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An Interview with Matthew Rex About Stacky App, Mac OS X Stacks and the “Year of the Mac”

As soon as I heard my friend Matthew Rex was working on a Mac application together with Tim Davies (I interviewed both of them on MacStories, here and here) I started wondering how awesome that app could have been. Then, I heard it was called Stacky and it was about a new way of managing Mac OS X stacks.  So I seriously got excited and immediately shot a mail to Matthew asking him to answer some questions about Stacky, Stacks and other random stuff of Mac development and his 2009 achievements.

He was kind enough to reply with great responses and some cool hints at what Stacky might look like. Also, remember to follow Stacky and its creators on Twitte: @stackyapp, @matthewrex and @tmdvs.

Enjoy!

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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.

Enjoy!

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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.