Currency Assistant 3.0 preview

With version 3.0 - which we plan to release by mid-January 2009 - Euro Assistant Pro will become Currency Assistant. To introduce you our completely revised currency converter, here is a preview of its great new features and look.

Currency Assistant is Universal

Currency Assistant is a Universal application, running natively on both PowerPC-based and Intel-based Macs.

Currency Assistant requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later and is fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

New look and feel

Currency Assistant has a completely revised interface. Windows and dialogs have been redesigned to make them cleaner and easier to use. Converters have a Leopard look and feel.

Multiple converters

Currency Assistant lets you create and use as many conversion windows as you need. Each of them can contain up to 24 currencies and has its own tape in a drawer to log results.

Converters have an Action pop-up menu to quickly accomplish recurrent tasks and a Rate pop-up menu to view and copy rates, can be easily edited with the new Edit Converter dialog, allow you to move or copy displays and separators across different windows, and can be closed when you don't need them.

Currency management made simple

Currency Assistant comes with a brand new Currencies window listing 174 currencies (all major circulating currencies plus the 16 Eurozone legacy currencies) from which you can easily perform all currency management tasks: editing or restoring currencies, setting the base currency, automatically updating exchange rates and customizing the Add Currency and Switch Currency menus.

The Currencies window introduces currency groups and symbols and lets you sort, search, and batch edit currencies.

Customizable Add Currency and Switch Currency menus

In Currency Assistant the Add Currency and Switch Currency menus, available both in the menu bar and in the Action pop-up menu, let you instantly access frequently used currencies.

Currency Assistant allows you to fully customize these menus: you can choose which currencies must be displayed, add separators, arrange items manually or automatically group currencies and sort them by name, country, or ISO code.

Enhanced automatic rates update

Besides the European Central Bank, the Bank of Canada and the International Monetary Fund, Currency Assistant introduces a fourth source for the automatic rates update: the Bank of Italy, which publishes daily rates for 157 currencies.

Rates can be updated by choosing the Update Rates command from the File menu or from the Action pop-up menu, by clicking the Update Rates button in the Currencies window toolbar or automatically at startup.

Every time exchange rates are updated, Currency Assistant carefully logs results, so that you can easily find out whether any currencies could not be updated and why. Logs can be filtered, copied and saved to a RTF file.

Unless you update rates from the Currencies window, Currency Assistant simply displays a small progress dialog that reports any errors and lets you show the log in this case.

Revised menus

The File menu, besides allowing you to update rates, import amounts, manage currencies, and save or print the tape, lets you now create, open, close, and delete converters. In addition to that, it indicates when exchange rates were last updated.

The Edit menu now provides full undo and redo support and lets you to quickly select the desired tape clipping format and toggle whether thousand separators should be copied or not.

The new Converter menu lets you edit or duplicate converters and show or hide, advance, and clear the tape, while the new Window menu lets switch between converters and open windows and allows you to show logs.

Importing amounts and exporting results

Currency Assistant lets you now import series of amounts contained not only in plain text files and text clipping, but also in Word documents, RTF files, web archives and HTML files.

In addition to that, you can now quickly calculate multiple conversions by simply pasting series of amounts into the active display.

Exporting results is also more flexible. The tape lets you copy single amounts or conversions to the clipboard and drag single or groups of conversions to other applications.

Finally, Copy Special commands, which have been fully revised, can now include currency symbols besides ISO codes.

Unicode support and international formats

Currency Assistant supports Unicode text and lets you easily enter special characters.

In addition to that, Currency Assistant applies all the date, time and number formats available in the International pane of System Preferences.

If you want to be notified when we release Currency Assistant 3.0, please send an email to with the subject Currency Assistant (no message text is required) or to MaBaNews, our mailing list.

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