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 →

TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – It’s getting hotter here in the Tokyo area while it rains quite a bit at the same time. Anyway, I just submitted a new desktop application called TextJungler 2 to Mac App Store several minutes ago.

When you write code to develop an iPhone app or a desktop application, you really need a plain text editor such that you can quickly edit lines of code. I used to use TextEdit to edit code. But that was a decade ago. TextJungler 2 is one of those plain text editors that let you change the text color, text size, font family, font typeface, background quickly with a drop-down menu.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – I feel like it’s been many months since the last, long winter was ongoing. My favorite summer is arriving to the Tokyo area soon. Anyway, I just submitted a new desktop application called Remind Me Quick to Mac App Store a while ago.

Pretty much every day, I use an electricity-powered sandwich maker to make a grilled sandwich with cheese in it. After forgetting to turn off the power a few times and nearly burning my sandwiches, I’ve decided to make a simple desktop application to remind myself of not forgetting to turn off the switch in 5 minutes. So I’ve spent two hours and then another some 36 hours enhancing it, and voila! It’s Remind Me Quick.

Remind Me Quick is very simple to use. Just select a wait time with a drop-down menu. And click on the Remind me button. And it will show you the remaining time. Then, what!? Just concentrate on other things. When the time finally comes, Remind Me Quick will remind you of an event with a flashing screen and a sound. See Settings under Remind Me Quick to control over how to remind you of an event with or without a flashing screen and a sound.   Continue reading →