What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing Design Mob Central for macOS

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Mac application Design Mob Central

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – It’s been quite interesting days for the past two weeks. I started the last Design Mob project only reluctantly two weeks ago. And I’m releasing a desktop version of it today. This new release is called Design Mob Central.

Design Mob Central offers a real deal in designing mobile app and desktop application screen designs for a team of software developers and UI designers because it gives you full control of actual UI components from the operating system. As a team designer, you can publish the final design by selecting a project and then clicking on the Push button so that your entire software development team will receive it. And they will receive a notification alert.

Speaking of UI components, you can use actual tab names to create a picker layer. Use actual GPS coordinates with a map layer. Also, you can use the actual URL to show the web content with a web view layer.

Enroll team members by sending them deep links. There are no restrictions on how many people you can enroll. They don’t even need to sign up for an account. All you need is an Apple account. And they don’t have to be desktop computer users. iPhone and iPad users can use the iOS counterpart (Design Mob) to receive a design project through CloudKit.

In fact, you don’t even have to be constantly connected to the Internet. You can work on a design project locally. Once you are ready to push a project to CloudKit, make sure you are signed in to your iCloud account. And all team members will receive your design project with the click of a button.   Continue reading →

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

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YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – This is the most beautiful season of the year in the Tokyo area as we see cherry blossoms here and there. In my area, I see a lot of red and yellow tulips while jogging.

I always wanted to create a software title that lets people share mobile app designs, but I was quite reluctant to work on it as I expected a lot of hurdles. Well, eight days later… Hmm… It’s way sooner than I had expected. I’m ready to introduce to you a new iOS app submission to Apple’s App Store. It’s called Design Mob.

Nowadays, use of Figma is a fixture in the iOS software development. You may receive a design blueprint from your client through Figma. I have a couple of cases where I received them from clients. They do offer a great service except that the membership prices are quite expensive. So I wanted to develop something that people can use to share design projects for iOS users.

Design Mob is an iOS app for iPhone and iPad users that lets them share mobile app design projects. A design administrator can work on their projects locally as it doesn’t require a constant WiFi connection. Once they are finished, they can share the project they select with a tap of a button with their development team. Those who receive a design project are referred to as design users who don’t have to do anything but to wait after accepting an invitation from the administrator. When the design administrator pushes a project, their devices will receive a notification and automatically save the project file. All they have to do, then, is to select a design project and a screen to see the blueprint.

Design Mob supports more than twenty phone and tablet screen sizes in addition to more than twenty mobile UI components including Button, TextField, Map, Switch. So all you to do is add this and that to the canvas. Move them to the right place, change the text color and so forth. You can also create a drop-down menu with actual tab names.

The app also lets you create a PDF file from a blueprint you select. So select a design project, which can contain more than one screen. Select one of them, and you will get a share link.

The main objective of using this app is to bridge the design administrator and their development team members. Once the design administrator taps the push button, all team members will receive a notification call, and the app will get a design project file through WiFi without manual download.   Continue reading →

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

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Mac application NameRanger 2

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – What a beautiful spring day! It was raining for days. Now, we have continuous sunny days. That’s what the spring season is all about, huh!?

Well, I know it’s been only 4 or 5 days since I released the last desktop application. And I’m ready to go for No. 2 of the month. This new release is called NameRanger 2.

The NameRanger is a 15-year-old desktop application project brought back to life. NameRanger 2 lets you rename all files and folders in a parent folder you select in a non-destructive manner. You can add an enumerating number to the beginning or the end of each file name and remove a certain number of characters from each name to make the modification list. Or maybe, you just want to change all letters to uppercase or lowercase? How about just removing all numbers, punctuation characters or currency symbols from each file name? If you have made a mistake and ended up with a list of files sharing the same name, click on the Undo button to revert to the last stack of file names. Only when you click on the Execute name changes button, will the application rename the files according to the modified file name list.

NameRanger 2 offers five different approaches to changing file names: Add, Subtract, Replace, Transform, and Remove. Additionally, you can select a particular file name in the list and change it to something else manually.

NameRanger 2 lets you create a recovery file so that you can restore original file names. After you execute name changes, click on the “Save Recovery File” toolbar button to create a recovery JSON file. When you realize that you made a mistake, let the application select this recovery file to restore the original file names.   Continue reading →

What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing Showcase 1-2-3D 2 for macOS

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Mac application Showcase 1-2-3D 2

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – It’s quite warm in this spring season. The only problem is that it rains quite a bit. It rains three or four times a week. That’s too much. Hopefully, we have more sunny days so that we can appreciate beautiful cherry blossoms.

It’s been quite a while, but I’m ready to introduce a new desktop application for macOS users. This new release is called Showcase 1-2-3D 2.

Flat 2D images may be too ordinary to look at. So what about making them look like 3D images? Showcase 1-2-3D 2 is a simple tool by which you can turn 2D images into 3D in 1-2-3, rotating them around the x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis, giving them some depth, rounded corners, and colored sides besides the front surface. You can use multiple light nodes to cast light on the objects. Finally, click on the Export button to save the entire scene canvas as an image file.   Continue reading →

What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing Late2Office 2 for iOS

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YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – The spring season has finally come to the Tokyo area. Yet, it has been raining these days. Hopefully, we will have sunny days so that we can see beautiful cherry blossoms.

I’ve been developing apps that use CloudKit. I have a new new to announce today. This new submission to Apple’s App Store is called. Late2Office 2.

When you use public transportation to commute to your office, anything can happen that prevents you from arriving on time. It might be a matter of making a phone call with your smartphone to let your colleagues know that you are running late, provided that they are already in the office. In some countries, there might be a public rule of manners that prevents you from making phone calls inside a bus or a train. But if you want to let someone know that you are running late, then what do you do?

Late2Office 2 is an iOS app for iPhone and iPad users that lets employees report to an office manager remotely in times of commute trouble so that you won’t worry anyone when running late. An office manager can see a list of their employees and their corresponding arrival statuses.

Late2Office 2 can create different charts for the commute habits of its employees. For example, an office manager might find that one employee runs late 90% of the time because they have to take their kids to school on the way to work. In such a case, it might be a better idea for the office manager to change the work start time for this employee. Late2Office 2 is a tool for identifying issues, not one for employee surveillance. It is designed so that the office manager and employees can work together to correct commute problems, allowing the employee to keep working, as it will be beneficial for both sides to maintain a low turnover rate.   Continue reading →