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Calq: quick calculator access for Mac or Windows
by Todd Ritter Mar 19th 2008 at 10:00AM
Calq is a free, lightweight, shortcut-key accessible calculator for both Mac OS X 10.4+ and Windows 2000/XP. The idea is to give you quick access to math functions without launching another program just to do simple calculations.Calq can run in your Mac menubar or Windows tray, but you can just have the program run in the background with no icons. You can select a hotkey to launch the calculator, and when you press that hotkey, the Calq window displays for you to enter your calculations.
The program has a few customizable options besides the hotkey combination like screen location of the calculator window, fade effect, and transparency.
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Max said 10:18AM on 3-19-2008
FWIW, in Leopard you can accomplish this with Spotlight alone. Just type in your operands.
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Todd Ritter said 10:27AM on 3-19-2008
Thanks Max. That is a great tip!
julian said 1:48AM on 3-20-2008
my thought exactly spotlight!
robotrock said 10:38AM on 3-19-2008
You can always enter a simple equation into your Google search bar as well.
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Jordan Running said 10:47AM on 3-19-2008
Definitely a good stand-alone tool, but Launchy has the same functionality, and if you're smart you're already using Launchy anyway. ;)
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chandler3224 said 11:14AM on 3-19-2008
But if you're smart, you won't need a calculator tool ;)
DigitalOldschool said 11:12AM on 3-19-2008
The idea is to give you quick access to math functions without launching another program just to do simple calculations.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Calq a program that is already running just to do simple calculations?
I have a hotkey already set up to run the built-in Windows calculator (Start -> 'R' -> 'CALC')
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Todd Ritter said 11:34AM on 3-19-2008
The part you quoted was to imply that calc.exe and calculator.app do many more things than most need on a day-to-day basis. So rather than launch a full-featured scientific calculator, one could use Calq to do quick things like add a few numbers since it's already running in the background.
Many of our readers use things like Launchy, Quicksilver, Spotlight to get fingertip access to services, so Calq may be a natural fit for them.
Obviously not 100% of computer users will find this application useful.
Alex M said 11:43AM on 3-19-2008
This is complementary to Jordan Running's comment.
If you are using humanized.com's (free!) Enso Launcher (for Windows only, for now), you already have this functionality.
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Mike said 4:00PM on 3-19-2008
You can do that in windows using launchy.
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edward said 8:09PM on 3-19-2008
I have a microsoft keyboard that has a calculator hotkey built in. Problem is there is no quick and simple way to close it. Hafta use alt-f4 id rathar hit the calc key again.
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