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SchwanSongs - Software
Bringing Software to Delight!
Offering you a variety of educational and entertainment applications for Macintosh and iPhone/iPad
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Ask FortunaNeed some Instant Karma? A Zen Zinger? Funny Fortune? Ask Fortuna... she has a cornucopia of suggestions and smiles! Free -- for Macintosh and iPhone/iPad |
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Whirlwind WordSearchSearching for a good Macintosh puzzle-maker? We've got the solution right here! Whirlwind WordSearch is a Macintosh word search puzzle maker which creates and prints uniquely engaging word search puzzles from your own lists of words. It supports many different shapes, sizes, fonts, languages, and difficulty levels. You will be building and printing professional-looking puzzles right away. Free "Lite" version, Full version for $19.99 USD, Pro upgrade for +$59.99 USD -- for Macintosh |
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Minos Maze MakerMinos Maze Maker is a powerful maze generator that makes beautifully shaped and customized mazes and their solutions. Make them sweet and easy, or make them diabolically difficult. You can print the mazes or export them into your newsletters, puzzle-books, school handouts, or the web.Free "Lite" version, Full version for $14.99 USD, Pro upgrade for +$29.99 USD -- for Macintosh |
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Pattern BlissPattern Bliss is a unique graphic design tool that generates limitless seamlessly tiling abstract patterns. Create background patterns for brochures, designs for coloring books, custom wrapping paper, and even wrap frames around your own photos. All graphics you make are yours, royalty/copyright-free. Free "Lite" version, Full version for $4.99 USD -- for Macintosh and iPhone/iPad |
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RomanoffInstantly convert between Arabic numbers, Roman Numerals, and Japanese/Chinese numbers on your iPad or iPhone. Display the more complex Japanese/Chinese 'banking' characters too. Free -- for iPhone/iPad |
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LyttonyLyttony is a rather novel sentence-generator that creates millions of original and thought- provoking story-openers. This is useful for both teachers and students in creative writing classes, authors or writing clubs needing new inspiration, or just quick ideas for daily writing practice. Full version for $0.99 USD -- for Macintosh and iPhone/iPad |
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Bingo GenieDo you want to easily create your own beautiful customized BINGO cards for your classroom, party, or company event? Your wish has been granted. Now you can quickly design your own custom cards, adding your list of text for the boxes in your choice of fonts and colors, and then print your cards, like magic. Everything should be this easy. Free "Lite" version, Full version for $14.99 USD -- for Macintosh |
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Sub CipherNeed to create or decode those simple cryptogram puzzles, or send a secret message? Sub Cipher is an easy-to-use Encoder/Decoder app, which can encode or decode "simple substitution ciphers." It works on the "Caesar" and "Atbash" style cipher methods, which are simple offset-alphabet ciphers. Free -- for Macintosh and iPhone/iPad |
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Sheer AbstractionsMessages Sticker PackCaptured here are hundreds of gossamer patterns to adorn your thoughts and enhance the mood as you chat with friends. These warmly colored patterns, from simple to complex, are partly transparent to allow your words (or other stickers) to playfully hide or show through, adding a stained glass sparkle to your conversations. Read more at the main product page here: Sheer Abstractions Free -- for iPhone/iPad, iOS 10 and newer |
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Pass the Phrase"Pass the Phrase" is an intriguing new phrase generator for your iPhone, iPad, and Macintosh. It creates bazillions of sweetly memorable random multi-syllable or multi-word phrases, useful as pass-phrases or passwords, secret-names for your next project, or possibly great new business names. Free -- for Macintosh and iPhone/iPad |
Do you want to help me with existing software, or some of the new secret ones below? Want to offer suggestions for new features, and get your hands on the software before anyone else does? Interested in getting a free copy when it ships, with your name in the credits?
I am often looking for people to help with icon design, User Interface layout, proof-reading, feature ideas, and beta testing... these are fun no-pressure volunteer projects.
If you are interested in helping, send me an e-mail!
Drawing out arbitrarily long addition or multiplication equations to lay into puzzles for math practice.
Learn the ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, at least the first couple dozen... Flash-Card practice.
Sudoku generator, making beautiful sudoku puzzles for you to print/publish.
Noisy Amazeballs, pla-chinking around the screen in a pentatonic way.
I have written software for various large companies (Intuit, Jostens Learning, GoPro, Hewlett-Packard) as well as small companies (MicroTac/Globalink, Gryphon Software.)
I was primary (pro bono) Mac developer for 8 years on the POV-Ray team (1990s), and wrote a 200 page tutorial book on the software, published/sold by Waite Group Press.
I was author of the shareware Quicktime movie-maker utility "MooVer" (which was awarded 5 mice and licensed to be included in numerous printed books and magazines internationally.)
I also wrote factory automation software for Teleplex Corp., and was co-inventor on 2 patents.
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