YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – September was over last week. So was the unusual rainy season, finally. I can now go jogging every day. Wait, I have a new application to announce before I go outside. This new release is called Grabbo 2.

Grabbo 2 is a sequel to an 11-year-old desktop application that lets you reposition and resize the selected application window. It is something that I really needed to work on so that I can make desktop screenshots of applications that I develop more easily.

Señor Tomato

Señor Tomato

Grabbo 2 lists all application windows that are currently running on your Mac when you launch it. So select one and then click on the Move or Resize toolbar button. Then enter a new position (x, y) or window size value (width, height). Additionally, you can use the countdown timer so that Grabbo 2 will count down to 0, and then it will move or resize the selected application window.

When you have two or more windows from the same application, you may find it difficult to tell which window belongs to which frame record. In this case, you can select one in the list and click on the Overlay button to cover the selected window with a color frame.

Grabbo 2 is not so perfect as the previous version. Grabbo 2 doesn’t work with all applications. For example, it cannot change the window position and size of Calculator.app. Furthermore, every application that Grabbo deals with requires that it has an exception entitlement.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – The rainy September continues. It sucks. Could someone stop the rain so that I can go jogging? For now, it’s not raining. According to the weather forecast, we will have a sunny day tomorrow. Hopefully, that will be true.

Since I cannot go jogging, the best way of spending time at home is writing code, you know? Actually, I’m ready to introduce a new desktop application. This new release is called Ranking Optimas.

App Store Optimization (ASO) is an integral part of generating good revenue by selling software at Apple’s App Store and Mac App Store. It requires continuous effort in improving app’s visibility. Using a wrong list of keywords can make your app undiscoverable, which may lead to an undesirable flow of revenue.

Ranking Optimas is a desktop application that helps you make a good decision in choosing right words to use at the digital store. Ranking Optimas does NOT give you a list of keywords since it doesn’t know how your software title works. Rather, it tells you which group of keywords should be prioritized when you have plenty of them to choose from.

The following is how Ranking Optimas works. You create a keyword project at the Startup screen. You select it and then click on the Edit toolbar button with it so that you will navigate to the Keyword screen. This is where you create a list of keyword groups. After having five or more keyword groups in the list, click on the Run toolbar button, but select the target platform and the country with the drop-down menus at the top. When you click on the Run toolbar button, the application will access iTunes Connect get store data. It is allowed to access once every minute at most. If you have five keyword groups, it’ll take Ranking Optimas six minutes to finish getting store data. The application will automatically close the Progress sheet when it’s done. Ranking Optimas will give you access to the names of top-ranked software titles from iTunes Connect, So click on each View button to see if you find useful keywords from this list. Returning to the Startup screen, select the keyword project and then click on the Analyze button. And Ranking Optimas will show you a horizontal list of keyword groups with ranking numbers.   Continue reading →