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Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by manuelmoreale »

vzaliva wrote: post #153

It is nice but it could not beat the power of Wolfram Alpha. The way I use it is from Firefox: 1. Add Search Engine via https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wolfram-alpha... 2. Type = followed by expression in your address bar

I'll add to this—because WA is awesome—that if you're on Mac you can use Alfred (https://www.alfredapp.com) and Ask WA directly from your desktop and it will open the result on your default browser.

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by cvak »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #160
apazzolini wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're using OS X, try using Spotlight or Alfred directly (Keypirinha[0] is a reasonable Windows alternative) - just type in `1 + 2` and you get the answer without launching a special app. There are plugins for conversions as well. [0]. https://keypirinha.com/

I keep hearing about Alfred, and frankly I don't know why but I'm missing the reasons why so many people rave about it. I've tried it only once, a while ago, and perhaps I wasn't in the right mood to appreciate it. Does anyone here uses it, and can ELI5 to me why Alfred is so good?

My personal highlights from using it:

- you can control your whole machine with it, so I don't have to use mouse anymore for - sleep/shut down/volume/

- extra indexing for folders/documents/images

- web search in different sites (gmail/wiki/amazon,....)

- clipboard history

- snippets (ascii art for luls ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but most importantly I use this for script snippets I need to use in some UIs/ when I'm remote in some vim session in some server

- workflow - MS ToDo implementation, quick little things like switch off wifi, set dns to 1.1.1.1/unset, ...

- least but not last, never had a problem with db update beeing stuck on indexing and taking 150% CPU like with spotlight

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by argvargc »

Razengan wrote: post #157
kebman wrote: post #140

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Why not. I use Chrome to make quick calculations all the time. Just Ctrl+N and 1+1, and the answer is posted. Then Ctrl+W, and/or Alt+Tab to Sublime or whatever. Then I continue with my life :)

On macOS, Cmd+Space and just do calculations in the Spotlight search bar.

Just a heads up that everything typed into Spotlight is sent to Apple.

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by argvargc »

coldtea wrote: post #78
layoutIfNeeded wrote: post #46

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I didn’t even know there’s a calculator app on macOS. I simply write formulas into Spotlight, and if I need history or variables or anything serious I launch an Octave prompt.

The built-in macOS calculator also has scientific and progamming modes, and even RPN. There's also Grapher, macOS built-in equation plotter.

The calculator also has clickable bits in programming mode. Can be handy.

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by DevoidSimo »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #160
apazzolini wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're using OS X, try using Spotlight or Alfred directly (Keypirinha[0] is a reasonable Windows alternative) - just type in `1 + 2` and you get the answer without launching a special app. There are plugins for conversions as well. [0]. https://keypirinha.com/

I keep hearing about Alfred, and frankly I don't know why but I'm missing the reasons why so many people rave about it. I've tried it only once, a while ago, and perhaps I wasn't in the right mood to appreciate it. Does anyone here uses it, and can ELI5 to me why Alfred is so good?

Mainly the fact it's extensible. If you have something you do commonly do you can set up a shortcut for it. I use it a lot at work for quickly jumping to specific pages of internal websites, or converting hex codes to decimal. It also replaces spotlight.

Some examples that you can just install without writing your own: https://www.alfredapp.com/workflows/

Re: Numi – Calculator app for Mac

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Post by davidgl »

reid wrote: post #3

Soulver is a similar app for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS with shared documents in iCloud Drive. Check it out if you’re looking for something like this to go!

Another good one is http://calca.io, very like Soulver but also has simple graphing, runs on mac, iOS and Windows
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