Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Productivity
eCalc offers new Windows desktop version
by Christina Clark Aug 25th 2008
Last month we told you about the new web calculator eCalc. Now you can not only use the calculator on the web, but also on yourWindows desktop. The download and install is extremely fast and simple - I had my calculator up an running in under 90 seconds. The calculator can be used by clicking numbers and functions with a mouse or using them on your keyboard. The only thing I found that threw me off was that using the equal sign on my keyboard did not work. I had to press enter instead.
The desktop version is always on top unless you minimize it and takes up a good chunk of the side of your screen. If you need a scientific calculator, pressing the scientific mode button on the desktop version takes you to the web calculator and its' scientific capabilities.
I hope this won't make me sound too old but I found it easier to use than the regular Windows calculator because of the bigger buttons. It also features a lot more functions beyond addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
