YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – The second software release of this month is Nopac Desktop.

Nopac Desktop and its iOS counterpart Nopac Mobile are designed for college students who use their iPads and Macs to regularly take notes during lectures and then review their notes on their devices. Nopac Desktop and Nopac Mobile have basic writing style features such as bolding, italicizing, underlining, colorizing a text segment. They also support the Undo/Redo stack such that you can click on the Undo button to undo the last text style change.

Nopac Desktop isn’t just a simple word processor for your desktop computers. When you register a course, you can create a list of keywords so that you can click on one to insert the selected keyword to the note document. Additionally, you can attach one or more photos to each document by clicking on the Add Image button.

Whether you take lecture notes on your iPad or Mac, you can easily share data course data between them. Sharing data between devices cannot be any easier than just with the click of a button since it doesn’t involve a special account for it. Just make sure that they are on the same iCloud account. If you want to share course data, select a course record on the right pane at the Startup screen. Then click on the Push button. On the other hand, if you want to view and edit a course record that you created on your iPad or another Mac, just click on the Fetch button.

With the click of a button, you can export selected lecture notes as a PDF file or an RTF file. The export options are available in the Settings sheet. Click on the Settings toolbar button at the Startup screen for more information.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – It looks like the summer season is over. And it’s been unusually cool at the end of August here in the Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan. It’s only 23°C this morning. Meanwhile, school will resume on Monday, I guess. So kids must be very unhappy about it.

Well, I have been insanely productive this month. So far, I have released 8 software products. That was a new record till several days go. What I mean is that I’m releasing the 9th software title of the month today. This new release is Best Fonts 6.

Once known as ‘FontsView,’ the Best Fonts is one of my oldest software series. It’s more than 15 years old. There was even a Windows version 15 years ago. Best Fonts 6 is the 6th installment of this series, which has its focus on the SwiftUI build and the undo/redo stack. Its main focus hasn’t changed since its first release, though. The core objective is to let the user compare different font families so that they can pick the best font style for a design you are working on.

Tom Bluewater

Tom Bluewater

Best Fonts 6 shows two lists under its sidebar. System fonts refer to the fonts that are installed in the System through Font Book.app. And Best Fonts 6 lets you select its type faces (Regular, Italic, Bold…) to display styled text, given an input text string, a font size and a text color. Best Fonts 6 is also able to display styled text based on an font file that is not yet installed the System. In this case, the application has no access to the type faces of the selected custom font.

One of the major changes since the last release is support for the undo/redo stack. Whether you switch from one font family to another or change one font size to another, Best Fonts 6 has your back. You can press Command + z or Command + Shift + z to undo or redo changes.

Tom Bluewater

Tom Bluewater

Best Fonts 6 has now an independent screen for watermaking an image with a font family you select. Select an image, and the application will show a text layer at the center. You can now move this text layer anywhere over the canvas. If it’s misplaced, you can undo the last position change.

The previous version had the Overlay and Compare features separately. Now, they are put together into one as Overlay, where you can compare two or more style text layers side by side. You can move any of them with your mouse pointer. Again, if you misplace any of them, you can undo the last move.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – The scorching heat is back. The highest temperature was 34° today. For some reason, I get very productive. Today, I have double releases. The first one to introduce is Notes2Me.

Notes2Me is a desktop application that lets you share messages with files between different devices (Mac, iPhone, iPad) with the same iCloud account of yours. Notes2Me works very well with its iOS counterpart (Notes2Me Mobile). As long as you are already logged into your iCloud account, there is no account setup or login.

Application’s main screen is divided into two parts. The Receiver side shows what you have received from other devices of yours. Under the right pane, you have a list of the records you have sent to other devices of yours.

When you send a record to your Mac from another device (Mac, iPhone, iPad), the application will not automatically fetch records. You can subscribe to record creation so that your Mac will receive a notification whenever you push a new record to the iCloud server.

In order to fetch records from iCloud, simply click on the Fetch toolbar button. And Notes2Me will only download unique records that don’t exist locally. With the click of a button, you can remove the original record the iCloud server. Similarly, you can remove all records in the iCloud server with the click of a button.

A record you have received from another Mac or an iOS device may contain one or more attachments. Regardless of the OS difference, you can save these attachments to your disk by opening the Files disclosure view and right-clicking on individual attachment names and selecting Save.   Continue reading →