PCalc 2.2.1 is out, in both flavours. You can get them here.

This is just a small bug fix update, mainly to fix a problem in 2.2 with the key click sounds pausing background music, and also to fix an occasional crash in the conversions and constants.


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PCalc 2.2 is out now - it's available here.

PCalc Lite 2.2 should be out very shortly - it's still in the hands of Apple's reviewers, but I expect it will appear on the store in the next 24 hours.

Greetings, apps!

Aside from the awesome new glowing theme you can see above - ideal for low light situations and pretending to be Jeff Bridges - there are a number of new features, including lots of improvements to the unit conversions, a volume control for the key click sounds, and a wide variety of power user options.

The full list of new features is here.

Hope you enjoy this release, and please add an appropriately glowing review on iTunes if you do!

PCalc 3.6 for the Mac has now been released! You can get it here.

Notable enhancements include:

• Dozens of new unit conversions, including all the currency conversions from the iPhone/iPad version.
• A number of new functions including a mod operator.
• Two new stylish calculator themes.
• Various fixes, not least of which is that copy and paste in the Dashboard Widget is now finally working again!

The full list of changes is here.

This is a free upgrade for existing registered users of PCalc 2 or 3. Aren't I nice?

PCalc and PCalc Lite 2.1 have been released, you can get them both here.

Retina Scan

The main changes are support for iOS 4 including fast app switching, and also support for the high resolution Retina display on the iPhone 4. You can see the difference, just in the icons above.

And here is a screenshot showing how the "Flux" theme looks on a Retina display versus a regular display.

I think you can see there's quite a difference!

I'm currently investigating some reports of the PCalc splashscreen appearing occasionally when using fast app switching - I think I know what's happening, and I'm working on a fix. Basically, if you switch apps really fast (like in and out of an app in a few seconds), the OS doesn't have time to save a snapshot of the application's appearance on quit, and so it displays the default image while switching the app in again.

In PCalc's case, that's the splashscreen image, which isn't ideal. It's just cosmetic, as the switching takes exactly the same time, but it does look a bit like the app is being relaunched. I think in normal usage, it won't happen much, but I have some ideas to minimise it further.

Anyway, hope you like PCalc 2.1. If you do, please write a review in iTunes - it's most appreciated! Thanks.

DragThing 5.9.6 is now available on the download page. This is purely a bug fix release for a problem that stopped DragThing from opening at all on 10.6.4.

Nothing to do with Apple this time - it turns out that there was a really dumb bug in my minimum system version check which meant that DragThing would refuse to run on any OS release that ended in a four! So, for those of you running 10.5.4, DragThing will now work there too...

There is something else I should say - today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the original DragThing 1.0 release. It seems like it was only yesterday when I wrote the page for the tenth anniversary. That's a very long time in the software world! Thank you to everybody who's supported me over the years.

And yes, this would be the ideal moment to announce something big like DragThing 6, but I only just realised this morning that it was a significant date, and I'm not quite that fast :)

PCalc and PCalc Lite 2.0 are out a little earlier than expected, you can get them both here.

PCalc HD

What's new? Well, the short answer is native iPad support! The long answer will take a bit more time, as I haven't had a great deal of sleep this week :)

But basically, PCalc 2.0 is a universal app, with support for iPad and iPhone in one. What that also means is that if you've bought PCalc for iPhone, or any of the in-app purchases in PCalc Lite, they will transfer over to the iPad for free.

Additionally, since the iPad doesn't ship with a calculator, if you are looking for one on Saturday please give PCalc Lite a try and tell your friends...

More shortly!