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

Posted on 2026-08-23 by Administrator

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – For the past several days, it has rained almost every day in this Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area. It looks to me that we are back to another rainy season. I know what I can do when I cannot go out jogging. So I spent several days, not stepping out of my house much, developing a new iOS app. This new release is called Speed Shoots.

You seldom get a second chance when you miss a great moment of a camera shot. Fortunately, iOS comes with a camera shot feature that lets you take several, consecutive shots per second. It’s a great feature but not free from criticism. Some people say it can clutter the Photo Library with a lot of unwanted, near-identical photos. Others say its slide gesture control to initiate the feature is unintuitive.

Speed Shoots is an iPhone-only camera app that lets you take consecutive photos so that you won’t miss a great camera shot moment. Because it’s designed for you to take consecutive camera shots, there is just one circular camera shutter button you need to tap unlike Apple’s Camera with a hidden gesture control.

Speed Shoots has usual suspects as a camera app. It comes with the camera flash feature with three different modes (auto, on, off). You have options of delaying in taking consecutive camera shots by counting numbers to 1 with or without a voice. You also have options of overlaying the camera screen with a color grid or a color square. Also, you can adjust exposure Compensation (brightness) with a horizontal slider. Additionally, you can pinch-zoom the camera screen.

After you take a lot of rapid shots, they won’t be immediately added to the Photo Library. Review them one by one and tap Save to send the current photo you see to the Photo Library.

When you open Photos, what you see is only the one you decided to save, not messing up the Photo Library with several other near-identical photos. Continue reading →

What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing Super Patterns 3 for macOS

Posted on 2026-08-17 by Administrator

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 →

What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing Oh My Gradient 3 for macOS

Posted on 2026-08-13 by Administrator

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.

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

What’s Coming Up Next? Tomato Software Introducing Scrapboard Cloud 4 for iOS

Posted on 2026-08-10 by Administrator

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – Here comes the second release of the day. It’s an iPad-only release called Scrapboard Cloud 4.

The iOS version of Scrapboard is not as old as the macOS counterpart. The original idea is to have the user paste notes and pictures on a multi-page virtual bulletin board just like the door of a refrigerator at every household. This version now supports six different layer types: Text, Picture, SF Symbol, Appointment, Web, Map. Scrapboard Cloud 4 works along with its macOS counterpart (Scrapboard 4) so that you can share projects between different devices and OSes. As far as this app is concerned, you can share projects with other iPads and Macs as long as they all share the same iCloud account.

Previously, the last version the Scrapboard app was just a multi-page virtual bulletin board. Scrapboard Cloud 4 goes one step further. Now, you can create multiple projects locally, each of which is a multi-page virtual bulletin board. In order to share a local project between devices, all you have to do is select one in the project list and then tap the Push button. If you want to fetch projects from other devices, simply tap the Fetch button, and Scrapboard Cloud 4 will pull all existing projects under your current iCloud account and download them for you. Furthermore, you can subscribe to project changes made by other devices. And you will receive a notification every time you push a project on a different Mac or on an iPad.

Speaking of different types of layers, the followings are their brief descriptions.

Text: It’s a note layer where you can select a font family, a text size, a text color and a background color.
Picture: You can select a picture from your disk or from Photos Library.
SF Symbol: This layer type displays a symbol. You need to use SF Symbol.app, which is freely distributed by Apple, Inc., to get symbol names.
Appointment: You select the day of the month and the time of an appointment. And Scrapboard 4 will count down the remaining time until an event takes place. You have options of receiving or not receiving a notification.
Web: You can show the web content corresponding to the URL you specify.
Map: It’s used to show the map of the GPS coordinates you specify. And you can run a search with a landmark name to get coordinates.

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

Posted on 2026-08-10 by Administrator

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – It’s August. So it shouldn’t be surprised for you to hear that it’s scorching hot in this Tokyo-Yokohoma metropolitan area during the daytime. Yet, it’s been quite cool at dawn for the past several days.

Well, I’m ready to annouce a new software release. It’s the second and the third software release of the month. Yes, I’m releasing two software titles, one for macOS and the other for iPad. The desktop version is called Scrapboard 4.

The history of Scrapboard series goes back by almost 12 years. The original idea is to have the user paste notes and pictures on a multi-page virtual bulletin board just like the door of a refrigerator at every household. This version now supports six different layer types: Text, Picture, SF Symbol, Appointment, Web, Map. Scrapboard 4 works along with its iOS counterpart (Scrapboard Cloud 4) so that you can share projects between different devices and OSes. As far as this application is concerned, you cannot just share projects with iPads but also with other Macs provided that they all share the same iCloud account.

Previously, the last version Scrapboard was just a multi-page virtual bulletin board. Scrapboard 4 goes one step further. Now, you can create multiple projects locally, each of which is a multi-page virtual bulletin board. In order to share a local project between devices, all you have to do is select one in the project list and then click on the Push button. If you want to fetch projects from other devices, simply click on the Fetch button, and Scrapboard 4 will pull all existing projects under your current iCloud account and download them for you. Furthermore, you can subscribe to project changes made by other devices. And you will receive a notification every time you push a project on a different Mac or on an iPad.