Tension Software (www.tensionsoftware.com) has updated Calcine, its algebra solver for Mac OS X, to version 1.4.

Calcine provides a algebra solver in small strip window. You can use it for simple additions or for complex formula using and assigning variables and constants.

In Calcine 1.4 the import function variables and constants now has the ability to auto-detect the file encode format. There are new file encode formats for text files to import, nine accepted formats such as (UTF8, ASCII, UTF16, UTF32, OLD MAC OS 9) and others. You can now can import using also CSV-S format (Comma Separated Values using Semicolon) often used by Excel and other MS products.

Calcline requires Mac OS X 10.8 or higher. It costs US$1.99 and is available at the Mac App Store.