TOKYO (MacHouse) – A few days ago, Apple, Inc. (hereby, Apple) has released the first preview version of Mac OS X Lion for developers. Those who have signed up for one of the developer’s programs should have received an e-mail message for this notification. (See Screenshot 1.)

Screenshot 1 – Source: MacHouse

If you pay close attention to what’s going on in the past few days at the Developer Forums, there are quite a number of topics under the Installation section. In fact, there have been 16 pages of them at the time of writing this article. (See Screenshot 2.) Many claim that they cannot redeem the coupon they’ve received. Some say they cannot download the preview copy. Others say the download process stopped in the middle. They also say the Finder will constantly crash.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Last January, Apple, Inc. (hereby, Apple) started its Mac App Store, where the company says that software developers can “reach millions of users around the world.” It sounds like Apple offers an easy and exciting solution to independent software developers. Seeing it from the view point of software developers, Apple calls this online distribution system Mac Developer Program.

Screenshot 01 – Source: Apple, Inc.

So what do we know about Mac Developer Program? Reading publicly accessible web pages, you will learn that

      – program enrollment fee is $99
      – Apple will take 30% of every software sale
      – the Mac App Store is open to people in 90 countries

There is an untold version of the Mac Developer Program that you will never learn by accessing publicly accessible Apple’s web pages. In fact, one of the elements in the list above may not even be correct.   Continue reading →

TOKYO (MacHouse) – Software developers go through a lot of steps before selling one app at Apple’s Mac Apple Store A new software title we’ve just released is called AppReady. It will offer them a quick solution to getting their apps ready for sale at Mac App Store. Since it’s a beta version, it’s distributed as a freeware title for the moment.

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AppReady is a product of MacHouse.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – There are so many Mac software titles that handle image files. One is Adobe Fireworks. Another is Preview, which even comes as a free application with Mac OS X. They are great software titles. But they aren’t good enough for us when we have dozens of files to work with quickly. So we have built a graphic application of our own that let us do our job easily and quickly. It’s called Image2Go.

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Image2Go is a spin-off of an existing software title called Junk-O-Magic Pro. And we have updated its graphic part with numerous minor improvements, also adding a new component.

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Image2Go is very easy to use. And that’s the way we like it. Whether you want to batch resize a bunch of image files or just create favorite icons or Mac icons, there are just simple 3 steps to follow.

1. Launch Image2Go and select an image function by clicking on a tab panel button at the top.
2. Work on settings.
3. Drag and drop image files onto the drop box.

The initial release comes with 10 components. And you can save settings separately for each component. In the best scenario, when you launch and select a component to work on, there’ll be just one last step left – Drag and drop image files onto the drop box.






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Image2Go is a product of MacHouse.

TOKYO (MacHouse) – MacHouse is ready to introduce a new software title. The first Mac app of the month to release is called QuickMarks. Inspired by BookmarksX, QuickMarks is a quick solution to maintaining and organizing bookmarks and finding Google PageRanks corresponding to them. In order to add a bookmark, it’s simply the matter of dragging and dropping clipped text onto application’s drop box.

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If you have multiple URLs for which to find Google PageRanks, QuickMarks is a quick solution as well. And you can even export the result to a tab-separated text file (.txt).

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Click on the button for more information on QuickMarks.






QuickMarks is a product of MacHouse.