TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – It was terribly hot till several days ago, and it’s been quite cool lately. But I know that the scorching summer is approaching that scares me quite a bit.

Didn’t I publish a new iOS app just last week? Believe it or not, I’m ready to go for another one. This new release is called CodeBlue Reader.

Some people commute. I did that for five days a week last year. When you write lines of code at a remote office and also at home, it’s difficult to share data between two or more locations. CodeBlue 6, a desktop application that is available at Mac App Store, is useful. But you may not be able to use it at your office. In fact, last year, I went home and do some homework by using CodeBlue to PDF-print some code snippets and load them with my old iPad almost every week day. That was tiring. Well, I have a better idea. How about developing an iPad app that lets me read CodeBlue 6 data so that I don’t have to go home and do homework? So this is it.

CodeBlue Reader is an iPad-only app that lets you read a code dataset for CodeBlue 6. You can switch groups with a finger tap. The title list shows five color levels of importance besides a plain level. If necessary, export the selected code snippet as a text file so that you can share it with other apps.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (Tom Bluewater) – It’s hot! And I’m angry. I’m so angry that I’ve decided to create a new iOS app in SwiftUI. The app that I spent three days in developing is called AngryNotes. Well, I just submitted it to App Store a few minutes ago. So it won’t be available for another two or three days.

AngryNotes is a plain text viewer and editor for iOS users. I don’t quite like Apple’s Notes for iOS in some respects. Notes lets you read and write text at the same time. So you can end up losing one when in fact you intend to select and copy a word. And it’s RTF-based. So you can end up with a mixture of regular and bold text styles if you copy and paste text from some web site. And my list goes on and on.

So here comes AngryNotes. It lets you read and write notes but not on the same board. AngryNotes is a plain-text reader. And you won’t end up losing a word or more when you just want to select and copy some segment of text. AngryNotes supports the contextual menu. When you read notes with it, you can select different text sizes and fonts.  Continue reading →