TOKYO (MacHouse) – If you are a PC user, you probably know Microsoft will release Windows 8 at the end of this October. It’s pretty much obvious that the release of Windows 8 is nothing but their attempt to get people interested in the Metro design. Microsoft wants people to get used to the Metro design, hoping that they’ll also buy Windows phones and Windows-installed tablets. The traditional Start button is gone. And desktop users have to go through the tile screen, whether they like it or not.

Source – MacHouse

Also, don’t forget that they are opening Windows Store. What is Windows Store? It’s a desktop application store that can be easily accessible from the tile screen. You may have heard that Microsoft will get the 30% share while software developers get the 70% of the revenue by selling their applications at Windows Store. It sounds familiar, doesn’t it? It’s not exactly the same as Apple‘s Mac App Store, though. How are they different? We will get to that in a minute.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – When you run a business by yourself, you have to do a lot of things – things that you like and things that you don’t like – for yourself. Personally, I hate to do taxes. I also hate to edit web pages. It’s boring. Speaking of editing web pages, I use a template package, just replacing one string with another over several pages, whenever I release a new software title. And I wish I could just click on a single button so that an application could do it all over several files. It’s a simple wish that could save 10 minutes of my valuable time. How about using Adobe‘s Dreamweaver? Well, Dreamweaver is a great web script editor and has a powerful Find/Replace feature. But you still have to run a search manually on each page. If you have the same request, your wait is over.

Replace123 makes my wish come true. Whether you have one or 50 web pages, Replace123 lets you replace a string with another over those files at a time quickly. It’s not just HTML files that Replace123 can handle. It can read many types of text stream files including asp, php, pl, txt, xml…

This software title is currently distributed as a freeware title as it’s still in beta. You can use it without limitations till August 1, 2012. It’s been tested for Windows 7 64-bit.

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Replace123 is a product of MacHouse.
Windows is a product of Microsoft Corporation.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – We thought we ended the month of May with SmallCal. We were wrong. In fact, we have double releases again. The first Windows software title to introduce is Foldergeist.

Foldergeist can be a useful application, which lets you create multiple copies of a folder containing certain files and folders. Whenever we start with a new software project, we simply use a pre-defined package that contains a certain file and a VisualBasic template folder. By using Foldergeist, we can cut a few steps like creating a new folder, locating template files and folders, duplicating them… The beauty of Foldergeist is that it will let you create any number of copies, naming them automatically.

This software title is currently distributed as a freeware title as it’s still in beta. You can use it without limitations till August 1, 2012. It’s been tested for Windows 7 64-bit.

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Foldergeist is a product of MacHouse.
Windows is a product of Microsoft Corporation.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – When we get stuck in finding a subject for which to develop a new software title, we also consider the possibility of bringing an existing Mac application to Windows. And we are ready to introduce the second software release of the day. It’s called SmallCal

SmallCal is a Windows conversion of an existing Mac software title called LittleCal Pro. SmallCal is a virtual calendar with which which you can record time-sensitive events. Unlike other software titles, SmallCal’s main window is quite small and takes a small portion of your desktop space so that you can launch it at any time while using other applications. You can use SmallCal to remind yourself of events that are scheduled to occur within a specific time frame.

This software title is currently distributed as a freeware title as it’s still in beta. You can use it without limitations till August 1, 2012. It’s been tested for Windows 7 64-bit.

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SmallCal is a product of MacHouse.
Windows is a product of Microsoft Corporation.