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 →

TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – The hottest month is over. But it’s still hot even in September. Well, I had a record number of releases in July. Then I had only one release. And I’m releasing the first title of the month. It’s a macOS software title. This new software release is called CopyReady 3.

CopyReady 3 is the revival of a 15-year-old desktop application title. It lets you manage three different types of files: Text, Image and URL. After you create a group, drag and drop a textClipping file (.textClipping), an image file (.gif, .jpg, .pdf, .png, .tif…) or a URL file (.webloc) onto the top drop box with a droplet. When you click on a light blue copy item button under the current group button (in red), CopyReady will copy the corresponding text content into the system clipboard. So you can just paste it over a text file by pressing Command + V. When you click on an orange copy item button, CopyReady will copy the corresponding image into the system clipboard. So you can open it with Preview by choosing New from Clipboard under File. Finally, click on a light green copy item button, and CopyReady will open the corresponding URL with your default web browser.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – I had News Junkie 4 Mobile released last week. So you know what you expect. A new software title that I submitted to Mac App Store a few minutes ago is called News Junkie 4.

Formerly known as AllNews Desktop 3, News Junkie 4 lets you read auto-scrolling news from multiple sources at a time with your desktop computer. News Junkie 4 comes with a built-in library of more than 2,100 news feeds from 100+ media sources. You can read auto-scrolling news with your hands free.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – It’s been a crazy month this July since I have published 6 iOS apps so far this month. Yet, I’m ending it with another release. You must have guessed it. This new submission to Mac App Store is Movie2Shot 4, a desktop conversion of the previous release.

Movie2Shot 4 lets you take movie screenshots, watermark them and save them to your disk. It lets you play back videos, supporting several media formats including M4V, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG. Using Movie2Shot 4, you can take multiple movie screenshots at a time and scan all frames with faces.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – It’s a rainy season in June in the Tokyo area. So it’s quite sticky. In a few weeks, we will have continuous hot days that will last till mid-September. Anyway, I just submitted a new desktop application called LittleCal 4 to Mac App Store several minutes ago.

If you have used LittleCal 3, I am sorry, but it’s dead. It was short-lived as it has turned out that its status menu was incompatible with macOS 15 (Sequoia). Unfortunately, there was no way of fixing it. LittleCal is one of several long-lasting series that I use as desktop applications. Its future was grim at first since I had to get rid of its status menu. In the end, LittleCal has become a fine weekly schedule planner.  Continue reading →