MacHouse - A World of Video Tutorials

TOKYO (MacHouse) - When you work with international customers, it is sometimes necessary that business owners like us know their local time. There are many time zones. And it will be hard to keep track of their local time when the summer nears because not all countries adopt the summer time adjustment.

Mac OS comes with a widget called World Clock. It’s a great tool. But a problem with it is that it won’t show the date. So you won’t be able to tell what day it may have become after you set a different time zone.

Soon to be introduced is our new Mac software title called GlobalClockz. GlobalClockz will let the user run (non-static) multiple international clocks simultaneously. You will be easily able to tell the date after selecting a new time zone. And you can’t even tell if it’s before or after noon.   (more…)

TOKYO (MacHouse) - Movie2Browse is a versatile application that allows the user to catalog movies, generate movie screenshots, convert movies to AVI, FLV, WMV formats, extract audio. Version 1.5, which will be officially released in several hours, will also allow the user to split the selected movie into multiple independent clips. sQTime will let the user split the selected QuickTime-based movie (M4V, MOV, MP4…) into any number of segments, whether it’s 100 or 10,000 of them. Version 1.5 also includes sMKV, which allows the user to split the selected Matroska-container movie into any number of independent clips.   (more…)

TOKYO (MacHouse) - Just released is a new software title called Movie2Browse. Movie2Browse is a successor of mBrowser, a freeware title that we first released about 2 months ago. Movie2Browse is not just an application that allows the user to catalog movie files. It’s a versatile multimedia application that allows the user to convert movies into AVI, FLV, WMV, extract audio, transcode QuickTime movies with different audio/video compressors, generate as many as 999 movie snapshots randomly or sequentially.   (more…)

TOKYO (MacHouse) - More than 40 hours ago, we reported a hostage crisis at MacUpdate (www.macupdate.com) to which we submitted two updates of our software products, BookmarksX 1.7.5 and DVD2Browse 1.1.0. It had been almost 60 hours since we made software submissions and feared that they expunged them intentionally or by accident. So we were obliged to contact MacUpdate. The following is a prompt reply from MacUpdate C.O.O. Misha.






According to the content editor working the shift when your submissions came in, neither the web pages of the apps in question nor the version metadata provided in the download links indicated that the new versions were available yet.






It appears that they have indeed expunged our software submissions. We are disappointed to know that MacUpdate has chosen to make our last 2 software submissions disappear whatever the reason was as its competitor VersionTracker has never lost our submissions in the past. Indeed, BookmarksX 1.7.5 and DVD2Browse 1.1.0 are listed at VersionTracker.

So MacUpdate just makes our software submissions disappear like that?






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TOKYO (MacHouse) - MacUpdate (www.macupdate.com) is a popular website for Mac users. It’s a place where software users look for and find what they need and where software developers submit their products. MacUpdate has some unique tools that its competitor VersionTracker (www.versiontracker.com) doesn’t have and make Mac users go back. Whether or not a majority of software users prefer MacUpdate to VersionTracker, software developers don’t necessarily share the same view. In fact, if you ask us, we would answer that we’ve had quite enough of MacUpdate’s harassment. MacUpdate appears to intensionally withhold our submissions. They do lose submissions for sure. They refuse to remove existing software profiles. The worst part is that they will tell you to remove blog articles that you write at your own website. If you refuse, they’ll give you trouble.

More than 15 hours ago, we attempted to update two software titles with MacUpdate. One is DVD2Browser. The other one is BookmarksX. The following screenshots suggest that these submissions would be reviewed ‘within a few hours.’ (See Screenshot 01-2.) These submissions have not been listed at MacUpdate yet. Most likely, they won’t be for the next 10 hours or so. So what has happened to our software submissions?

Screenshot 01 - Source: MacUpdate

Screenshot 02 - Source: MacUpdate

Screenshot 03 - Source: MacHouse

And what happened to the submission we made about 4 weeks ago? Back in January 9, we submitted a new software title (Junk-O-Magic) to MacUpdate. After waiting for more than 46 hours, we e-mailed them and asked what was going on. MacUpdate COO Misha replied   (more…)

TOKYO (MacHouse) - Soon to be released is a new software title called DVD2Browse. DVD2Browse allows the user to drag and drop a DVD disc/Video_TS folder onto a drop box. When imported, DVD2Browse will read the data to get DVD information (duration, movie dimensions, aspect ratio, frame rate) automatically, taking a screenshot. Then it will catalog the DVD.

As long as an imported DVD stays on your computer, the user is able to watch it with a click of Mouse. Simply, choose a media player of your choice like VLC Media Player and DVD Player from the Play button. And DVD2Browse will pass the selected DVD movie to your media player.






DVD2Browse is a product of MacHouse.

TOKYO (MacHouse) - Released as a beta version is mBrowserX. It’s supposed to be an advanced version of mBrowser. Unlike mBrowser, mBrowserX uses ffmpeg to decode video so that Auto shot can be used regardless of the media format. This development project has just started. And we don’t know if mBrowserX will ever become a full-fledged software title.

For now, we want to point out that

There is no User’s Guide for mBrowserX yet as it’s still a beta version. If necessary, please read mBrowser’s User’s Guide.






mBrowserX is a product of MacHouse.

TOKYO (MacHouse) - It’s been almost 2 weeks since we released a new Mac software title. Available soon is a new one called Junk-O-Magic Pro. Junk-O-Magic Pro is quite different from the previous one, Junk-O-Magic, that we released 2 weeks ago. Junk-O-Magic covers more than 3 dozen independent components. Some of them come from existing applications. And many of them have been developed just for this application.

As shown in the screenshots above, the entire application is divided into several areas. Such areas include finder, graphics, audio, movie, disc image and miscellaneous.   (more…)