Some very old units of area managed to survive their time and stay in use today. For example an old unit dunam is still widely used in some countries of Europe and Middle East.
So we decided to add a special chapter on our area conversion page where you can convert from these old survivor units to modern ones. Enjoy!
We have updated Ancient Roman units of weight in Historical Units section.
Did you know that Latin word uncia (Roman ounce) literally meant "twelfth" since it was 1/12 of a libra (Roman pound)?
We have greatly updated Greek and Roman length units sections. We added more units there and included Greek spelling for Greek units.
The length conversion section of our site is currently the longest, we feature 238 various units there. Do you think it would be better if we split length page into two: contemporary units and ancient units?
Just added coal energy equivalent units to our energy conversion page. Thank you all who suggested it. We appreciate your help!
http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/energy/
In many countries there are road signs warning on roads going uphill/downhill. The slope is often marked as a percentage. Do you know what it means? Zero percent is surely a horizontal road, but what angle marks a particular percent?
We have just added slope percent conversion to our circular measure converter. Now you can easily convert from degrees to slope percentage and vice versa. The converter is here: http://www.convert-me.com/…/conv…/circular/slopepercent.html
¿Es usted un hablante nativo de español?
En nuestro nuevo convertidor de tamaño del zapato hay una gran cantidad de textos. Utilizamos traducción automática para hacer textos en español. Sabemos que puede ser malo.
Si usted fuera tan amable de ayudarnos y decirle cómo podríamos decirlo mejor en español, apreciaríamos mucho....
El nuevo convertidor está aquí: http://www.convert-me.com/es/convert/shoesize/
Muchas gracias por ser paciente con nuestro español!
You thought different length or weight units were a nightmare? No, shoe sizes – that's where the real mess is. Various footwear manufacturers measure different things: a foot, a shoe last or an inner cavity of the shoe. They not only use absolutely different scales in various countries, the scale may differ from one manufacture to another even if they seem to use the same one.
We finally added world shoe size converter to conver-me.com. And it's not a simple table of the siz...es, we try to explain how each of the scale works. We won't be too shy and say we're proud with the result. Check it here: http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/shoesize/
Please tell us what you think, would you prefer a simple conversion table or a converter that also explains how each scale works? Should we take this approach when adding new converters in the future?
يشعر بـالقناعة.Did you know that Australian tablespoon is 1/3 bigger than in Europe and the U.S.? We've added Australian spoons to our cooking conversion page here: http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/cooking/
يشعر بـحالة ممتازة.We're finally rolling out a big release to convert-me.com that involves over 100 new and updated units. These include old Spanish and Portuguese units of weight, length, area and volume. Some of these units are still occasionally used in the countries of Latin America. We've also upated our Thai units to make them more comprehensive and exact.
Hope you'll find it useful. And please do let us know if you find anything you think strange or incorrect.
Visit us as usual on http://www.convert-me.com/
We've added some sharing buttons to all conversions pages of convert-me.com. Now it's easier to share the page or email it to someone. Hope you don't mind.
Summer is over. Time to go back to school. Our congratulations to all who's studying!
We see your activity on our site and try to do our best to be helpful. Last week we had the highest number of guests in our history -- over 220 thousand people have visited us. Thank you and please come again.
Just fixed a bug that prevented online conversions to work in older versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer. The bug affected MSIE version 8 and below. Sorry for the troubles.
And please do not hesitate to tell us whenever you feel something is not working as it should on www.convert-me.com. The earlier we know something is not quite right, the faster we fix it.
Did you know that 1 span equals to 3 palms or 27 barleycorns? Now you do. 
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We've just added more English units to our length converter: http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/length/
Back to the beginning. Would you like to get into a time machine and see how our Measurement Converter looked 17 years ago? Here it is, enjoy: http://nostalgie.gershtein.net/…/www/u…/sg/transl/index.html
¿Habla español? Do you speak Spanish? Maybe you've already noticed that little new "ES" button on the top of our conversion pages. Yes, we've launched Spanish version of Convert-me.com. The translation was done by Anastasia Vavilova.
If you know Spanish please check http://www.convert-me.com/es/
If you have Spanish-speaking friends, please direct them to http://www.convert-me.com/es/
As usual, we'll very much appreciate your feedback.
Convert-me.com is growing up and becoming smarter. We are proud to announce it has finally grown friendly to smartphones. No, we’re not talking about apps yet. But now you can open www.convert-me.com on your mobile device and get a nice optimized converter that fits to your phone screen.
The mobile version is just out of production, don’t you feel that light smell of a newly manufactured thing? Try it while it’s hot and please tell us what you think. We’ll be very grateful for any feedback and particularly for any bugs you might find there.
An awesome book about measurements and units conversion. Looking forward to get one and use it to make convert-me.com much better by adding many old national units and improving the accuracy.
