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.

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Origin Stories: EpicSesh aims to improve sports tracking with Xensr

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 2nd 2013 2:30PM)

While the iPhone has GPS, and it's good enough for most people, performance-oriented athletes may find the precision lacking. Enter EpicSesh, makers of the Xensr line of "sports motion-sensing devices." While it looks like the sensors are still undergoing testing, the promise is that athletes will ...

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Origin Stories: Hopper

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 25th 2013 6:00AM)

Hopper is a Mac app for deconstructing binaries for analysis and debugging. If you're not a developer, it's probably not for you, but it's a cool tool nonetheless, built from scratch by a developer who built it himself. Once again a developer needed something, didn't like what was out there and ...

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Productivity Tip: Take a break

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 23rd 2013 2:10PM)

In the past couple of installments of TUAW's productivity tips, I've discussed a number of ways to keep you focused on your tasks. Managing those tasks will be the next big-picture topic, but this week I wanted to keep it short and simple, just like your breaks should be. Yes, you should take ...

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Friday Favorite: Sock Puppets

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 19th 2013 2:30PM)

Sock Puppets allows just about anyone to quickly and easily create short animated movies using not only sock puppet characters, but (via in-app purchases) aliens, politicians and Halloween characters. The adorable app is from a software company Smith Micro -- not exactly known for its consumer ...

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Origin Stories: TabTyping

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 19th 2013 10:00AM)

I grew up with rudimentary typing tools on older computers, but TabTyping aims to improve your typing on the iPhone's screen. The developer had to get creative when creating the app, so hit up the video for the story behind TabTyping's creation. TabTyping is free and offers in-app purchases ...

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Skitch update (iOS and Mac) includes PDF annotation, stamps

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 18th 2013 3:00PM)

If you are already a Skitch user and happen to have an Evernote Premium account, a new update now allows you to annotate PDFs using the app. Once you open a PDF in Skitch you'll get a 30-day trial of the premium PDF annotation feature. All users see a new way to add graphics to documents in ...

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iBank for iPad updated with more than 50 enhancements

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 17th 2013 10:00PM)

I've been slowly learning the Mac version of iBank and had all but stopped using the iPad version due to some quirks. A lot of those quirks have been ironed out in the latest version of iBank for iPad, released today. There are also new tools for setting and working with reminders, plus ...

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Productivity Tip: Focus time

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 16th 2013 3:00PM)

In order to stay productive, you must accomplish tasks. Unfortunately, as communications have sped up and become omnipresent, our focus has been sliced and diced to the paper-thin setting. How many times a day does a calendar invite, Facebook update, email or Tweet send you off your task and ...

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Mailplane 3 now available

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 15th 2013 1:00PM)

Mailplane 3 just came out of beta, and it's great. I've been using the beta for a while, and saw stability and speed improve with each iteration. While Gmail works great in a browser, there's something about having a dedicated application, as opposed to a Chrome SSB or Fluid instance. ...

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Origin Stories: Setlists

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Apr 12th 2013 11:00AM)

Do you perform on a stage with a setlist? Most bands do, and even some comedians. Enter Setlists, created by a group of musicians as a virtual piece of paper for their setlist to display on the iPad. Setlists offers all the flexibility of a digital display and text in a searchable system with ...

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