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- and save 1460.00 dollar!
ZD's Annual Award - great! Software for Travelers. Great? Great - if you don't care about paying 40 dollar for a software program when you can get better programs for FREE!. The winning software of this prestigious award is called TravelJack and is not a bad program - not bad at all. So why do I bother to "kill" a program made for travel as much as Nancy Sinatra's Boots once Were Made For Walkin'?
Fact is that what bothers me with TravelJack, is, as an example, that it boast about its ability to convert between different currencies. Not that it can't convert, but if you travel to Kenya - this award program will not be able to tell you that 2340 Kenyan Shilling are 31.56 US$. Important? If you are travelling to Kenya - yes! TravelJack is also not able to help you in Malta, Tunisia, Monaco, Columbia, Ecuador, San Marino, Latvia, Peru, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Oman and a lot of other countries. Or is it I that just got it wrong - are Malta or Monaco suddenly countries nobody travels to? Fact is that while TravelJack lists only 69 currencies - another software called The Free Currency Converter made by Alex Belgraver - gives you more than 220 currencies, and if you miss a currency - you need only to send a mail to Alex, and most likely you will find your needed currency in the next version. I know it works, as I did so myself - my wish was positively granted and is included in today's version (-: Another important tool embedded in TravelJack is "measurement conversion" (I myself always wonder how long a mile is - in kilometres...). TravelJack converts between different volumes, length, area, weight or temperature measurements. All well, but Joshua F. Madison's program "Convert" does the same plus converting different speed values, time, dry volume (not only liquid volume), energy, flow, force, light, mass, power, acceleration, angle, computer terms, concentration, density. You never know what you need when you are out traveling! And if it's something you need converted which Joshua never has heard about - well then his program has a tab called "custom" where you fill in whatever you need. The "ever ending" converter, I may say... So what's TravelJack doing more?
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