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TYO Reach has been approved for the App Store. iPhone and Mac users can now install the same proxy app that's already on Windows, Android, and Linux — one account, all your devices.
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Hilia — hide files and photos inside ordinary pictures, then reveal them later from an encrypted on-device vault — has landed on the Apple App Store, as a free iPhone/iPad app and a new one-time-purchase Mac app, with the same decoy vault, split, scatter, and leaderboard features as Android.
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AI is genuinely good at inbox work — searching, summarising, drafting replies. The hard part for a small business is letting it near your email without it seeing everyone's. Here's the email connector we built for Microsoft 365 that any AI can use, with access enforced by Microsoft itself.
Read articleA new TYO product that buzzes your phone the moment something happens in your business — a new order, a site going down, a backup finishing — from any script or system, no app to build and no account.
Read articleSince HILIA's web launch, the original Android app has shipped a full redesign, a decoy vault for when you're pressured to unlock your phone, and a way to scatter hidden photos into your regular gallery so they don't stand out.
Read articleChoose where your traffic comes out, a connection that adapts to restrictive networks, usage limits that keep you online instead of cutting you off, and a preview of inward access for teams.
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HILIA brings invisible watermarking and file-hiding to the browser. Prove a photo is yours after it's been copied, send a sensitive file inside an ordinary image, and watermark proofs so a leak names its source.
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Generating one good product photo is easy. Getting a whole catalogue that looks like it came from the same shoot is the real skill — so here's the repeatable prompt formula we use, with recipes you can copy.
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Hiring a model, a photographer and a studio for a product shoot can cost a small business a day's takings or more. AI image generation now produces catalogue-quality model shots in minutes — here's where it works, where it doesn't, and how to try it.
Read articletrymq is our free playground for TYO MQ. We built a full chatroom on it — profiles, private rooms, live multiplayer games — then made private rooms end-to-end encrypted, so not even we can read the messages.
Read articleFrom China transport to Zero Trust access to cloud firewall automation — a lot has shipped since Reach launched. Here's what's new and what it means for your business.
Read articleReach started as a quick solution to a single concrete problem. Here's the story of how it grew into a full product — and the thinking that shaped it.
Read articleTYO Reach is a private internet gateway that routes your traffic through a secure exit node — so your requests appear to originate from wherever you need. Today we're opening it up to Australian businesses.
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