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Origin Stories: Saul Mora, developer

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (May 13th, 2013)

While the Origin Stories series has typically focused on products, in the coming weeks we're going to focus a bit more on the people and personalities behind the products. In this episode I spoke to Saul Mora of Magical Panda during the MacTech Conference in 2012 to learn about how he got started ...

MacTech BootCamp Seattle: Includes Kelly G and Microsoft

by Kelly Guimont (Feb 28th, 2013)

If you're an IT professional supporting Apple software and hardware, or you are an Apple Consultant, you might want to check out the MacTech series of BootCamp events. Actually, I'm going to upgrade that to you should check out the MacTech BootCamp events. They take place all over the country, ...

MacTech, Microsoft team up to offer Office for Mac support credential

by Michael Rose (Feb 21st, 2013)

Got Macs? Got Office? For support personnel who want to show the world that they know which end of a pivot table goes into a stylesheet and how to upgrade PowerPoint for full compatibility with Exchange Server 2013*, your opportunity has arrived. MacTech's upcoming seven-city BootCamp II ...

MacTech finds Parallels beating VMWare Fusion again in annual virtualization rundown

by Mike Schramm (Jan 30th, 2013)

MacTech has posted its annual rundown of benchmarks between two of the most popular virtualization solutions out there on the Mac: VMware Fusion 5 and Parallels Desktop 8. Both are of course used to run Windows-compatible software inside of an OS X environment, and especially on the high end IT ...

MacTech Insight coming to CES in January, tickets available now

by Mike Schramm (Dec 16th, 2012)

The good folks at MacTech have announced a special dedicated conference track at 2013's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, called MacTech Insight. The track, which takes place on Thursday, January 10, will feature a full keynote and a series of talks from experts on the Apple ...

TUAW Origin Stories: Retro Dreamer

by Mike Schramm (Nov 9th, 2012)

Today we continue our Origin Stories series by interviewing Gavin Bowman, one of the co-founders of Retro Dreamer, a great iOS indie developer that's released games like Velocispider, Duckers, and most recently, Happy Fall. In the interview, Bowman lets us in on the wild story behind Happy ...

Behind the scenes at MacTech with Boinx

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 2nd, 2012)

At any given conference you'll have speakers and presenters who get up and use some sort of slide presentation. There's also usually a video setup which is documenting the conference and possibly giving attendees alternate angles. At MacTech, sessions were recorded and mixed with graphics live ...

Origin Stories: MacTech Conference

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 26th, 2012)

About the only time you'll see Neil Ticktin sitting down during the MacTech Conference is to eat, very briefly. I managed to get him to sit down long enough to do a quick interview about how the conference began for this week's Origin Stories. ...

MacTech 2012: One to remember

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 22nd, 2012)

Last week Mike Schramm, Kelly Guimont and myself attended MacTech Conference in Los Angeles. We'll have a video interview with the organizer and editor-in-chief of MacTech magazine, Neil Ticktin, later this week, but here are some observations made during the event. Mike Schramm MacTech is ...

Meet us at MacTech

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Oct 11th, 2012)

Next week at MacTech Conference in Los Angeles, TUAW is going to be interviewing Apple developers as part of our Origin Stories series. MacTech Conference is a rare time that we can get close with so many key players in the Apple community, and we're going to use it to bring you some great ...

MacTech announces Walt Disney Animation Studios tour, filling up fast

by Mike Schramm (Sep 25th, 2012)

Registration is currently underway for the 2012 MacTech Conference here in Los Angeles (October 17-19), and MacTech publisher Neil Ticktin has sent along some new information about what's going on at the conference this year, and it sounds amazing. In addition to the previously announced ...

TUAW and MacTech interview: Fiberlink

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 7th, 2012)

Fiberlink makes a range of business management tools for devices (company iPhones and Macs and the like) and documents. In this video, Neil Ticktin (Editor-in-Chief, MacTech Magazine) interviews Jatin Malik of Fiberlink at WWDC 2012. Jatin was kind enough to share his thoughts on the ...

TUAW and MacTech Interview: blueHula Studios

by Michael Rose (Aug 8th, 2012)

The iOS development house blueHula Studios has a couple of beverage timer apps on the App Store, with more on the way. Neil Ticktin (Editor-in-Chief, MacTech Magazine) interviews Craig VanderZwaag of blueHula Studios at WWDC 2012. Craig was kind enough to tell us about their thoughts on the ...

MacTech conference returning to LA in October

by Mike Schramm (Aug 8th, 2012)

I've been to the MacTech Mac and IT consultants conference a few years in a row now, and I have to say: If you do any Apple consulting or development, it's a great show to see. The Sheraton Universal here in Los Angeles is a great setting, and MacTech publisher Neil Ticktin always puts an ...

TUAW and MacTech interview at WWDC 2012: Marketcircle

by Michael Rose (Aug 5th, 2012)

In this video, Neil Ticktin (Editor-in-Chief, MacTech Magazine) interviews AJ of Marketcircle Inc. (makers of the Daylite contact manager suite + Billings tools for Mac and iOS) at WWDC 2012. AJ was kind enough to tell us about his thoughts on the announcements on WWDC, and how it will affect ...