YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – I have been using a Silicon Power Stream S03 USB 3.2 1TB, an external 2.5-inch external hard disk drive for probably a decade or longer. To my dismay, my Mac mini stopped reading data from this HD on the 14th of this month. I have it store all my Xcode projects and sample Xcode projects. That really hurts. Is the data all gone? I thought it was. Wait, it’s one of the twin brothers. I have another HD from Silicon Power that I purchased right at the same time. So what if I take the HD out of the dead external device and put that HD in the good guy? A major issue was how do I crack-open these external HD cases? I’ve searched the Interent, but there are no videos or tutorials.  Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – Hot, hot, hot! The summer is here. It’s a scary thought that we have to endure this scorching heat for the next 60 days or so. I heard that it’s been quite hot in France and that some people have passed away because the French don’t use air conditioning.

Do you remember that Apple, Inc. used to have iTunes (.app) with which we could listen to streaming music from the Internet radio stations for free? Music (.app) replaced it in October, 2019. So there is no more free streaming music from the Internet radio.

Radio Crazy is a desktop application for which I only spent some 15 hours in developing. Radio Crazy lets you listen to streaming music from your favorite Internet radio stations. It supports several music genres, each of which is further divided into smaller groups. Select one. If you find an interesting station, click on the Play button to test-play it. Then click on the + button to save the station.

Some Internet radio stations broadcast the music title that they are currently playing. Radio Crazy will scroll it from right to left slowly. If you want to capture it, you can simply click on the Copy button.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – I don’t know when they started it, but Apple, Inc. allows us to upload a video to showcase our software. However, there are several specifications that our videos must meet. If you record a video on your iPhone or iPad while testing the app and then upload it as it is without changing anything, it won’t be accepted. To add to the insult, you will be forced to wait as long as an hour or two just to find out that they won’t accept the video you have uploaded. If you want to know why Apple, Inc makes video-showcasing software so difficult, help is on its way.

Mock Video is a desktop application for which I only spent 36 hours developing it. In fact, I am one of those who tried to upload a Preview Video at iTunes Connect back in March or April (2026) and ended up wasting my valuable time. Oh, yeah, I even took Gemini’s advice and used iMovie to create a Preview Video. But it didn’t work. So what makes me think that iTunes Connect will accept a video from this application? Just as shown in the lower row of the screenshot table below, I have been able to upload them for an iPhone app and a desktop application there successfully. And I have learned a lot of lessons while working on Quick Sub 2 and Quick Sub Mobile, which has given me a lot of confidence in developing Mock Video. At the very moment when I had the idea of developing this application, I was certain that I could do it although I never succeeded in uploading Preview Videos to iTunes Connect earlier.

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Mock Video alleviates the cumbersome task of making your recorded video comply with Apple’s Preview Video specifications. All you have to do is drag and drop a video into the drop box, adjust the final duration, and then click on the Export toolbar button. Mock Video does an excellent job of exporting your final videos without distorting the original content while meeting the size specifications.

Mock Video doesn’t just support mobile phone models but all devices, including all tablet models, desktops, the TV device, and the Vision device. Moreover, you have the option of selecting the Portrait or Landscape orientation.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – It was just three days ago that I released the last software title. Well, I cannot think of a better thing to do than to release a new product at the end of the month. It may sound shocking to some of you, but I only spent two full days or less to develop this desktop application. This new software release is called Mock Craft.

It’s good to know that Apple, Inc. provides us with resources that we can use to advertise software. There are bezel images that you can use at their web site. Yet, it’s not so easy to use some of them because iPhone X models have a horizontal, ellipse-shaped hollow area to contain the camera lens. Mock Craft lets you easily create matadata images by combining one of these bezel assets and your screenshot from a device or a simulator for iOS. It’s not just iOS device bezel assets that this application supports. You can also use desktop bezel images of iMac 24-inch models, MacBook Air Models, MacBook Pro models and MacBook New models to create your marketing images.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – It’s been raining almost all day. But I managed to go grocery-shopping this morning. I wanted to go jogging since I was unable to yesterday. But when I got out after coming back home from grocery-shopping, it was too late.

Well, well, well… I have an old desktop application project that I abandoned last May. I was pretty much ready to send it to Mac App Store. But I changed my mind in the last minute because I didn’t like the application icon. I didn’t like the application name, either. But I’m back with this application. This new release is called Orphan Guard 2.

Yeah, I had a desktop application titled Local Strings several years ago. Orphan Guard 2 is a sequel. Orphan Guard 2 lets you scan your Xcode project to see if there are view files (NSViewController, UIViewController, SwiftUI’s View) referring to non-existing local keys in the Localizable.strings file. But that’s not all it does. When you forget to end each line with the semicolon in the Localizable.strings, Xcode will give you a compiler error. But it won’t tell you which line gives you trouble. If you have thousands of lines in the Localizable.strings file, basically, it is impossible to find the line causing the compiler error. But it is possible for Orphan Guard 2 to find lines that can cause compiler errors.   Continue reading →