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Got the Time? – MacHouse to Release GlobalClockz (Formerly, Global Clockz)

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Mac software GlobalClockz

TOKYO (MacHouse) – When you work with international customers, it is sometimes necessary that business owners like us know their local time. There are many time zones. And it will be hard to keep track of their local time when the summer nears because not all countries adopt the summer time adjustment.

Mac OS comes with a widget called World Clock. It’s a great tool. But a problem with it is that it won’t show the date. So you won’t be able to tell what day it may have become after you set a different time zone.

Mac software GlobalClockz   Mac software GlobalClockz

Soon to be introduced is our new Mac software title called GlobalClockz. GlobalClockz will let the user run (non-static) multiple international clocks simultaneously. You will be easily able to tell the date after selecting a new time zone. And you can’t even tell if it’s before or after noon.   Continue reading →

Movie2Browse to be Updated

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Mac software Movie2Browse

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Movie2Browse is a versatile application that allows the user to catalog movies, generate movie screenshots, convert movies to AVI, FLV, WMV formats, extract audio. Version 1.5, which will be officially released in several hours, will also allow the user to split the selected movie into multiple independent clips. sQTime will let the user split the selected QuickTime-based movie (M4V, MOV, MP4…) into any number of segments, whether it’s 100 or 10,000 of them. Version 1.5 also includes sMKV, which allows the user to split the selected Matroska-container movie into any number of independent clips.   Continue reading →

Got Movies? – MacHouse introducing Movie2Browse

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Mac software Movie2Browse

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Just released is a new software title called Movie2Browse. Movie2Browse is a successor of mBrowser, a freeware title that we first released about 2 months ago. Movie2Browse is not just an application that allows the user to catalog movie files. It’s a versatile multimedia application that allows the user to convert movies into AVI, FLV, WMV, extract audio, transcode QuickTime movies with different audio/video compressors, generate as many as 999 movie snapshots randomly or sequentially.   Continue reading →

Hostage Crisis at MacUpdate – 2 Software Submissions Killed

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MacUpdate Misha






TOKYO (MacHouse) – More than 40 hours ago, we reported a hostage crisis at MacUpdate (www.macupdate.com) to which we submitted two updates of our software products, BookmarksX 1.7.5 and DVD2Browse 1.1.0. It had been almost 60 hours since we made software submissions and feared that they expunged them intentionally or by accident. So we were obliged to contact MacUpdate. The following is a prompt reply from MacUpdate C.O.O. Misha.






According to the content editor working the shift when your submissions came in, neither the web pages of the apps in question nor the version metadata provided in the download links indicated that the new versions were available yet.






It appears that they have indeed expunged our software submissions. We are disappointed to know that MacUpdate has chosen to make our last 2 software submissions disappear whatever the reason was as its competitor VersionTracker has never lost our submissions in the past. Indeed, BookmarksX 1.7.5 and DVD2Browse 1.1.0 are listed at VersionTracker.

So MacUpdate just makes our software submissions disappear like that?






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MacUpdate – Taking Software Submissions as Hostages
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MacUpdate – Taking Software Submissions as Hostages

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MacUpdate Misha

TOKYO (MacHouse) – MacUpdate (www.macupdate.com) is a popular website for Mac users. It’s a place where software users look for and find what they need and where software developers submit their products. MacUpdate has some unique tools that its competitor VersionTracker (www.versiontracker.com) doesn’t have and make Mac users go back. Whether or not a majority of software users prefer MacUpdate to VersionTracker, software developers don’t necessarily share the same view. In fact, if you ask us, we would answer that we’ve had quite enough of MacUpdate’s harassment. MacUpdate appears to intensionally withhold our submissions. They do lose submissions for sure. They refuse to remove existing software profiles. The worst part is that they will tell you to remove blog articles that you write at your own website. If you refuse, they’ll give you trouble.

More than 15 hours ago, we attempted to update two software titles with MacUpdate. One is DVD2Browser. The other one is BookmarksX. The following screenshots suggest that these submissions would be reviewed ‘within a few hours.’ (See Screenshot 01-2.) These submissions have not been listed at MacUpdate yet. Most likely, they won’t be for the next 10 hours or so. So what has happened to our software submissions?

MacUpdate harassment
Screenshot 01 – Source: MacUpdate 		  MacUpdate harassment
Screenshot 02 – Source: MacUpdate		   MacUpdate harassment
Screenshot 03 – Source: MacHouse

And what happened to the submission we made about 4 weeks ago? Back in January 9, we submitted a new software title (Junk-O-Magic) to MacUpdate. After waiting for more than 46 hours, we e-mailed them and asked what was going on. MacUpdate COO Misha replied   Continue reading →