Victor Agreda, Jr.

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Victor's introduction to technology was the Apple ][ his dad bought in late 1978. Since then he's used Amiga's, Commodore's, Tandy's, even a PC and a Mac or two. Victor's background includes 3d animation and filmmaking, a bit of web development and programming. He taught multimedia and game design for 5 years at a technical college. His favorite artifact: a cassette tape with Applesoft BASIC on it, copyright 1979, by Microsoft.

Victor Agreda, Jr.'s Latest Posts

ABC's iFactory report shows life at Foxconn

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 22nd 2012 1:30AM)

Update: You can now watch this full episode on ABC.com. (US only, of course) I just finished watching the ABC Nightline report cleverly named iFactory: Inside Apple. ABC's Bill Weir was given unprecedented access to Foxconn, where iPhones, iPads and Macs are assembled. If you've been following ...

iPhone stops a bullet, saves the life of a Rotterdam contractor

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 21st 2012 3:00PM)

Image: Shutterstock According to De Telegraaf, a 49 year-old Rotterdam contractor was shot at and an iPhone in his pocket may have helped stop the bullet from hitting his heart. According to my limited Dutch language skills and Google's translation, "The bullet went straight through my phone back ...

Daily iPhone App: World Live Cams

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 20th 2012 12:00PM)

An app for webcams for our Daily iPhone App? I have to admit, I'm a webcam junkie. There's something about being able to peek in on places around the world that seems like the future to me. Slothcam has always had a spot on my Dashboard (and I bought the app), but World Live Cams caught my ...

Daily Mac App: Gemini finds and removes duplicate files

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 15th 2012 3:30PM)

After years of buying hard drives and moving files around, digital hoarders like myself eventually wind up with duplicate files all over the place. A few gigabytes here and there can add up, so Gemini aims to help you find and delete duplicate files across devices. It's a beautifully designed app, ...

MacTech Boot Camp

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 15th 2012 11:00AM)

"MacTech Boot Camp is specifically designed for those techs and consultants supporting home users, small office/home office, and small-to-medium sized businesses. This one-day, hotel-based, seminar is designed specifically to help you be the most successful consultant you can be. Learn. Network. ...

AppCartel offers new crowdfunding opportunity for developers

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 14th 2012 9:30PM)

There's a lot more to building a business with your app idea than simply building the app. Having seen great apps wither on the vine due to bad marketing or poor planning, it's nice to see fresh efforts among developers who aim to enable great apps to find their market. AppCartel is a crowdfunding ...

Apps for Valentine's Day

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 13th 2012 7:00PM)

Image: Shutterstock Today's smartphones are, by their nature, quite versatile. It's impossible to guide every lover on Valentine's Day to the app for their particular needs, because despite the requisite "flowers, chocolate, *something*" expectations, we all do it differently. I tried to round up ...

Apple removes one iOS developer's copycat games

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 6th 2012 11:00AM)

Image: Shutterstock A few days ago, I caught a tweet from Paul Haddad (of Tapbots), showing a screen full of obvious copycat apps from one developer. Of course, anyone who has spent appreciable time on the App Store knows there are plenty of copycats out there. Not all of them are small shops, ...

iBackFlip Somersault available for preorder; watch creator explain improvements

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Feb 3rd 2012 7:30PM)

I met up with the guys behind iBackflip while at Macworld, and was impressed with their passion for design. Their first iBackflip was a pretty straightforward flip-down arm sling for the iPad. Using Velcro, it offered a basic black design and minimal extras. The new iBackflip Somersault, now ...

See beautiful time lapse images with Magic Window on your Mac, iPad or iPhone

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jan 28th 2012 5:00PM)

Magic Window was one of the first apps on the App Store when the store launched. It is a simple idea, but wonderfully executed and now available for the Mac as well as iOS. Magic Window is time-lapse photography -- for iOS it serves as a relaxing "picture window" and on the Mac it can play on your ...