TOKYO (MacHouse) – After releasing the last Mac desktop application, we’ve been absent for a week. Wait… We actually submitted a new desktop application to Mac App Store several hours ago. This new software release is called HiGallery.

HiGallery is an easy solution to managing and organizing pictures. HiGallery allows the user to create a browser-based photo collection that can be viewed across different operating systems. Use your favorite web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari…) to browse photos. Add titles and descriptions to pictures. Save your project at any stage. You can make your photo collection a slideshow powered by jQuery, which can automatically switch pictures.

What you get is a browser-based photo collection. So what you create with HiGallery is a browser-based photo collection. You can enjoy viewing your photos on your desktop computer (Open the html file in the export package with a web browser of your choice.) or post it on a remote server so that other people can view it.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – As Apple, Inc. damands that all software submissions to Mac App Store be sandboxed, things can go difficult. It’s not just the application itself that you have to codesign. You have to manually codesign child process files like command-line tools, AppleScript files, AppleScript apps. We can name a few applications that contain more than three dozen command-line tools in their packages. Signing them all manually can take at least minutes, if not hours.

DotEntitled is a Mac desktop application that lets you codesign child process files that you run with your application through NSTask or equivalent all at a time. Apple, Inc. requires that these child process files be codesigned with an entitlement sheet. Not a big deal… Using DotEntitled, you can either select an existing file, or let DotEntitled create one for you.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – So we started developing Mac software titles again last month. We’ve released five applications so far. A couple of them are already available at Mac App Store. We released the last Mac application just four days ago. And we are ready to introduce another one. It’s called audioKut.

audioKut is a Mac desktop application that lets you divide one or more audio clips into segments of an equal duration. You specify the equal segment duration in terms of the number of seconds or minutes. And audioKut will cut them into pieces all at a time.
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TOKYO (MacHouse) – We were pretty sure nsCherry would be the last release of the month till a few days ago. I guess we have one more application to introduce this month. A new Mac software title we submitted to Mac App Store about 15 minutes ago is called CodeBlue.

We’ve developed CodeBlue so that we can manage and organize Objective-C programming code snippets for Mac OS X and iOS comprehensively. CodeBlue lets you classify code snippets into different fields. You can create as many as fields as you need. And you can create as many code snippets as you have under each field. Set keywords, which the application will syntax-highlight.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Life was a bit tough while we were developing iOS applications. Why!? That’s because it was so painful for us to come up with one idea after another. For now, what you can do with iPad is limited. We don’t even use iPad and iPod Touch, which we of course own. You can’t develop a good product for a device that you don’t daily use, you know? Sometimes, it took us a week or 10 days to come with a new development idea. Now, we are developing Mac OS applications with Objective-C. Although Mac software development is a lot tougher, there are still a lot of subjects to cover. That partly explains why we were able to release three relatively small Mac software titles in six days.

Anyway, we just submitted a new software title to Mac App Store. It’s the 4th one of the month. This software release is called nsCherry.

nsCherry is a desktop application that allows the user to look up domain information and see which domain is open (available) for purchase and which is already registered across various top-level domains. You enter a name (base name) and then come up with a list of top-level domains (com, net, co.jp, net.uk, …) so that the application will put them together to create a list of domains to look up. nsCherry comes with a built-in list of more than 750 top-level domains covering 34 countries/regions. So you can pick a regional list from the menu, or you can just manually enter top-level domains one by one. You can save a top-level domain list as a project file (.nsc) so that you can use the same list over and over.   Continue reading →