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

Steve Jobs plays FDR in this old Mac sales video

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 3rd 2012 12:00PM)

It's not often you see Steve Jobs impersonating a former president, but leave it to the creatives who made Apple sales videos to make it happen. Yes, in this never-before-seen footage (well, never seen outside the sales meetings at Apple back in the 1980s), Steve Jobs plays a certain ...

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Rock Band for iOS to remain playable after all

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 3rd 2012 11:15AM)

We had the original story on this waiting in our queue for a couple of days while we hoped EA would answer the question, "Why is an app people paid for being 'shut off' remotely?" Unfortunately we never got an answer. To sum up: EA released Rock Band for iOS way back in 2009, but within the ...

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iPhone video lands actor on Star Trek

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 3rd 2012 10:00AM)

cinemafestival / Shutterstock.com The iPhone is sometimes compared to a Star Trek communicator, so it's pretty cool that an actor from Sherlock himself, Benedict Cumberbatch, used it to get a part on the upcoming J.J. Abrams Trek sequel. When Cumberbatch couldn't make it to the audition, ...

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Apple, Dropbox, our PC-free future and our sweet solution past

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 2nd 2012 1:15AM)

A few days ago in the Dropbox forums, a developer said Apple had rejected his app due to a little quirk, so to speak, in using Dropbox. Specifically, if a user doesn't have the Dropbox app installed, a link to a web page would be issued, causing the user to go to Dropbox's website or a mobile ...

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Apple wants courtroom cleared while Steve Jobs deposition is played

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 1st 2012 8:45PM)

Universal Music Group is embroiled in a few lawsuits involving money owed to producers and artists, and in the course of events depositions by Eddy Cue and Steve Jobs were recorded at some point. Now, as these cases near trial, Apple is seeking a modification to a protective order to keep those ...

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Didn't get in to WWDC? Try some other awesome developer conferences

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 26th 2012 8:30PM)

Nothing beats WWDC's access to Apple engineers, and the confluence of global (well, provided you were awake in time in certain parts of the globe) attendees. If you didn't get a ticket to WWDC, however, there are still plenty of other great developer conferences for Mac and iOS developers. Here ...

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Apple's additional security steps could be better

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 23rd 2012 2:45PM)

As we've been hearing, Apple is rolling out some "additional security" for App Store customers. When you go to purchase an app, as I just did (it was the free Pocket app, incidentally), you may be prompted to answer three security questions and provide a second email address in case your ...

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Clear app updated, new themes and helpful tweaks

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 23rd 2012 8:30AM)

Clear made a big splash when it was first introduced because the interface was a bold experiment in user interaction. Instead of icons and buttons for functions, most of Clear's interface relies on gestures, or sliding and pinching items to make things happen. It wasn't for everyone, although ...

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Apple has released Apple Configurator 1.0.1

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 18th 2012 2:10PM)

Configurator 1.0.1 is now available in the Mac App Store. Here's what's new other than stability and performance improvements: • Enterprise apps packaged as .ipa files are imported and installed correctly. • Redemption codes for apps that contain a comma in their title can now be ...

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Greenpeace's math is wrong, according to Apple

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 18th 2012 10:10AM)

Rich Miller at Data Center Knowledge has a good rundown of how Greenpeace's math is a bit wonky in a report called "How Clean is Your Cloud?" For one, Greenpeace estimates Apple will use 100 megawatts of power at the Maiden, NC plant, but Apple states it will be 20 megawatts at full ...

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