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 →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – If you have ever submitted your software product to Apple’s App Store or Mac App Store, you probably know how difficult those reviewers are. Your submission might go through the review process under normal circumstances. But if it ends in the hands of a difficult reviewer, it might not. In a sense, it is the Russian roulette.

I know what I can do when I’m stressed. Submit more and more software titles to them. And Super Patterns 3, which I just submitted to Mac App Store, is just one of them.

Super Patterns 3 is a desktop application that lets you design a wallpaper pattern by repeating the same symbols horizontally and vertically. Super Patterns 3 is No. 3 of this series with many improvements. One major update is the full stack support of undo and redo actions. Once you navigate to the Canvas screen, whether you add a symbol to the canvas or just change its size or its background color, you can undo almost any action.

Super Patterns 3 supports two different types of patterns. You can use SF symbols to design a pattern. The SF symbol drop-down menu gives you quick access to 80 symbols. Yet, you don’t have to pick one from this drop-down. You can refer to SF Symbols.app for one by entering its name in the symbol name field. You can also repeat an image you select to make a pattern.

When you finish designing a pattern, you are just one click away from saving the entire canvas as an image to disk. Super Patterns 3 supports HEIC, JPEG, PDF, PNG, TIFF as export formats.

Super Patterns 3 lets you share your projects with different Macs sharing the same iCloud account. All you have to do is log into your iCloud account and select a project to share. Then just click on the Push button. You can then use a different Mac to fetch these projects by just clicking on the Fetch button. So you don’t have to worry about losing projects after buying a new Mac.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – It’s been rainy for the past several days. I was not able to go outside to run on Tuesday and Thursday. I’m not so sure if I can make it today. I guess I’ll find out that in half an hours. It looks like a typhoon is near the Tokyo-Yokohoma area.

Well, here comes the fourth software release of the month. It’s called Oh My Gradient 3.

The Oh My Gradient series has been around for almost 12 years. Its objective is to let you design a reproducible gradient pattern with multiple color stops. The followings are the steps as to how to use it.

1. Use the drop-down menu at the top-right corner to to select one of four gradient types (Linear, Radial, Elliptical, Angular).
2. Name a project.
3. Select on a project in the list and then click on the corresponding Edit button to navigate to the Gradient screen.
4. Click on the color button to set a color.
5. Click on the Add button to create a marker.
6. Select and move a marker left and right.
7. After you place one or more markers, click on the Export button to save the current gradient pattern as an image file.
8. Finally, click on the Save toolbar button to save progress.
9. Additionally, you can click on the SwiftUI code button to generate SwiftUI code for the current gradient pattern.

Oh My Gradient 3 lets you share gradient patterns with other Macs sharing the same iCloud account. So you can select a project in the list and then click on the Push button to send it to iCloud. You can download gradient patterns that have been pushed by other Macs by clicking on the Fetch button. All gradient projects you have downloaded have the Cloud tag while other projects have the Local tag.   Continue reading →