New TipKalc, KolorWheel widgets for iPod

macnn ^ | Tuesday, March 20th

[martin_fierro]

New TipKalc, KolorWheel widgets for iPod

Koloroo today announced the release of the first widgets that run on any iPod with a color screen. TipKalc is an easy-to-use tip calculator with instant check-splitter.

"Just spin your iPod's Click Wheel until your bill amount is displayed in the center of the screen. Everything else is automatically calculated for you. It calculates recommended 15% and 20% tip amounts, grand totals, and even splits the check up to five ways."

KolorWheel is a color utility that provides scientifically formulated color schemes to match a web page, home decor, shirt or outfit, etc.

Both widgets can be loaded onto an iPod from either a PC or Mac and are available at an introductory download price of $5 and $8, respectively: "You select a base color by moving your thumb over the iPod Click Wheel. A suggested color scheme is automatically displayed in the four corners. If you prefer to match your base color to a particular object, you hold your iPod next to it. Again, a suggested color scheme will be automatically displayed in the corners."

[martin_fierro]

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[SamAdams76]

Figuring out tips are easy. Take your bill, knock off a decimal point and then double it.

Therefore, a $84 tab becomes $8.40 and then $16.80.

[martin_fierro]

Well pardon US, Robert Oppenheimer!

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[aft_lizard]

Heck my cell phone comes with a tip calculator free, no need to waste money on one for the pod.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Figuring out tips are easy. Take your bill, knock off a decimal point and then double it.<<<

I do that on the amount of the bill BEFORE taxes... :)

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

It is kind of stunning, the poor state of education when it comes to simple math in the U.S. An excruciatingly difficult one for many - 15%. Move the decimal one place than add half of that back to it. Therefore a 15% tip on $100 = $10 + $10/2 = $15

Isn't there a Barbie doll that says "Math is hard."

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Job security: Become an engineer, physicist, or any other profession in science and don't teach kids how to do basic math because they have calculators on their electronic toys. Of course that's a recipe for becoming a third rate country as well once the thinking people die out.

[Dick Vomer]

she thinks that math is hard.....but math class is easy...

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

She's going for the A...