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So I made this online calculator that lets you type in commands and equations

http://www.sapethemape.com/calc.html

I based it off of a Mac Widget Calculate I had that was AWESOME! Windows Sidebar Gagdet Calculatorium is also very good.  What I liked was it had history and it was more of a command line calculator than a typical button presser.  Instead of pressing buttons, you could enter mathmatical expressions and it would solve it.

For mine, you can hit up and down arrows to scroll through your input history, exape clears it, and if you hit + - * / it automatically enters answer (the previous answer); next I need to resize it… But I want to port it to AIR.  Except ActionScript doesn’t have an EVAL function. Javascript does.  Eval basically does all the work, parses the expression for me. There is a ? for help, just lists the JS Math function available.  A friend just pointed out 1^4 = 5, so I need to add parsing for that.

Then I want to make it for my G1.  I tested this version, but the keycodes for + - * / are different on the mobile keyboard because it wouldn’t automatically add ‘answer’.  If you want to help, you can add errors to the comments here.  Just view source for source code. Yes, you can steal it. But its prolly not worth stealing =P.

I noticed that the max upload allowed was really 100KB and not 100MB, so I fixed the calculations and also added an address location in the browser. Hopefully the next update will have some basic photo editing features, like cropping, brightness, contrast. Maybe even add a feature that will email the link to the group. I will have to get with Nick, but it would also be cool to upload directly to a group and do some more managing in the air app, like moving pictures from group to group, etc.

Here is the new version: katanapg-v101-beta.air.zip

I made a simple AIR app to upload pictures to my buddy’s online photo gallery, Katana Photo Groups.  The AIR app is very basic (first workign version released); but it does in fact work.  So this is what you do:

1. Select directory to upload pictures from. OR
2. Drag and Drop files onto app.
3. Slecect the pictures you would like to upload.
4. Login to KatanaPG.
5. Click upload to upload pictures.

The above order clearly isn’t set in stone, but it gives you a basic idea of how the application works.

After that your pictures will be uploaded into your Inbox. You will need to already have a KatanaPG account for this to work.

It uses FZip (Actionscript zipping library) to compress the images into a zip and then uploads the zip to Katana.  I hope to had some basic images editing, drag and drop support, and it also needs some optimization.

Here is the package: katanapgair.zip

You will need Adobe AIR to run this.

UPDATE:

Added drag and drop from the PC and also fixed some memory issues.