TOKYO (MacHouse) – Microsoft has officially announced that they no longer deliver Setup Deployment, a project component used to build installers, with Visual Studio. In fact, Visual Studio 2012 doesn’t come with Setup Deployment. And it comes with a limited edition of InstallShield, which is not cheap if you want a commercial license. Meanwhile, if you are planning on submitting desktop applications to Windows Store, you must build a setup installer for each application. So what are alternatives to Setup Deployment? How about InnoSetup developed by Jordan Russell and Martijn Laan?

isScript is designed to simplify the programming process of writing InnoSetup code. InnoSetup is a great software title. But it can be a bit difficult to use when you use its Wizard to select this file and that file. And isscript covers some of InnoSetup weaknesses. And you can always save your progress so that you can open a file and continue to work on it when necessary. By the way, isScript is currently available as a freeware title, which also means that it doesn’t come with a user’s guide.






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isScript is a product of MacHouse.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – If you have a couple of pictures to compare, you may find Fotomato useful. Oh, yes. Fotomato is the second Windows software release of the month.

Simply put it, Fotomato (pronounced as photo-may-toe) is an image viewer. More precisely, Fotomato lets you view multiple images side by side horizontally or vertically. If you have two pictures to compare, just drag and drop each of them onto an empty slot. Now, you can let Fotomato display images as they are. Or choose Resizing Images under Image, and Fotomato will automatically resize your images.






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Fotomato is a product of MacHouse.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – If you have already tried out Microsoft‘s Windows 8 Consumer Preview or 90-day evaluation version of Windows 8, you will probably agree that it’s not the best thing to use when you have a bunch of photos. It can be quite annoying when all you want to do is just open a couple of photo files. But you will be forced to toggle between Desktop and Photos, wasting your valuable time.

HiGallery is a desktop Windows desktop application that lets you manage and organize photo files. Using HiGallery, you can create a web browser-based photo gallery. You can import as many as 512 pictures to a project. All it takes to browse photos is a web browser. It’s cross-platform. So you can use your web photo gallery on your Mac and Lixux computers, too. Or you can even post your photo gallery on a remote server so that anyone can check out your photos.






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HiGallery is a product of MacHouse.
jQuery is a product licensed by the jQuery Foundation.
HiGallery utilizes piroBox, a jQuery plugin designed by Diego Valobra.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Yesterday, we had to code-sign some 200 Windows files. We could still be code-signing files right now without a small application we’ve developed just for this purpose.

cSignHelper is a smaller desktop application that helps you when you code-sign Windows files. If you have dozens of files to code-sign, you really don’t want to manually append one text value after another to create a code-signing script. Using cSignHelper, just drag and drop a file (to code-sign) onto the top path field. Then click on the Generate button. Clicking on the Copy button, you now have a script on the clipboard. So open Command Prompt and paste it there. Finally, press Return.






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

TOKYO (MacHouse) – The four software title of the month is ready. This new Windows application is called Shapespeare.

Shapespeare offers a quick solution to creating simple collage images. It comes with five default shapes on which you can scatter pieces of repeated image clips. Or you can use own file to create a custom shape, which Shapespeare will turn into a black & white image.






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