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Alfred 2 is awesome productivity application for Mac OS X. It allows you to quickly search files, navigate web, run applications and many more. One of the great features of Alfred are workflows – custom actions, that can be triggered (and programmed) by the user.
As a solution to my frequent need of calculating the exchange rates between currencies, I made an Alfred 2 workflow that allows to do exactly that, using Google-like syntax, for example:
rate 123 USD in EUR
will yield result:
90.44 EUR
Here’s a screenshot:
alfred-currencies screenshot
You can download the workflow here. Installation instructions are on the project’s Github page, as well as the code and issue tracker.