TOKYO (MacHouse) – More than 24 hours ago, Apple‘s Mac App Store rejected our software update for OrganizeX, an application for organizing and maintaining different kinds of accounts, by saying the following.


The app includes an Apple trademarked image. This does not comply with the Guidelines for Using Apple’s Trademarks and Copyrights.


I immediately installed the software package (v. 2.3.4) myself that I uploaded to iTunes Connect (software submission web site) earlier and confirmed that their claim was wrong. Then I subsequently gave Screenshot 1 to them. What’s wrong with the Home icon in the screenshot? We have no wild clue. They’ve made a similar accusation before with v. 2.2.1. In order to facilitate the review process for the sake of existing application users, we were forced to change the toolbar icon in question. And in fact they already approved OrganizeX 2.2.1 with the icon shown in Screenshot 1.

Screenshot 1

After I gave them Screenshot 1, things are actually worse. They now threaten to take down our iTunes account by saying the following.



You may want to take a look at your screenshots for the use of the Home icon.


We would be happy to remove your applications and account, and remove your apps from sale on the App Store if that is your desire. Please let us know.

Screenshot 2

If we don’t like Mac App Store, that’s because most of their rejection claims are baseless. And they keep going and going like Energizer Bunny. In this case, if you compare the toolbar icon in question with one from the System (See Screenshot 2.), it’s quite obvious that this reviewer has misunderstood the whole thing by listening to his or her imaginary friend. Hopefully, they’ll compare these two pictures and make a wise decision before taking down our iTunes account.

Nope. We have no intension of changing the toolbar icon in question. This case is a lot simpler than that. Some of Mac App Store are silly and often jump up to a conclusion. We are done with Mac App Store and the Mac platform any way.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – It’s not really a tradition yet since Mac App Store has been around for 9 months. But Apple, Inc. puts a hold on third-party software products and allocates a great deal of their resources to reviewing their own product if it’s a big one. That’s what happened last spring before they introduced

Mac OS X Lion. Indeed, they put a hold on some 20 software submissions from us. And they are doing it again. That’s certainly a sign that they are currently working on a big project. What is it? Our wild guess is iLife ’12. The last version of iLife was introduced on October 20, 2010. Other candidates are Logic Studio (None of its components except Compressor is yet available at Mac App Store.) and Final Cut Studio.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – We thought Img4Web was the last release of the month. Hell, we were wrong. The last software release of September (2011) is DeskControl.

DeskControl is similar to Ready2Work. to some extent. It allows the user to change basic system settings quickly. As a software developer, I’m forced to test applications under the Guest account. If you switch to the Guest account, you know that you have to set up your system from a scratch. Opening Finder‘s Preferences to display main volume, external drives, CDs/DVDs, add this folder and that folder to the sidebar, dah, dah, dah… And DeskControl makes switching accounts less stressful.

The beauty of this software title is that you can save your system settings in an application file (.dcl). If you just double-clicking on a saved file, you can load your system settings. Then just click on Run. If you switch accounts, you can still use the same saved file to load system settings.

Just as before, DeskControl is distributed as a freeware title. Why!? I’m too tired to submit it to Mac App Store. Besides, we don’t quite get along with them well, anyway. Though it’s a beta version, it’s fully functional and will expire in December 31st. It hasn’t even a day since I started developing DeskControl. So who knows whether or not it has some software bugs?






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DeskControl is a product of MacHouse.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Apple, Inc. is evil, and we are nearly done with the Mac platform. (And, yes, Mac OS X Lion sucks a big time for software developers.) It will take us another several months to release a Windows software title, though. Till then, enjoy our next Mac software release. This new software title is called Img4Web.

Img4Web is a batch image processor that allows the user to generate thumbnail images out of source pictures. It’s not an ordinary image processor because it will also generate an HTML code to encapsulate source and thumbnail images in a table. A table right below is an example.

Img4Web is currently available as a beta release, which anyone can be allowed to use without paying a penny. It will expire at the end of the year. Since it’s a beta release, there’s no User’s Guide. Furthermore, note that this application will not run under Mac OS X Lion. Version 1.1.0b is compatible with Mac OS X Lion. (10/15/11)






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Img4Web is a product of MacHouse.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – We are in a big transition as we intend to switch to Windows OS. That explains why we haven’t released many Mac software titles lately. Anyway, we’ve just introduced a new one. It’s called LittleClean

Source: MacHouse

LittleClean will let users batch-change file names in a particular folder.  All you have to do is create a new list of file names by removing letters or replace them with others after opening a source folder.  What you see in the middle pane is what you will get when you click on Execute.

It sounds similar to NameRanger? Hmm… Yes and no… NameRanger lets you append numbers in a particular folder while LittleClean allows the user to remove a letter or replace a letter with another.

Source: MacHouse

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LittleClean is a product of MacHouse.