[APP] MiniWord, MiniExcel, Voice, MeasuresConverter

[kiwiguy]

Source files for following 4 apps:

• MeasuresConverter - useful utility for converting measurements - feet to metres, gallons to litres, etc
  Download: get from Motorolafans Downloads section.

• MiniExel - a spreadsheet program for your A1200. It is called miniExcel - but can not read MS Excel files!. It can only read/update spreadsheets created on the phone using this app.
  Download: get from Motorolafans Downloads.

• MiniWord- a program that only half works on the A1200 as it only lets you read Word docs, not edit them! I think the Viewer app that comes with the phone is easier to use.
  Download: get from Motorolafans Downloads.

• Voice - a talking color identifier - with the app running you can point the camera of your phone at something and and the app will identify the color of the thing you are pointing at and speak it out loud. (Not terribly useful - but shows the potential of what this phone can do - and is kind of fun!)
  
  Note: Once you have installed it on the phone you have do the following:
  1. hold the stylus on the app's icon until the popup menu appears
  2. select Manage --> Permissions
  3. set "Multimedia recording" to "Ask once per application".
  Download:: get from www.seeingwithsound.com.

[Michl]

Hope this is the right place for this. The MeasuresConverter seems
to have little bugs in the Distance conversions. For example
entering miles does not convert to anything except picometers and
nanometers, feet is odd == it will do 100 but not 1000 or 800.

Thanks,
Michl

[booroondook]

MeasuresConverter makes big mistakes.
Example: 10 meters per second = 36 kilometers per hour
But MeasuresConverter shows... 10 m/s = 35.999712000230 km/h

[kiwiguy]

Thanks for raising thoese bugs - though I am not sure if I would classify being off by .0003 km/hr as a big mistake! I tried a few online converters to see what they came up with and most of them divided m/s by .278 - which came up with 35.97122 - so I guess it depends on the level of accuracy you are requiring.

Anyway I have added warning to FAQ sticky writeup about both your points.

[etherea]

The Voice apps is fairly nice, installed easily and follow the directions given by kiwiguy.
It asks to press * for speech but.. what do I have to press? There's no way the keypad comes on and don't know any shortcut.
Hint?

[kiwiguy]

It asks to press * for speech but.. what do I have to press?

See if the instructions in this thread helps you - you should be having to press * anywhere

[dreis123]

HI, somehow mi word and exel aren´t working anymore, but i still have the icons of the programs in my menu screem, so I don´t know how to get them back. should I reintalled it?? please help me, I really need this programs.