TOKYO (MacHouse) – Introduced a few days ago was a collection of high-resolution abstract images. It was titled High Resolution Abstract Vol 1. If there is Vol 1, you can expect Vol 2, don’t you think? In fact, we just submitted the second volume of this series a few hours ago.

High Resolution Abstract Vol 2 is a collection of high-resolution abstract pictures you will never find anywhere else. It comes with 64 4,000 x 3,000 px royalty-free pictures with 180 dpi, which can be adjusted to 72, 96, 144 or 180 dpi. Choose one from the sidebar, and a larger picture (800 x 600 points) will appear at the display window. You can flip the selected picture horizontally, vertically or both. Opening color adjustments panel, you can alter hue, saturation, contrast, exposure, gamma, sepia levels. What you see is a picture with a size of 800 x 600 points. What you get is a picture with a size of 4,000 x 3,000 px. If you choose TIFF as an export format, a file size can be as large as 48 MB.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – We’ve been quite productive lately. We just submitted our 3rd software title to Mac App Store a few hours ago. This new software title is called High Resolution Abstract Vol 1.

High Resolution Abstract Vol 1 is a collection of high-resolution abstract pictures you will never find anywhere else. It comes with 62 4,000 x 3,000 px royalty-free pictures with 180 dpi, which can be adjusted to 72, 96, 144 or 180 dpi. Choose one from the sidebar, and a larger picture (800 x 600 points) will appear at the display window. You can flip the selected picture horizontally, vertically or both. Opening color adjustments panel, you can alter hue, saturation, contrast, exposure, gamma, sepia levels. What you see is a picture with a size of 800 x 600 points. What you get is a picture with a size of 4,000 x 3,000 px. If you choose TIFF as an export format, a file size can be as large as 48 MB.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – We thought we switched over to iOS and game development a few months ago. Well, we are pretty much back to Mac OS X software development again. In fact, we submitted our second software title of the month to Mac App Store several hours ago. This new software title is called FonVee.

FonVee is similar to our existing software title called FontsView and FontsView2. FonVee lets you create images out of styled text, utilizing font typefaces. Bold and italic are most common font typefaces. There are more like condensed, light, medium, oblique and slated. So FonVee lets you use these font typefaces to make beautiful styled text. And you can save it as an image file with a click of a toolbar button without letting the application prompt you to name a file. If you click on Export button, FonVee will just send a text image to your shared folder. So you can continue to work on your styled text without interruption.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – If you develop iOS applications, you should already know that customizing navigation bar looks is not that difficult. Customizing navigation bars and tab bars is quite confusing, though. Even for the same device and orientation, a UI size can differ, depending on the target iOS version.

Gekko is a desktop application that lets you design navigation bars and tab bars for iOS applications with ease. You can use your own image or pick one from a built-in library of 33 texture images to design a navigation bar or a tab bar image. Also, you can create color gradation maps with Gekko to design a UI image. Let Gekko export UI images for both the Retina display and non-Retina display. Use Gekko to generate Objective-C code so that you can reproduce the same looks of an UI image with iPhone Simulator and iOS devices.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – Although we’ve been committed to developing iOS games these days, we are self-sufficient. So we develop an OS X application whenever necessary to make things easier. We are now interested in protecting application assets. If you want to harvest application resources from somebody’s product, all you have to do is open a package (Right-click and choose ‘Show Package Contents’) and navigate to the Resources folder, right? But some game developers are careful enough not to let casual users from harvesting application assets. For instance, download a hidden object game from Mac App Store and open its application package. Most likely, you won’t find application assets like PNG files and audio clips in the resource folders. How do they do it?

One way of keeping application assets away from casual users is to combine resource files into a single data file. Lockade is designed just for this purpose. That’s what we submitted to Mac App Store a few hours ago. Lockade lets you combine application assets (audio or image clips) into a single data file, which you can add to your Xcode project. I’ll take just several lines of code to recover individual assets. And it will be very difficult for casual users to harvest application assets from this data file.   Continue reading →