Posted by HOTTA Michihide | Posted on 30-07-2010
Category : Software
Tags: CUI, github, GPL, MIT License, OSS, Windows
Gow is one of OSS products for MS Windows.
For those who usually use Linux or Mac OS X, command line operations are real pains when they switch to Windows. As we have no choise but to use GUI on it, it would be convenient if we can do some work on a command line.

Over 130 commands
In that case, I used to use Cygwin. But I didn’t like it bacause of its frequent changes of registries and the naming “cygdrive” itself.
If you want to use just commands simply, try Gow.
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Posted by charbon | Posted on 29-07-2010
Category : Software
Tags: Freeware, GUI, Mouse, Utility, Windows
TouchpadPal is freeware for Windows. Personally, I’m no good with a mouse or a track pad, so I usually use a touch pad. Even with a desktop PC, I use an external keyboard with a touch pad. A touch pad is useful because we don’t need to move our hands from a certain position.

TouchpadPal avoids wrong operations of a touch pad
There is one weak point of the touch pad though it is useful. The weak point is that a cursor will move when we touch the touch pad while we enter characters. TouchpadPal will help this weak point.
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Generally speaking, the standard way of script layout is from left-to-right, meaning horizontal in the world of internet or may be the expression “in the world of computers” would be more appropriate. Even though we, meaning Japanese, feel quite confortable with this standards now, generally speaking in Japanese, the script layout is preferred to be written vertically when you’re talking about traditions. Taketori JS is an opensource software written in JavaScript Library which lets you convert horizontal text to vertical text.

Discover the beauty of Japanese traditional script layout!
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Posted by litols | Posted on 29-07-2010
Category : Software
Tags: GPL, JavaScript, Open source, PHP, plugins, Web, WordPress
Elastic Theme Editor is open source software developed by PHP and WordPress. WordPress grows up blog market in Japan from few years ago. We get many plugins and themes all of the world. There is no reason to not use.

You can set the width by dragging
Normally, designing theme is difficult. If you wish to easy, using Elastic Theme Editor. It’s more easy designing WordPress theme for developer and designer.
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Posted by eoswpp|skim | Posted on 29-07-2010
Category : Software
Tags: CakePHP, CMS, GPL, Open source, PHP, Web
BaserCMS is written in PHP as an open source CMS software by a Japanese company Catch Up. As you may know, we have many popular CMS softwares options now. For example in US people, it would be “Drupal”. For Japanese people, it would be “xoops cube” or so. These versatile CMS are very useful for us to build various kinds of web site because they are designed as multi-purpose CMS, …but sometimes we need to waste the time to decide how to use them indeed.

The default view with clean & modern outlook
BaserCMS is designed for people who are going to launch a corporation web site. I guess many people can feel “less is more” for this software. In addition to its simplicity, there’s enough room to be customized as CakePHP based software & we can extend the function by writing a plug-in.
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Posted by ryo | Posted on 29-07-2010
Category : Software
Tags: Icon, iPad, iPhone
IconUtility is freeware for Mac OS X.
If you create iphone&ipad icons yourself, It is harder than you expected it to be.
And it remains possible that your iphone application is not registed because of inadequate icons.

What is needed is only one image.
You need to create icons of various size, but it is troublesome task.
In such a case, IconUtility is so convenient.
IconUtility resizes an image into the correctly iPhone/iPad icon sizes.
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Screenwatcher is an open source software for Mac OSX. Do you remember the last time you changed the wallpaper? Or is your wallpaper still default?

Preference.
Mac OSX has a nice function of auto switching wallpapers. Setting websites as wallpapers using Active Desktop is also interesting. You need more impact? Screenwatcher is what you need.
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