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 →

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 →