TOKYO (MacHouse) – If you have already tried out Microsoft‘s Windows 8 Consumer Preview or 90-day evaluation version of Windows 8, you will probably agree that it’s not the best thing to use when you have a bunch of photos. It can be quite annoying when all you want to do is just open a couple of photo files. But you will be forced to toggle between Desktop and Photos, wasting your valuable time.

HiGallery is a desktop Windows desktop application that lets you manage and organize photo files. Using HiGallery, you can create a web browser-based photo gallery. You can import as many as 512 pictures to a project. All it takes to browse photos is a web browser. It’s cross-platform. So you can use your web photo gallery on your Mac and Lixux computers, too. Or you can even post your photo gallery on a remote server so that anyone can check out your photos.






Click on the button to see a sample photo gallery.
Click on the button for more information on HiGallery.






HiGallery is a product of MacHouse.
jQuery is a product licensed by the jQuery Foundation.
HiGallery utilizes piroBox, a jQuery plugin designed by Diego Valobra.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Yesterday, we had to code-sign some 200 Windows files. We could still be code-signing files right now without a small application we’ve developed just for this purpose.

cSignHelper is a smaller desktop application that helps you when you code-sign Windows files. If you have dozens of files to code-sign, you really don’t want to manually append one text value after another to create a code-signing script. Using cSignHelper, just drag and drop a file (to code-sign) onto the top path field. Then click on the Generate button. Clicking on the Copy button, you now have a script on the clipboard. So open Command Prompt and paste it there. Finally, press Return.






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cSignHelper is a product of MacHouse.
Windows is a product of Microsoft Corporation.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – The four software title of the month is ready. This new Windows application is called Shapespeare.

Shapespeare offers a quick solution to creating simple collage images. It comes with five default shapes on which you can scatter pieces of repeated image clips. Or you can use own file to create a custom shape, which Shapespeare will turn into a black & white image.






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Shapespeare is a product of MacHouse.
Windows is a product of Microsoft Corporation.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – We’ve just released the third software title of the month. This new Windows application is called SpotEasy.

SpotEasy is a Windows desktop application that lets you shed a light on an important spot of the selected picture by placing a darker layer on the picture. The initial release comes with six spotlight shapes. Select one under the Shape tab of the Properties window. You can resize and reposition the spotlight shape with your mouse pointer. If you are all set, simply click on the Export button at the bottom-left corner of the Canvas window.






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SpotEasy is a product of MacHouse.
Windows is a product of Microsoft Corporation.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – When we switched to Windows OS for software development at the end of last October (2011), we knew what we wanted to make. The initial goal was develop something similar to an existing Mac software title called Movie2Shot, which is currently available at Mac App Store. We always wanted to develop a Windows application that 1) would allow the user to drag and drop a video file onto a drop box, 2) take as many screenshots as they want with just a click on a button. Well… The road was long, and we encountered quite a lot of difficulty.

A major problem in developing video players is the result of Microsoft‘s reluctance or inability in updating resources required to support multimedia files. DirectX SDK is something that we could use except that it’s more than two years old. And it doesn’t even support the 64-bit system.

Whew… Finally, a long journey is over. We are happy to announce a new software title called Vid2Pics. It’s a Windows desktop application that is equivalent to Movie2Shot. So Vid2Pics lets you load a video clip by dragging and dropping a file onto a drop box. Then just click on the Shot button at the right frame to take a movie screenshot. Vid2Pics also offers two approaches by which you can take multiple movie screenshots. It supports about a dozen video container formats including AVI, MKV, M4V, MOV, MPEG, WMV. Of course, your system must have right media decoders to let Vid2Pics read your video files.






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Vid2Pics is a product of MacHouse.
Windows is a product of Microsoft Corporation.
The video clips that are used for this application’s User’s Guide come from the Internet Archive