YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – The cold weather is back! It was warm for a few days till yesterday. Hopefully, it will be warmer soon to see beautiful cherry blossoms. We all love to see them in the spring, don’t we?

Oh, boy… This is the 4th straight combo time. I’m releasing a macOS title followed by an iOS companion app to go with. The first one to go is Travel Plans Enterprise.

As the name suggests, Travel Plans Enterprise is a desktop application to be used by travel agencies that create travel plans for their customers. It works side by side with its OS counterpart, Travel Plans Mobile. A travel agent uses this desktop application to schedule train rides, air flights, hotel stays, and so forth. Many smart phone users hate to enter the phone numbers and the street addresses of the hotels they stay at manually, while they do want to make a telephone call to the hotel front desk and email them with a tap of a button. As a travel agent using this application, you directly send their travel plans to your customers so that they will receive them through the iOS counterpart. They navigate to the map view to see where their trains and flights depart and arrive. If they choose to, they will be reminded of a train ride or an air flight departure so that they won’t miss them.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – We are almost one month away from entering a new Spring season. I can’t wait. Hopefully, the daylight time will be a lot longer.

Well, just like the last month, I’m preparing double releases. The first one to go is Supply Chain Central.

Supply Chain Central works with its iOS counterpart called Supply Chain Mobile so that you as a supplier can send a shipment update directly to your customers’ iOS devices. And they will be notified with a notification. If they tap a notification alert, they will be presented with a sheet showing an expected shipment date, the current location and a package list. You can send an update for the same shipment to multiple devices at a time including your customer and a delivery truck driver such that the latter can update you back with the latest location of shipment.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – Some of you probably know that I hate the cold winter weather although today’s temperature has risen to 11°C (about 51°F) in the Yokohama area. I guess 11°C is not that bad as long as you stay inside. I run 4 or 5 km in the evening every day. It gets quite cold by that time. Hopefully, it will get a lot warmer next month.

Oh, well, I’m ready to introduce to you the first software product of this month. It’s one of double releases just like the combo that I introduced at the very end of the last year. This desktop application is called Sweet Hotel Central 2.

Whether you have hundreds of rooms at your hotel or just rent a couple of empty rooms for a short-time stay, Sweet Hotel Central 2 gives you everything you need to run a hotel business on your Mac so that you can host guests efficiently. You can register tens or even hundreds of rooms at a time and assign a geographical location to each property & room. Click on the Map tab, and you can see where your properties & rooms are all located on the map. Shown under the Schedule tab is your weekly schedule for hosting guests. Create a customer record so that you can book a reservation for your guest. Find out which room is available or not available for your guests based on the room capacity and their budget.

Sweet Hotel Central 2 goes beyond letting you manage customer records and book room reservations. It works with its iOS counterpart, Sweet Hotel Work 2, side by side so that you can set up a communication table between you and room maintenance workers. Send an invitation to a room service representative so that he or she can receive a notification every time you push a room status change. Once a table is set, iOS users can even push and receive a room status change among themselves.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – Although I hate the winter season, this January isn’t so bad. Today, the highest temperature was 16°C (about 60°F) in the Yokohama area. Unfortunately, it will be colder tomorrow, according to the weather forecast.

Anyway, I’m ready to introduce the first software product of this year. It’s a desktop application that works with the last iOS software release. It’s called Ranger Station 2.

Ranger Station 2 is a virtual command center designed for a group administrator who wants to keep track of the current locations of their group members on the map. At the end of the last year, we released an iOS app for iPhone and iPad users. Ranger Station 2 directly works with this app, HereRanger 2. Use HereRanger 2 to send invitations so that you can keep track of your members with a larger window on your Mac. Whenever someone you follow pushes their current location with a short message, you will receive a remote notification to your Mac through this application.

The following is how Ranger Station 2 works together with HereRanger 2.

1. The team member uses HereRanger 2 to create an invitation with a 6-digit verification number and a deep link.
2. The team member emails the invitation to the Ranger Station 2 administrator.
3. The Ranger Station 2 administrator click on the deep link. The Ranger Station 2 administrator enters the PIN number.
4. Ranger Station 2 shows team member’s current location on the map.
5. The team member uses HereRanger 2 to pushes his or her current location with a short message.
6. The Mac computer will receive a location change notification update.

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横浜 (トマトソフトウェア) – 11月なのでかなり寒くなりましたね。自分は冬が苦手です。肌は乾燥するし、指はあかぎれするし、早く春になって欲しいです。さて今日は既にiOS用のアプリ自刻表ラン３を出荷しましたが、もう一つ公開するのが自刻表づくりです。ダブル出荷で疲れましたっす。   Continue reading →