Xchange R8 is a simple currency convertor. You can choose 3 currencies to be displayed and for the time being you have two WebServices available: Bank of Romania and Bank of England. Bank of England currency are accessed via the Export Technologies WebService. The author is willing to add other WebServices to the list if you can provide him with their address.

You need of course an Internet connection.For Bank of Romania you can choose to see the currencies as they were at a certain date. Before you ask, chosing a date in the future will alas not work. The Export Technologies service does not have this function though, and when working with the Bank of England this choice will be unavailable.The program remembers the last downloaded values for each service. Please note that the Export Technologies service (for Bank of England) is slow – an update can take up to a minute. Bank of Hungary does not update the service daily. Therefore, after you press Download, you may see a different date than today appearing at the top: this is the date of the last update. Furthermore, because of this, when you use the calendar to choose a date, you may get the message “No data available for the chosen date!”. Simply choose another date. Hint: they don’t update during weekends.

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Xchange R8 is a simple currency convertor. You can choose 3 currencies to be displayed and for the time being you have two WebServices available: Bank of Romania and Bank of England. Bank of England currency are accessed via the Export Technologies WebService. The author is willing to add other WebServices to the list if you can provide him with their address.

You need of course an Internet connection.For Bank of Romania you can choose to see the currencies as they were at a certain date. Before you ask, chosing a date in the future will alas not work. The Export Technologies service does not have this function though, and when working with the Bank of England this choice will be unavailable.The program remembers the last downloaded values for each service. Please note that the Export Technologies service (for Bank of England) is slow – an update can take up to a minute. Bank of Hungary does not update the service daily. Therefore, after you press Download, you may see a different date than today appearing at the top: this is the date of the last update. Furthermore, because of this, when you use the calendar to choose a date, you may get the message “No data available for the chosen date!”. Simply choose another date. Hint: they don’t update during weekends.

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All of us would have been in situations when you wanted to quickly check some conversion be it celsius to fahrenheit or km/h to miles/hr. Handy Converter from is an all-in-one unit conversion solution for Windows Mobile Pocket PC and to top it off its got an Currency Converter that you can update on the go either by GPRs, Wi-Fi or when the device is connected via ActiveSync.

Features :

1. supports conversion between 57 major currencies
2. Exchange rates updated from Bank of Canada
3. GUI user friendly interface
4. Multiple language support
5. Conversion types supported

• temperature
• length
• weight
• area
• volume
• speed
• power
• torque
• size ( Clothes / Shoes )

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Xchange R8 is a simple currency convertor. You can choose 3 currencies to be displayed and for the time being you have two WebServices available: Bank of Romania and Bank of England. Bank of England currency are accessed via the Export Technologies WebService.

The author is willing to add other WebServices to the list if you can provide him with their address.

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