What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing LittleCal 4 Mobile for iOS

iOS Swift iPhone iPad LittleCal 4 Mobile

TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – It was just last week when I released the last iOS app. And I’m ready to release another iOS app today. This new release is called LittleCal 4 Mobile.

LittleCal 4 Mobile is an iOS conversion of an existing desktop application for macOS. It lets you manage your schedules on the weekly basis.

The whole idea of LittleCal is to let the user remind themselves of events ahead of time. As far as the iOS version is concerned, you will get a local notification about an upcoming event ahead of time whether or not the device is locked. If you have an important conference call to attend at 3 PM, wouldn’t you like to be reminded of it ahead of time like 2 PM and, again, at 2:30 PM? That’s the basis of LittleCal.   Continue reading

What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing CrimeSceneCapture for iOS

iOS Swift iPhone iPad CrimeSceneCapture

TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – The summer is here. The daytime temperature is expected to rise to 31 celsius (87.8 F) in the Tokyo area today. I like the summer, but the recent scorching heat is too much for me.

In order to deal with the scorching heat, I’ve developed a new iOS app. This is my first iOS app with Augmented Reality. This new release is called CrimeSceneCapture.

CrimeSceneCapture is an AR (augmented reality) app that lets you photo-document evidence at crime scenes with your iOS device (iPhone & iPad). As a crime scene investigator, it must be important for you to preserve evidence at a crime scene. Sometimes, you may find one piece of evidence or more after forensic photographers have left. What you currently have in your hand may be an iOS device and want to take photos of evidence with numbered markers. That’s the primary use of this app.

CrimeSceneCapture lets you project as many as 999 numbered cubic markers on the camera screen at a time. All it takes is a finger tap on the screen to post a numbered cubic marker with a color of your choice. It just takes another finger tap on an existing marker to remove it from the screen. Numbers are automatically incremented. Or you can set any number between 0 and 999. Furthermore, CrimeSceneCapture comes with four 3D objects (body, knife, pistol, ruler) that assist you in photo-documenting crime scenes. You can move, zoom in and out and rotate these 3D objects.   Continue reading

What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing LittleCal 4 for macOS

Mac application LittleCal 4

TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – It’s a rainy season in June in the Tokyo area. So it’s quite sticky. In a few weeks, we will have continuous hot days that will last till mid-September. Anyway, I just submitted a new desktop application called LittleCal 4 to Mac App Store several minutes ago.

If you have used LittleCal 3, I am sorry, but it’s dead. It was short-lived as it has turned out that its status menu was incompatible with macOS 15 (Sequoia). Unfortunately, there was no way of fixing it. LittleCal is one of several long-lasting series that I use as desktop applications. Its future was grim at first since I had to get rid of its status menu. In the end, LittleCal has become a fine weekly schedule planner.  Continue reading

What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing TextJungler 2 for macOS

Mac application TextJungler 2

TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – It’s getting hotter here in the Tokyo area while it rains quite a bit at the same time. Anyway, I just submitted a new desktop application called TextJungler 2 to Mac App Store several minutes ago.

When you write code to develop an iPhone app or a desktop application, you really need a plain text editor such that you can quickly edit lines of code. I used to use TextEdit to edit code. But that was a decade ago. TextJungler 2 is one of those plain text editors that let you change the text color, text size, font family, font typeface, background quickly with a drop-down menu.   Continue reading

What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing ゴミ出し戦隊 for iPhone

iOS アプリ ゴミ出し戦隊

TOKYO (Señor Tomato) – やっと春が訪れたと思ったら最近は雨ばかり降りますね。今週も今日を含め何度か雨が降る予定のようです。皆さん、通勤や買い物に出る時は足元に気を付けてくださいね。
 さて今日も日本人の皆さんに使ってもらうことを前提にしたiPhone用のアプリを公開します。そのアプリとはゴミ出し戦隊です。
 ゴミ出し戦隊とはiPhoneとiPadで使えるゴミ出しの日程を確認するためのアプリで、日本にお住まいの方々のためにつくったものです。もちろんお住まいの自治体の支援の下で無料で配布されているアプリがあるでしょうから、「何で今更このアプリが必要なんだ?」と思うかもしれませんが、皆さんはそのアプリの機能に満足していますか?例えば医療の仕事に携わっている人達であれば、医療廃棄物の回収が定期的にあるかもしれませんが、必ずしもそのような回収が自治体配布のアプリで網羅されてはいないかもしれません。またはゴミ回収の通知は毎回は受けたくなくて、必要な時だけ自分で決めたい、という方もいるかもしれません。ゴミ出し戦隊ではその日ごとに通知を送れるようになっていて、また設定画面で予定に入れている通知をキャンセルすることもできます。何年も前のことですが、自分が不満だったのはゴミ出し予定を確認するアプリがiPadで使えなかったことです。
 また何年も前からあるアプリだと必ずしも最新の技術を使っているかわかりませんが、自治体の支援で無料で配布されているアプリではウィジットは使えますか?このアプリにはウィジットが付随しているので、アプリを起動しなくてもその週のゴミ出し日を確認することができます。
  アプリでその週のゴミの回収の予定を確認するには、まず設定画面でご近所のゴミの回収予定を設定する必要があります。設定の仕方は本アプリの主要画面の左上にある赤い「?」ボタンをタップすることでその説明を読みことができます。ぜひご確認ください。  Continue reading