MacHouse

   Last updated: December 02, 2009

1. Indemnity

MacHouse does not guarantee in any way that UConvert properly runs on any terminal that meets system requirements. MacHouse will not take responsibility for any damage that its software may cause. MacHouse does not guarantee that its software program produces correct numbers free of errors.

2. Distribution

MacHouse is the sole distributor of UConvert. No other party is allowed to distribute or redistribute this software program without written consent from the software company.

3. Installing UConvert

In order to use UConvert, it'll be better for you to create a folder with any name at first.  Then put a copy of UConvert in it.

4. Uninstalling UConvert

When you launch UConvert, the application will create a folder named UConvert. For Mac OS, the path is Users/User/Documents/ inside the volume of the operating system that is currently running. The easiest way of finding it is to open Preferences and switch to tabs to System files. Then click on Open. Go up by one level and delete UConvert as well as the application icon itself. For Windows OS, the path is C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\UConvert\. You can find the system folder by selecting Preferences under Help.

5. Using UConvert

When you first launch UConvert, the first thing that you should look at is the listbox to the left.  This listbox contains about a dozen names.  If you just select and click on one of them, nothing will happen.  Instead, double-click on any of them.  And two listboxes to the right will be filled with names of measurement units.

Now, choose the original unit and final units.  If you just want to know how many meters make 1 kilometer, first double-click on 'Distance/Length.'  Then choose 'Kilometers' from the original unit listbox and 'Meters' from the final unit listbox.  If you now press the Convert button, the conversion ratio will be displayed in the text box below 'Conversion result.'  And an input value of 1 will be automatically inserted.

Next, let's suppose that you know the exact distance of the marathon is 42.195 and that you want to know an equivalent distance in terms of miles or feet.  Then select 'Kilometers' from the original unit listbox and then enter an input value of 42.195.  Also, choose 'Feet' or 'Miles' from the final unit listbox.  If you then press the Convert button, a correct number should be displayed in the text box below 'Conversion result.'

Next, let's switch fields of units to 'Mountains & Trenches (Length).'  This field is a little bit different from Distance/Length.  You now see a list of mountains and ocean trenches in the listbox, which was labeled as original unit earlier.  Now, you can find out the height or depth of these geological features in terms of meters, kilometers, inches, feet, yards, miles or light years.

Let's also look at 'Currency.'  UConvert deals with seven foreign exchanges with the U.S. dollar as basis.  That means there are six foreign exchange rates involved.  Let's suppose that you are interested in buying a shareware license for US$39.95.  And you wish to know how much it is in terms of euros, which you use in your home country.  Then choose 'U.S. dollar' and 'Euro' from the unit listboxes.  Then enter an input value of 39.95.  Instead of pressing the Convert button, you can also press the Return key to exercise conversion.

Now, let's take a closer look at the result.  We have just found out that the license price of a shareware program is about 28.3 Euros.  What's the other number shown below it?  It's the reciprocal value.  The exchange rate between two currencies can be denoted in two different ways.  The same currency can go to the numerator or denominator.  For example, the exchange rate between the U.S. dollar and the Japanese yen is customarily denoted as Yen/USD, but not always.  The Japanese yen goes to the numerator.  That's because the nominal value of the Japanese yen is a lot higher than that of the U.S. dollar.  The current exchange rate is about 94 yen for a dollar.  Its reciprocal value is about 0.010638.  As is often the case, an exchange rate can be smaller than 1.  In such case, it will be easier to handle if the numerator and denominator are flipped.