Interview with Michael Martin of ProBlogDesign. The Life of a Designer and Blogger Using Windows.

As a part of the MacStories Apps Tree event (where you’ll find a huge giveaway worth $10.000 of 450 Mac and iPhone apps licenses), I had the chance to interview Micheal Martin, the editor of ProBlogDesign. Michael is a designer and blogger but unlike many designers I’ve recently interviewed he’s using Windows. What came out was a uber-interesting interview, with awesome responses that will give you a good insight into the blogging / designing scene on Windows.

This is the 8th of many interviews and guest posts I’ll publish on MacStories during this week.

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Preorder Thoughts Now, Get 3 Apps for Free

It was some weeks ago when I first gave you an exclusive sneak peek of Thoughts, an upcoming word processor / note taking app for Mac. Today the developers Green & Slimy, together with MacBuzzer, launched an interesting bundle: if you preorder Thoughts now, you can later get 3 Mac applications for free.

Thoughts Bundle

Thoughts Bundle

The apps are Yum, Family and ResizeMe. Pretty good, actually. Now, what you have to do is read my post and if you believe you’re gonna need Thoughts.app, head over the website to preorder the app.

Favorite Tweets of the Week Dec 13 - Dec 19

I usually tweet a lot of stuff: apps tutorials, news, videos, reviews, hacks and so much more. Everything that’s Apple-related and it’s interesting, it’s worth a tweet.

To keep up to date with all these links you can follow me on Twitter, but in case you missed here’s a small compilation of the best tweets of the past week.

You can find me on Twitter as @storiesofmac.

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The MultiTasking War: ProSwitcher Goes Public Beta, Multifl0w Update Imminent

We all knew this was gonna happen. The day Ryan Petrich announced he was working on a new application to manage backgrounded apps on the iPhone, everyone thought of Multifl0w, and how ProSwitcher (this is the name of the new app by Petrich) could become the new, best multitasking application from Cydia. And here we are today, with ProSwitcher in public beta and a multifl0w update on its way. I’ve been trying ProSwitcher for a few hours now, and I’ve already ditched Multifl0w for it.

Find out why.

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Mozilla Sees Firefox Mobile “Killing” App Stores

From Electronista:

“Mozilla mobile VP Jay Sullivan in an interview Thursday made the aggressive claim that Firefox Mobile will put an end to app stores like the iPhone’s App Store or BlackBerry App World. As the smartphone web browser will share much of the desktop Firefox’s engine and render both complex HTML and JavaScript, the senior employee anticipates many developers opting to write web apps instead of producing native code”

Sure. I think Jay hasn’t realized developers don’t actually make money from the App Store. The problem is not Firefox mobile killings the App Store, the problem are developers ditching the App Store in favor of Mobile Safari.

That’s what we should talk about.

Interview with the GoSquared Team

As a part of the MacStories Apps Tree event (where you’ll find a huge giveaway worth $10.000 of 450 Mac and iPhone apps licenses), I had the chance to interview the team of GoSquared. GoSquared provides the amazing tool called LiveStats (which I use on daily base) that enables you to watch your website’s traffic flow in real time. I heard they were also working on new stuff, so I decided to send them some questions and they’ve been so kind to reply with long and interesting responses, for one of the best interviews I’ve had in a long time.

This is the 5th of many interviews and guest posts I’ll publish on MacStories during this week.

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