TOKYO (MacHouse) – The rainy season officially started about a week ago here in Japan. Hopefully, it will be over in 2 weeks or so. What awaits us is a series of excruciating hot summer days. Hmm… Which is better, wet days but not-so-hot days or very hot days? Anyway, I submitted a new software title to Mac App Store a few hours ago. This new application is called Slice O Pict.

The objective of Slice O Pict is simple. It lets you slice a picture into horizontal or vertical pieces. Interestingly, if you want horizontal slices, you can decide whether you want to cut a picture into pieces, starting from the top or from the bottom. Similarly, if you want vertical slices, you can decide whether you want to cut a picture into pieces, starting from the left-hand side or from the right-hand side.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Some people seem to be happy with a desktop application called CutAround. Maybe, that’s because it’s easy to use? This application makes a top 100 paid application list for Graphics & Design at Mac App Store from time to time in some regions. So I’ve decided to create a new application based on CutAround. The result is… Well, I submitted a new software title to Mac App Store more than 10 hours ago. This new submission is called CutAround Extreme.

CutAround Extreme is an advanced version of CutAround, which is an existing desktop application available at Mac App Store. The latter only lets you clip a circular area of a picture. CutAround Extreme gives you a list of more than 40 shapes including a circle with which you can easily clip an area of a picture.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – When you use a picture that you have downloaded from the Internet, you never know what kind of resolutions you deal with. As you know, the default set of resolutions for Mac OS X is 72 ppi x 72 ppi. But we are surrounded by cheap computers running Windows OS where the default set of resolutions are 96 dpi x 96 dpi. Besides, there are a lot of digital cameras supporting high resolutions like 300 dpi x 300 dpi. So if you are not careful with image resolutions, you can put yourself in big trouble.

RezRex is a simple desktop application that I submitted to Mac App Store a few hours ago. It lets you alter resolutions on multiple images.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Here comes another major grade for an existing Mac application. A new software title that I submitted to Mac App Store more than 12 hours ago is called Movie2Shot 3.

Movie2Shot 3 is the 2nd major software upgrade to an existing software title. Its original objective hasn’t changed. And it’s designed to let the user save a movie screenshot at the current frame to their disk with a single click of a button without letting the application prompt them to name a file. Let the application watermark every movie screenshot you take. Let the application frame every movie screenshot you take with a flat color. Save random screenshots to your disk. Save frames only with human faces as pictures to your disk. Save movie screenshots… Well, Movie2Shot 3 offers you 5 different ways by which you can save movie screenshots to your disk.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – I’m back to the upgrade business again. That’s better than being unemployed, you know? And here comes a new software release that has been developed from a scratch. A Mac application that I submitted to Mac App Store about an hour ago is called FontsView 3.

FontsView 3 is the 2nd major software upgrade for a desktop application. Its ultimate goal is to help the user pick the best font among hundreds for a particular string. This software upgrade comes with several new features. What was missing in FontsView 2 is access to all typefaces. The user could use only bold and italic typefaces in the last version. The user now has access to all available typefaces.   Continue reading →