Koloroo today announced the release of the first widgets that run on any iPod with a color screen. TipKalc is an easy-to-use tip calculator with instant check-splitter and KolorWheel is a color utility that provides scientifically formulated color schemes to match a web page, home decor, shirt or outfit … in fact, just about anything. Both widgets can be loaded onto an iPod from either a PC or Mac and are available at an introductory download price of only $4.99 and $7.99 respectively.
TipKalc is easy to use. Just spin your iPod’s Click Wheel until your bill amount is displayed in the center of the screen. Everything else is automatically calculated for you. It calculates recommended 15% and 20% tip amounts, grand totals, and even splits the check up to five ways.
Using KolorWheel is just as easy. You select a base color by moving your thumb over the iPod Click Wheel. A suggested color scheme is automatically displayed in the four corners. If you prefer to match your base color to a particular object, you hold your iPod next to it. Again, a suggested color scheme will be automatically displayed in the corners.
More info: http://www.koloroo.com/
And the iPod becomes ever more ingrained into our daily lives…
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and work on a nano too, cool, sign of things to come
Why can’t it just change colors to show my mood?
MW:modern
Its about time… Now, how about video on all color capable iPod, including Nanos – Why? Just ’cause, that’s why.
“Its about time… Now, how about video on all color capable iPod, including Nanos – Why? Just ’cause, that’s why.”
i dont think the nanos processor is capable
Tip calculator: Your brain, use it or lose it.
1: Round to nearest dollar.
2: Double it.
3: Move decimal place to the left one time.
4: Round again to nearest dollar.
Piece of cake.
I eat out just about every night using this method, I have not a problem. Waitstaff don’t like small change (coins) anyway.
And they certainly don’t like foreigners who don’t tip or just leave a dollar on a high bill.
It would be nice if the color wheel shows Pantone numbers. It’s more universal than the RGB values among designers.
You’ll look like a cheapskate or a dunce pulling out your calculator/iPod to figure a tip in a resturant.
Trust me.
“You’ll look like a cheapskate or a dunce pulling out your calculator/iPod to figure a tip in a resturant.”
True for a calculator. But isn’t this the beauty of it? You whip out your iPod, and nobody knows whether you’re checking your next appointment, the number of someone you have call, the address of the next place you have to be, a picture of your sweetie or just some tunes for the trip home. Nobody guesses that you’re actually too drunk to figure out how to split the check and add the tip…
Waiters really hate foreigners who just leave a dollar when it isn’t even the local currency!
@ Wiseguy
A tip calculator weather iPod or paper, indicates MANY things. None of which are cool. YET many people use them.
A similar thing occurs when people use Windows.
HOWEVER,
widgets on iPods ftw! what took so long?
fatal>A tip calculator weather iPod or paper>
So it tells whether there’s rain on the way or not?–Magic!
also if it in the “games” menu? how do you acess it?
for ron
I agree this is a good sign of things to come. Next stop–iPhone. So much for no “third pary apps.” There will be tons of widgets available for the iPhone at some point, making it incredibly useful and changing the game in the cell phone industry.
Self proclaimed “analyst”
Wiseguy is a moron
Yep, it’s funny people cry about third party apps for iPhone, of course there will be a lot of widgets for all taste. And yes it will change the game for life and for OS X. It will drive more developers to OS X.
OK, no one else mentioned this, but….
“If you prefer to match your base color to a particular object, you hold your iPod next to it. Again, a suggested color scheme will be automatically displayed in the corners.”
It can “sense” the color next to it????? Doesn’t anyone else find this amazing?????
I saw applications running on the ipod, at the last CTIA wireless show in LA. It was amazing, the ipod is already capable of supporting 3rd party apps. Just wait, the ipod/iphone will be another platform to design and develop for. Its exciting times! This two small “widgets” are just the beginning. Its fun watching the world change before your eyes.
@ Cubert:
yeah i noticed that too… how does it do that?
@ Wiseguy
Move to Australia. There, tipping is considered rude. They just don’t do it. The same for other parts of the world.
The first (and only) time I went to an “Outback Steakhouse” (a US chain), the waitress came to our table and promised a “genuine Australian experience”. To which I replied, “Oh – then you’re not expecting a tip.”
The look on her face was priceless.
And yes, I left her the standard tip.
15-20% for a tip!
I live in Japan and, like Oz and many many other countries in the world, we don’t tip. Serivce is included in price.
And might I also add that Japanese service is probably the best in the world. And always free.
It seems that the US is completely overrun with money grabbing opportunities.
When are you lot going to wake up?
I’m serious… when?
The whole world is asking the same question.
Start a revolution or something!?
Lame…
I took a look at the demo version they have – it’s basically 500 or so pre-made images that an installer places in your iPhoto Library. Then iTunes copies them over to your iPod. It’s not so much a widget or anything, just a series of images ordered in a specific way. To access them with your iPod, you just go to the Photos section, choose their album, then spin your scroll wheel the change the “frame”. A similar approach was used so you can get movies onto your iPod Photo – just save your movie as frames, and export the audio. On the iPod, simply play the audio and spin your scroll wheel really really fast so you get an animation.
Another thing odd about America is the sales tax system. In most other countries, the price you see on the sticker is the price you pay at the register. The tax in calculated into the price.
I used to work retail/cashiering and many foreigners are unpleasently suprised when I ring up the total and it isn’t what they thought it would be.
Sometime when an American visits a restaraunt in some foreign countries for the first time, they leave the tip on the table. The waiter/tress thinks you left your money on the table and will come runnig after you trying to give it back.
Widget? – hardly, Its just a folder full of images – while they maybe handy for some – its not exactly as amazing as the comments seem to imply