YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – I still don’t feel that the spring season has arrived in our area. It was unusually warm a week ago. I think the highest temperature was 20 °C. It was only 12 °C yesterday.

Anyway, It’s been only six days since I announced the last iOS app but I have a new one to introduce to you today. This new app is called. Robo Desk 2.

Robo Desk 2 is a virtual front desk assistant that is designed to answer visitors at your reception desk so that you can all concentrate on your own office assignment. If you like what Robo Desk 2 does, you can probably replace your human receptionists with an iOS device (preferably, iPad) running Robo Desk 2 in the future.

Robo Desk 2 lets you create a list of employees that your visitors to have an appointment with. It’s up to you as an office administrator to decide whether a visitor must have an appointment and select one to see. When a visitor taps the submit button, Robo Desk 2 will send a reception update to anyone responsible for the front desk. You can enlist as many front desk handlers as you need. Just send each of them an invitation. Once they accept your invitation, the handshake between the front desk handler and the administrator is complete.

So every time a visitor taps the submit button, the same reception update will reach all front desk handlers. And they will receive a notification alert. Shown in their screen is a list of visitation logs. They can select one and tap the magnifier button to see the details of the selected log.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – What an exhausting day… It’s another day of double releases. Earlier, I introduced a desktop application to you. Now, let me announce its iOS counterpart, which is called Travel Plans Mobile.

Travel Plans Mobile is a free iOS app for iPhone and iPad users. Using this app, you can directly receive your travel plan from travel agency through the iCloud server. This app is not developed for the sake of individual travelers who want to make their own itineraries. Therefore, you should talk to your travel agency and have your travel plan prepared so that you can receive it with this app.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – This is another day of double releases. Earlier, I introduced a macOS application called Supply Chain Central. The other half is Supply Chain Mobile. It’s an iOS app for iPhone and iPad users.

In the days of smart phone use, if you have a supply chain business, your retailers probably want a quick shipment update delivered to their phones and tablets and don’t want to let them down, do you?. Or your days may be numbered. Supply Chain Mobile works closely with its macOS counterpart called Supply Chain Central so that retailers and delivery truck drivers will get an instant shipment update sent to their iOS devices. So a supply chain company manager uses Supply Chain Central to create a shipment order and then pushes a shipment update with its location and an expected arrival date. They can enlist retailers and delivery truck drivers so that the same shipment update will be delivered to them at the same time. A retailer can tap the notification alert to see the details of the shipment update and may return an update to the supplier with a thanks note. The delivery truck driver may choose to return a shipment update to the supplier with the latest arrival date and time and the current shipment location.   Continue reading →

YOKOHAMA (Señor Tomato) – Besides the cold weather, I don’t like the winter season because the daylight time is short. I usually have dry skin, but I don’t this winter.

Anyway, the other software title of the double releases that I talked about in the last article is Sweet Hotel Work 2. It’s an iOS app for iPhone and iPad users.

Sweet Hotel Central 2 helps you run your hotel business whether you have hundreds of daily guests or are just renting vacant rooms after your kids left home for college. Sweet Hotel Central 2 lets you create room and guest records so that you can book reservations and maintain schedule on the weekly basis. Sweet Hotel Work 2 works with this desktop application side by side and lets you stay alert on the status of guest rooms while you are away from hotel management. It is designed such that you as a room service or repair service representative and a hotel manager share information remotely on the status (out of service, open, checked-in…) of each room.   Continue reading →

横浜 (トマトソフトウェア) – やっと冬至も過ぎ、少しホットしているこの頃ですが、この寒い中皆さんは如何お過ごしでしょうか？やはり寒い冬はイヤですね。夏も暑くて辛いですが、夏の方がまだマシです。自分は冬が大の苦手で、手のアカギレにかなり苦しんでいます。
　さて今日紹介する製品は7年以上に前に出荷した「Family Track」という製品の更新版です。「更新版」とは言っても、確かに製品を使う意図は同じでも完全にUIをSwiftUIで書き直し、「Family Track」にあるコードは全く参考にしなかったので、全くの別製品として仕上がりました。この「更新版」たる製品とはその名も「位置だよ戦隊2」です。
　「位置だよ戦隊2」は仲間同士で位置情報を共有するのが主な目的のiOS用（iPhone及びiPad）のアプリです。例えば、会社の同部署で働く人達に追随してもらうことで、ボタンを1回押すだけでその人達に同じ情報を同時に送ることができます。情報の受け取り側を「追随者」または「Follower」と言いますが、本アプリの地図に招待者（Leaders）のアイコンと名前が表示されます。個々のLeaderが発信ボタンをタップすると、その人の位置と簡単なメッセージが相手に即座に伝わります。しかも追随者達は通知を受けるので、誰が位置を更新したかがすぐに分かるのです。   Continue reading →