TOKYO (MacHouse) – It’s not even half past the month, but we are ready to introduce the third iOS application of the month. This new release is called Mirror2D.

Mirror2D is an iPad-only iOS application that simply lets you create a reflection image. There are two sources of picture files that Mirror2D can have access to. By touching the Photos button, Mirror2D will access the Photos library where pictures that you have taken with Apple’s Camera are stored. If you transfer files to your device through iPhoto/iTunes, those files will also be saved in the Photos library folder. Secondly, you can extract images that are located in the sandbox-protected folder allocated to this application through iTunes by touching the Application button. Once you load a picture, you have three settings to configure. Use the height slider to control the height of a reflection image. The second slider lets you control the opacity level of a reflection image. Finally, use the third one to apply a blur filter to a reflection. Furthermore, you have an option of saving both the source part and the reflection part or only the reflection part as an image (PNG or JPEG). When you finally tap the Save button, Mirror2D will export an image with its alpha channel retained, of course, provided that you choose PNG as an export format and the opacity level is lower than 100.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – We’ve had a good start this month. Now, we are ready to introduce the second iOS application. This new software release is called Video2Img. Well, the application name is quite descriptive. Yes, it’s an application that you can use to take movie screenshots.

Video2Img is an iPad-only application that lets you take a movie screenshot with a simple tap on a button. All you have to is move the play head to find a frame. Then just tap a button. You don’t have to worry about naming screenshot files. If you enable the auto-numbering feature, Video2Img will automatically name your movie screenshots such that it will never overwrite existing files. Turning on the Watermarking switch, you can let the application automatically watermark your movie screenshots.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Last month, we were a bit slow and released only two applications. This month, we already have a new iOS application to introduce to you. Remember the last software release? It’s QuickPie. After watching a background texture pattern on a pie chart, I said to myself “Hmm… Maybe, I can create a small app to randomly generate texture patterns.” Now, we have a new iPad application to talk about. The new software title we’ve just submitted to Apple‘s iTunes Connect is called Texturesque.

As mentioned earlier, Texturesque is an iOS application that lets you randomly generate texture patterns. All you have to do is tap the CREATE button, and Texturesque will instantly create a texture pattern. The initial installment only lets you generate one texture pattern at a time. With an in-app item, you can generate as many as 1,000 patterns at a time in a matter of several seconds or less. Select a texture pattern in the table and tap its disclosure indicator, and you can save the texture pattern as a PNG image, which you can extract through a desktop computer installing iTunes. Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Hmm… It’s been a while since we released the last iOS application. The last one was CalABC. It’s been more than two weeks. Wait, wait! What is QuickPie!? Oh, that’s right. QuickPie is our second software release of the month that we just submitted to Apple‘s App Store just some 15 minutes ago.

QuickPie is an iPad application that will let you create pie charts quickly. You can create any number of datasets. Tap the Data button to open a popover menu to select one to load. When you are finished with data, just tap the Chart button. And voila! Tap the Export button at the top to save the chart as a graphic image, which you can retrieve through a desktop computer running Apple’s iTunes (multimedia application).   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Several days ago, I had to go to the tax office to submit papers. After realizing that I made some mistakes, I needed to use a calculator to add up numbers. So I turned on my iPad Mini. Well, that’s when I found out that iOS doesn’t even come with a simple, virtual calculator. We don’t have one. So we build one. And we’ve just submitted the first iOS application of the year. It’s called CalABC.

Well, CalABC is not exactly a simple virtual calculator. It’s an equation solver. So it will solve the entire equation you enter when you tap the equal pad instead of doing a calculation each time you tap the mathematical sign like +, -, * and /. In this way, you can correct a mistake by using the backspace button when necessary.   Continue reading →