amount and out pops the accurate amount in good old US dollars (or whatever currency you want; the list is very long). So now you can be totally confident that the genuine (really) Chinese tea set that Grandma would love is only $3 instead of $300.
And while you’re at it, check out his other useful apps, including ClearTemp (frees up storage space on your internal memory and UITweaker (customize colors in WM)
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drjim Hey Shyloh, I’m glad you like it. I wasn’t sure anyone would find it useful.
What do you mean by travel apps? What are your specific needs? You might check out the Travel page of freewareppc.com:
Sweet! I’m heading to Europe in 3 weeks. This should help out ALOT. I’ve been monitoring different currencies lately, and the conversion shifts daily (especially with the British Pound & Euro). This should be a very helpful tool.
Thanks for the heads up Dr. JT!
If anyone knows of decent working travel apps, please shoot me and email. Thanks! I’ve tried SPB traveler, (I really enjoyed it’s phrase book), but I’d really like to try something else as well.