Victor Agreda, Jr.

Editor in Chief

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

Pitch Perfect is the perfect marketing primer for the indie developer

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 25th 2012 12:00PM)

If you're a developer with an app and a dream, you would do well to pick up Pitch Perfect by TUAW's Erica Sadun and Steve Sande. Their book lifts the veil on how app reviewers, bloggers specifically, operate. Most of the advice I give to people looking to pitch an app is in this book. Added to the ...

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Untethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch now available

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 25th 2012 10:15AM)

This is super good news for the jailbreak crowd. GreenPois0n Absinthe 2.0 is out for iOS 5.1.1 untethered jailbreaking enjoyment. Absinthe is an easy solution for jailbreaking, and going untethered is pretty awesome. Excellent work by Chronic Dev Team and pod2g. Absinthe works on A4-powered ...

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IndieDevLab goes free

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 24th 2012 6:00PM)

While TUAW will be at IndieDevLab hoping to get a look at upcoming (awesome) apps, we just got some great news for developers who wish to attend. Thanks to sponsorships, the price of the event just went free (just like Appsterdam, which will also be hosting a weeklong coworking space where yours ...

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Hack in the Box conference features iPhone Dev Team

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 24th 2012 3:40PM)

Turns out there are awesome conferences all over the world, and the hotness of mobile has only increased the number of quality get-togethers out there. Case in point: Hack in the Box, currently underway in Amsterdam. Learn more about the conference here or check out the agenda here. Friday ...

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Introducing a better mobile web experience for TUAW

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 24th 2012 3:20PM)

Remember when the iPhone debuted and tuaw.com crashed mobile Safari? Good times. We quickly rolled out i.tuaw.com as an interim solution, but it was very stripped down and not ideal. We eventually added the ability to visit the full site, and the full site no longer crashes Safari (and looks ...

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The TechCrunch iPad app is slick and simple

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 24th 2012 11:15AM)

If you're looking for an app-based TechCrunch experience on your iPad, here it is. The iPad app is a streamlined experience over the site in Safari, presenting a simple list of categories to choose from, and 3 basic feeds: the main river (which can be narrowed using those categories), trending ...

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Google search app for iPhone, iPad re-designed

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 23rd 2012 12:15PM)

For some reason I hadn't quite relegated the Google Search app on my iPhone to a folder, where most apps go to die. But it should have. The old Google Search app was atrocious -- a seemingly willful expenditure of effort on something so terrible it would serve to dissuade people from using it ...

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IndieDevLab announces speakers

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

Couldn't get tickets to WWDC or can't afford it? Be sure to check out IndieDevLab, which we wrote about here. Here's a quick recap: indiedevlab will pay host to many developers as a place to come during before and after WWDC to work/play and meet like minded people. Throughout the 4 days there ...

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iMore lists the best free iPad games

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 16th 2012 11:30AM)

My son is home sick today, but instead of staring at the TV he's poking at some strategy games on the iPad. As luck would have it, iMore published an extensive list of free iPad games, broken down by category. There are some easy hits, like Angry Birds Free, but also some little gems like ...

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OS X Lion updated: 10.7.4 fixes FileVault vulnerability

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 9th 2012 4:45PM)

Fire up Software Update if you're using Lion, and be prepared to have your passwords protected by encryption, as they should be. After a nasty error in 10.7.3, fixed in the just-out 10.7.4 update, I'm hoping Apple learned a lesson. The update also includes a few welcome fixes for other ...

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