Do you have a Mac computer with USB 3.0 connection? If you do, read on. Apple, Inc. announced a line of iMac models in late 2012, which the company began shipping in January, 2013. These iMac models have USB 3.0 ports. Also, Apple released the second generation of iMac models with USB 3.0 connection in September, this year.

For the past 3 months, I’ve endured a severe Internet connection issue, which finally came to an end several hours ago. Sort of… At least, I’ve finally found out the firm source of the problem. What Internet connection issue? It’s a long story.

iMac spring 2011 (left) and iMac 2012-2013 (right)

iMac spring 2011 (left) and iMac 2012-2013 (right)

Last early September, my 2-year-old iMac broke down. It turned out that this iMac had a defective video card. It’s AMD Radeon 6970M. Fortunately, Apple, Inc. initiated a video card replacement program in August, 2013. So I had to send this 2-year-old iMac to Apple for free repair. That was around September 3, 2013. I have a spare machine running Mac OS X 10.6.8. I was going to buy a new iMac after Apple released Mavericks. Oh, whoa… I had no choice. I was in the middle of developing Buttons123, I think. So I didn’t want to kill the fun while waiting for iMac to return from repair. You never know when a computer will return home after repair. That’s why I decided to buy a new iMac. The model that I bought was first shipped in January, 2013. It’s the first model with USB 3.0 supported.

September 2013 was a horrible month. First, I had to buy a new iMac. That 2-year-old iMac is still severely injured. Apple repair person said that they found a couple of issues – the internal speakers and the DVD drive are broken. And they said replacing the logic board could cost Â¥45,000 (US$450) or so. Then a 2-year-old WiFi router died at the same time. So I was forced to buy a new one. That’s when I realized that tablets are useless. I was not able to use my iPad mini without a WiFi router.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – A few days ago, we released TimeINTL. And we just submitted an extension version of TimeINTL to Mac App Store about an hour ago.

TimeINTL Extended Edition is a desktop application that lets you build your own international clock system, keeping track of the time with analog clocks at multiple locations around the world. It’s an extended version of TimeINTL, an existing software title. TimeINTL lets you keep track of the time at 54 locations while this application gives you access to additional 31 cities with a total of 85 locations around the world. These additional 31 cities include Antananarivo (Madagascar), Lima (Peru), Quito (Ecuador), Sofia (Bulgaria), Lisbon (Portugal), Asunción (Paraguay), San Juan (Puert Rico), La Paz (Bolivia), Algiers (Algeria), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Kinshasa (Rep. of Congo), Tripoli (Libya), Dakar (Senegal), Dallas (US), Havana (Cuba), Winnipeg (Canada), San José (Costa Rica), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Kabul (Afganistan), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Yangon (Burma), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Vladivostok (Russia), Manila (the Philippines), Kathmandu (Nepal), Adelaide (Australia), Baghdad (Iraq), Ulan Bator (Mogolia), Krasnoyarsk (Russia), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Port-au-Prince (Haiti). Original locations include Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China), Mumbai (India), Jakarta (Indonesia), Sydney (Australia), Perth (Australia), Moscow (Russia), Dubai (UAE), Athens (Greece), Jerusalem (Israel), Nairobi (Kenya), Cape Town (South Africa), Lagos (Nigeria), London (UK), New York City (US), Chicago (US), San Francisco (US), Mexico City (Mexico), Caracas (Venezuela), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Santiago (Chile), Wellington (New Zealand), Madrid (Spain), Paris (France), Rome (Italy), Geneva (Switzerland), Dublin (Ireland), Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Berlin (Germany), Oslo (Norway), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Kiev (Ukraine), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Novosibirsk (Russia), Hong Kong (China), Guangzhou (China), Shanghai (China), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Singapore, Taipei (Taiwan), Islamabad (Pakistan), Bangkok (Thailand), Seoul (South Korea), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Cairo (Egypt), Toronto (Canada), Vancouver (Canada), Denver (US), Honolulu (US), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Bogota (Columbia), Tehran (Iran), Colombo (Sri Lanka).

Using TimeINTL, it’s up to you to decide how many analog clocks to run for which cities. You can run several dozens of analog clocks at the same time. It’s also up to you to decide where to position which clock around the application window.

Note that the application window will occupy the desktop area with a size of 1,600 x 1,232 points.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Whether you sell actual goods or digital goods, it is important that you know where they are located when customers contact you. You definitely don’t want to call up a customer when he or she is asleep. Inevitably, you need a software application that lets you run multiple clocks. There are many desktop applications like that. We have a couple of them for the Mac platform. A new software title that we submitted about an hour ago lets you run multiple analog clocks as well. This new software submission is called TimeINTL.

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TimeINTL is a desktop application that lets you build your own international clock system, keeping track of the time with analog clocks at multiple locations around the world. When it comes to setting up analog clocks, you have 54 locations to choose from. These cities include Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China), Mumbai (India), Jakarta (Indonesia), Sydney (Australia), Perth (Australia), Moscow (Russia), Dubai (UAE), Athens (Greece), Jerusalem (Israel), Nairobi (Kenya), Cape Town (South Africa), Lagos (Nigeria), London (UK), New York City (US), Chicago (US), San Francisco (US), Mexico City (Mexico), Caracas (Venezuela), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Santiago (Chile), Wellington (New Zealand), Madrid (Spain), Paris (France), Rome (Italy), Geneva (Switzerland), Dublin (Ireland), Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Berlin (Germany), Oslo (Norway), Helsinki (Finland), Istanbul (Turkey), Kiev (Ukraine), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Novosibirsk (Russia), Hong Kong (China), Guangzhou (China), Shanghai (China), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Singapore, Taipei (Taiwan), Islamabad (Pakistan), Bangkok (Thailand), Seoul (South Korea), Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Cairo (Egypt), Toronto (Canada), Vancouver (Canada), Denver (US), Honolulu (US), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Bogota (Columbia), Tehran (Iran), Colombo (Sri Lanka).

Using TimeINTL, it’s up to you to decide how many analog clocks to run for which cities. You can run 1, 2, 10, 20 or 30 clocks. You could run as many as 54 clocks at the same time as long as space allowed. It’s also up to you to decide where to position which clock around the application window.

Note that the application window will occupy the desktop area with a size of 1100 x 762 points.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Life is full of disappointments and failures. Once you feel that your work is not good enough, it can take months, if not years, to overcome your own phantom. That’s where we are at right now. Nothing that we develop is good enough. And we just waste days, doing nothing. For that reason, we are most likely to release just one or two software titles this month and next.

Luckily, we managed to release the second software title of the month to Mac App Store a few hours ago. This new software submission is reLocateer.

The objective of reLocateer is based on our urgent need. Imagine a situation where you have dozens of folders, just as shown above, if not hundreds. And you need to explore each folder to collect its content. You don’t manually want to explore hundreds of folders to collect all files and folders. That’s why we’ve developed reLocateer.

reLocateer is a desktop application that lets you quickly move the contents of any number of folders to another under the same volume. reLocateer doesn’t copy files under one volume and then paste under another. Therefore, you must select a destination folder under the same volume where all source folders reside.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – It’s been quite some time since we released the last application, which is SimplyClip. Finally, we managed to submit the first Mac software title of the month to Mac App Store a few hours ago. This new release is called goSplash.

goSplash lets you make pictures striking by placing a splash background image behind them. This splash background image has two alternating colors that come out of the center (splash center). You have control over this splash background image size, and you will get to place a picture, which you can position and resize with your mouse.   Continue reading →