I am pleased to announce the availability of a currency convertor for the "Chinook" Maemo release of the Nokia Internet Tablet. The program "gcur", originally by Pierre-Paul Lavoie, has gotten some slight updates.

The "gcur" program does conversion between 166 different currencies. The program will update foreign exchange currency rates from the internet, or use a saved data file if a connection is not available.


Please see the Maemo Garage project site to download the ".deb" package or browse the source code:

• https://garage.maemo.org/projects/gcur/

The program is fully functional now, but I welcome the assistance of developers in creating compiled versions for the Bora and Mistral environments and improving the user interface. The gcur program is written in "C" and already has some Hildon customization.