YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – It’s been quite interesting days for the past two weeks. I started the last Design Mob project only reluctantly two weeks ago. And I’m releasing a desktop version of it today. This new release is called Design Mob Central.

Design Mob Central offers a real deal in designing mobile app and desktop application screen designs for a team of software developers and UI designers because it gives you full control of actual UI components from the operating system. As a team designer, you can publish the final design by selecting a project and then clicking on the Push button so that your entire software development team will receive it. And they will receive a notification alert.

Speaking of UI components, you can use actual tab names to create a picker layer. Use actual GPS coordinates with a map layer. Also, you can use the actual URL to show the web content with a web view layer.

Enroll team members by sending them deep links. There are no restrictions on how many people you can enroll. They don’t even need to sign up for an account. All you need is an Apple account. And they don’t have to be desktop computer users. iPhone and iPad users can use the iOS counterpart (Design Mob) to receive a design project through CloudKit.

In fact, you don’t even have to be constantly connected to the Internet. You can work on a design project locally. Once you are ready to push a project to CloudKit, make sure you are signed in to your iCloud account. And all team members will receive your design project with the click of a button.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – What a beautiful spring day! It was raining for days. Now, we have continuous sunny days. That’s what the spring season is all about, huh!?

Well, I know it’s been only 4 or 5 days since I released the last desktop application. And I’m ready to go for No. 2 of the month. This new release is called NameRanger 2.

The NameRanger is a 15-year-old desktop application project brought back to life. NameRanger 2 lets you rename all files and folders in a parent folder you select in a non-destructive manner. You can add an enumerating number to the beginning or the end of each file name and remove a certain number of characters from each name to make the modification list. Or maybe, you just want to change all letters to uppercase or lowercase? How about just removing all numbers, punctuation characters or currency symbols from each file name? If you have made a mistake and ended up with a list of files sharing the same name, click on the Undo button to revert to the last stack of file names. Only when you click on the Execute name changes button, will the application rename the files according to the modified file name list.

NameRanger 2 offers five different approaches to changing file names: Add, Subtract, Replace, Transform, and Remove. Additionally, you can select a particular file name in the list and change it to something else manually.

NameRanger 2 lets you create a recovery file so that you can restore original file names. After you execute name changes, click on the “Save Recovery File” toolbar button to create a recovery JSON file. When you realize that you made a mistake, let the application select this recovery file to restore the original file names.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – It’s quite warm in this spring season. The only problem is that it rains quite a bit. It rains three or four times a week. That’s too much. Hopefully, we have more sunny days so that we can appreciate beautiful cherry blossoms.

It’s been quite a while, but I’m ready to introduce a new desktop application for macOS users. This new release is called Showcase 1-2-3D 2.

Flat 2D images may be too ordinary to look at. So what about making them look like 3D images? Showcase 1-2-3D 2 is a simple tool by which you can turn 2D images into 3D in 1-2-3, rotating them around the x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis, giving them some depth, rounded corners, and colored sides besides the front surface. You can use multiple light nodes to cast light on the objects. Finally, click on the Export button to save the entire scene canvas as an image file.   Continue reading →

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 →