Comments on: Calcoolate - Ajax Calculator

By: Chirag Shukla

Chirag Shukla — Sat, 06 May 2006 04:53:22 +0000

AJAX (or just J) can intrigue a new user. One user thought the calculator was great and started clicking the buttons randomly and quickly causing the browser (IE) to go unresponsive. Had this been a form submission that would take a few milliseconds to load back up, the user would carefully click the buttons. AJAX gives the user the opportunity to do stupid things like keep on clicking log several times or click on random buttons hoping that AJAX/J will give results in a flash - well, sometimes response time is slow and then the user gets frustrated that his/her browser isnt working well (lol). See what I am saying?

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By: matpe

matpe — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 08:01:57 +0000

Noticed calcr.com a couple of minutes ago. Seems to do the same thing, but without the horrible colors.

By: Tiancai

Tiancai — Sat, 18 Mar 2006 02:02:51 +0000

Needs RPN!

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:59:00 +0000

Google’s calculator provides the same service (as well as the conversion and the exchange rates).

Moreover, every computer connected to the internet (at least linux/windows, dunno for Macs) and accessing this site have also access to a calculator program which will be faster, …

As pointed in http://www.codinghorror.com/bl.....00440.html there is a need for a better calculator. So they might find a niche here, but nothing interesting for a rather large majority of people.

By: Bill nadraszky

Bill nadraszky — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:50:50 +0000

I actually just use google if I need a quick calculator. Or (gasp) type calc into the address bar in my windows taskbar.

By: Devang

Devang — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 09:31:45 +0000

RPN anyone?

By: riccardo

riccardo — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:29:55 +0000

I’m using it daily at work.

Faster than Windows Calc, recording of calculations, click on operation and result brings them to the input box 8good for mistaekes and for sequential calculations), always open in Firefox tab.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:58:18 +0000

I think the comments are a bit harsh. Sure, the calculator is not the coolest new kid on the block and does not have the sex appeal that a site like, say, 30boxes.com does. But still, nice, clean apps like this can be great if they were incorporated into something like, say, goowy.com’s online desktop.

By: Simen

Simen — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 23:16:19 +0000

Javascript calculators have been around as long as Javascript. There are probably more Javascript calculators out there than there are blog posts that include the phrase ‘Web 2.0′. What makes this newsworthy?

By: Bob Aman

Bob Aman — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 18:21:44 +0000

If it were able to answer this one correctly:

e^(pi*sqrt(-1))

Then I might’ve admitted that the service was worthy of notice. But seriously, this is a novelty site with lousy page design (apologies to the creator as they probably put some effort into it) that can’t do anything a simple calculator destop widget thing can’t do better. What’s the point if TechCrunch posts about every single site that gets suggested? Next thing you know, pretty looking personal webpages will be being reviewed and the signal to noise ratio will be rediculous, even deafening.

By: john

john — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:33:49 +0000

techcrunch has now officially jumped the shark.

By: Quell

Quell — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 06:06:52 +0000

Hrm, this is probably an interesting new idea. Someone should have thought of this a while ago.

By: Les

Les — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 05:43:12 +0000

16 cups = 1.0010215894127568 gallon (US)- most helpful.

By: Ebrahim

Ebrahim — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 02:27:08 +0000

Excellent stuff. Really Helpful.

By: luc

luc — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:26:37 +0000

“This won’t be a $30 million Google acquisition, but its a cool tool that some people might find useful.”

This reminded me the question of “how much did Writely cost to Google?”

By: Saul Weiner

Saul Weiner — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:00:21 +0000

What does this give you that your windows calc or an online speardsheet doesn’t - history?

Is that enough to make me use it. probably not.

By: web20guy

web20guy — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 00:40:10 +0000

Mike, will you use it?

By: Travis

Travis — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:42:44 +0000

I really think that the best feature on this site are the conversions. I honestly doubt I would ever make the effort to change my calculator, because this doesn’t really offer any new features.

So I would suggest to calcoolate that they make the conversions the highlight of the site. I constantly convert measurments and money, to me that is a very useful feature.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 23:12:53 +0000

resounding the same opinions above…hope u guys are listening and aim to protect the last remaining parts of your credibility with your audiences, else it will disappear as soon as it got built.

By: anon

anon — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:35:28 +0000

ouch…do you really think this is worth featuring on techcrunch? I really hope u start writing about some strong companies with some clear market opportunities

By: Andy Kim

Andy Kim — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:34:52 +0000

I enjoy discovering most of the companies featured here. I applaud the editors for their fine job.

That said, today I’m very surprised to see Calcoolate here. Technically, it is not even AJAX, because the entire thing is Javascript—it only does the “J” part of AJAX. Not to say that it should use asynchronous XMLHttpRequest calls because that would be absolutely unnecessary for calculating 1+1. These are the sorts of tasks that are much better suited for desktop applications because the task requires no external data*. Now, it would be a totally different thing if Calcoolate somehow leveraged the network effect to build a better calculator. Just being a “webapp”, doesn’t make it better.

Please don’t let a slow news day bring down the quality of the site.

* Except currency conversion, but that is not the main point of Calcoolate

By: Wisam Daoud

Wisam Daoud — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:20:07 +0000

The functionality is cool, but the user interface can use a little work. I dislike all the distracting advertising all over these new sites (which no one ever click on any ways.) People need to get a little more creative in finding ways to make money. At least design sites, to have advertising in a less intrusive manner. TechCrunch is a good example