Currency Converter

vinny1957 · Post by **vinny1957** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:07 am

What do you think of an online curency converter or am I the only one who has to go and figure it out? Most private posts are USD, but when showing a price from a retailer many times it's in Euros. Anyone?
Vinny

Austin · Post by **Austin** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 8:31 am

I use www.xe.com/ucc/ . It seems accurate for the most part.

tonyespo · Post by **tonyespo** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 9:33 am

I also use XE.com I guess you could add a link to it on the site. I find XE super easy to use and accurate.

javyn · Post by **javyn** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 4:04 pm

I use google for my conversions. type "X dollars in euros" or "X inches in cm" or whatever into the search box and wallah

kaptain_zero · Post by **kaptain_zero** » Sun Nov 12, 2006 5:57 pm

If you are using Firefox for browsing, there's an Extension called Viewmycurrency which will do the exchange thing on any website you're looking at. It can handle just about any currency you wish and it updates itself every 8 hrs. I have mine set so that a Ctrl+Shift+C toggles it on and off and can either show your currency next to the original in the webpage or as in the new alpha version, I've set it to simply swap the price out with Cdn $. There's a little indicator on the bottom info bar in Firefox which shows if it's on or off. If you want the one that works with Firefox 2.0 you'll need to go to the softwares website and get the alpha version which seems to work ok, but some of the features still aren't right.

Regards

Christian.

As a side note, I also use XE sometimes but none of these exchange sites/software add in the "spread" that banks or credit card companies add for the service of exchange.