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 →

TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – I love this time of the season though it’s been a little bit chilly lately. And I have been quite productive although I can never be what I once was in July when I produced eight software products. Well, I’m ready to introduce to you the second software title of the month. This new desktop software release is called Deskcap 4.

Deskcap 4 is a new software update to a 13-year-old desktop application that lets you define a work area with a virtual color frame. The work area is clipped out of the entire desktop area such that you can work with other applications. The area in color outside of this transparent work frame is protected by the application and will not respond to your mouse clicks. Click on the Capture button to take a desktop screenshot of the current work area. By setting up a shared folder, you can let the application save an image file to disk with a click of a button, and you won’t even be bothered to name a file.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – You never know when you get a development idea. It just happends, sometimes, while you sleep. And it was just like that last night. Now, I’m submitting a new desktop application to Mac App Store. This new release is called Detouchable.

Detouchable lets extract PDF document pages and save them as BMP, GIF, HEIC, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG or TIFF images. And it’ll take just several seconds to write all pages or the pages you have selected as images to disk.   Continue reading →