A Car Too Far » calculator http://www.acartoofar.co.uk Ordinary Actions = Ordinary Results Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:35:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Wont somebody think of the children? http://www.acartoofar.co.uk/fun-links/wont-somebody-think-of-the-children/ http://www.acartoofar.co.uk/fun-links/wont-somebody-think-of-the-children/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:33:06 +0000 Matt http://www.acartoofar.co.uk/?p=155 [...]]]> There are some software developments that wont ever make a dent on the world, and there’s some that could change the way we do things…. FOREVER.  The chaps at TLA have set about changing the world with paradigm shifting technologies and their latest release is no exception.

The new PCalc software for the iPhone has a new “patent-worthy profanity filter” that filters out profanity created by typing in numbers such as “5318008″ into your calculator and turning it upside down.

Have you, or somebody close to you, ever turned your calculator upside down and accidentally seen a mildly suggestive word? Have you ever been in a maths class, and had to put up with groups of giggling boys performing elaborate calculations that are not part of the lesson?

Yes, it’s one of the main problems affecting the calculator industry today, the so-called “calculator words”. These otherwise harmless devices can be made to display smut at the press of a few buttons

Saving the world from mildy amusing words

Saving the world from mildy amusing words

Thank God for PCalc

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