TOKYO (MacHouse) – It’s been two months since I submitted the last software title to Apple‘s Mac App Store or App Store. For the past two months, I’ve just wasted my time deciding what to develop. More specifically, I’ve been determined to create a simple iPhone game with either Sprite Kit or Scene Kit. Yet, due to my poor drawing skill, it’ll be very difficult for me to compete with other career game developers. Well, anyway, I’ve finally finished creating a simple game, which is called Three+.

Three+ isn’t really a match-three game like Candy Crush. It’s a game that requires elementary math skill. You just need to know how to add numbers. In this game, all you have to do is to combine the face numbers of three, four or five tiles to match the target number appearing at the top. Anyone can come up with three, four or five numbers to make 15. I bet you can pick multiple numbers to make 150. But can you pick right ones out of three dozen numbers in a matter of 30 seconds?   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – We all have fantasy that we don’t necessarily want to share with friends. Who doesn’t imagine becoming a ninja, an armed burglar, a voodoo doll… A mummy? A scarecrow? A gingerbread? Oh, no, not me… Before making an ultimate, life-changing mistake to make your childhood dream come true, try this app and see if you really want to be one of those masked figures. A new iOS app that I submitted to Apple‘s App Store several minutes ago is called Masked Man Or Woman.

Similar to Animal Me, the last iOS app that I introduced some ten days ago, Masked Man Or Woman lets you cover your selfie with a mask of your choice. Instead of allowing the user to take a camera photo from scratch, Masked Man Or Woman is designed such that it works with existing photos from Photo’s photo album.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Before this month ends, I have one more iOS app to introduce. The iPhone-only app that I submitted to Apple‘s App Store several minutes ago is called Animal Me.

Animal Me is similar to the last iOS app that I submitted to App Store. This iPhone-only app lets you turn your camera selfie into an animal. You have five animal costumes to choose from. Take a camera selfie through this app and then pick an animal costume. The app also lets you add a comment to your animal selfie.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – There are hundreds of people in my town who are willing to go through a painful operation to look like a Martian. Well, if you are one of them, you can use this app to see if it’s worth spening thousands of dollars to make yourself look like a Martian.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Personally, I don’t watch TV. I don’t even own a TV set. It’s not that I’m anti-social. Instead, I read news on the web. In fact, I’m a news junkie. I go to one news web site after another to read news a dozen times a day. I introduced a desktop application called NewsRoll to the OS X world about a year and a half so that I could read news from different sources at a time. It’s been quite a hit in many countries. So I now have a similar iOS app of this kind. It’s called AllNews.

Tom Bluewater

Tom Bluewater

AllNews is a mobile app for iPhone and iPad users who would like to read multiple RSS news feeds at a time instead of visiting one news web site after another. With this app, you don’t scroll a list of news captions. Rather, AllNews will scroll each line of news captions for you. So just watch them and tap a news caption that catches your eyes so that you can read the entire story with a web browser. The app comes with a built-in library of 100+ RSS links. So just pick one or more and get lines of news captions rolling.   Continue reading →