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We sent 1.1 out for Apple’s approval yesterday. As usual we have no control as to when/if Apple approves but we’re hoping for early next week. Follow us on twitter for up to the minute info on new releases. Read on for the obvious and not so obvious changes coming with 1.1.

Enable/Disable Categories and Units

The biggest change for 1.1 is the ability to enable or disable individual categories and units. Just go into settings and you can customize Convertbot to only show the units you are interested in.

More Categories and Units

We built Converbot with an eye towards supporting a large number of categories and units. While we may not get every single thing in that someone requests, we do plan to aggressively add new units. Because of the new ability to enable and disable we now support over 100 different currencies and a number of new categories. Click here for an up to date list of new categories and units added to 1.1.

OK

OK, OK, OK we’ve heard a lot of requests to get rid of the need to click the OK button. Well the OK button is still there and can be used exactly the same as before, but you can now touch the From/To/LCD buttons without having to touch OK first. Convertbot will behave exactly the same as if you had touched OK and then whatever button you touched.

Increased button hit area

File this under a non obvious change, the hit area for the keypad buttons has been expanded. This should make it a bit easier to hit numbers on the keypad. The buttons still look the same, you are just now able to touch slightly outside of them and still have it registered. In the below image you can see the hit area as the red areas around the button.

Increased conversion accuracy

Not sure if anyone will notice this one but I tweaked the low level code that does conversion to use the NSDecimalNumber class instead of the good old double. This means that conversions should be more accurate then ever, though this is somewhat hard to notice in day to day usage.

Coming up next

Over the next few weeks we are going to spend some time on Weightbot (cleaning up the graphs and adding the long awaited data forecast view). While we are doing that please continue to send in your requests for new categories and units, we’re at a point now where we can add them in fairly easily so expect to see many new Converbot releases. Depending on how Weightbot work comes along we’ll probably also start doing some localization of Convertbot. I think we’ll start with German, French and Japanese and take it from there. Finally expect a really cool new announcement from us over the next couple weeks. I think it’ll make everyone happy, I know Mark and I are thrilled about it.