Federico Viticci

10880 posts on MacStories since April 2009

Federico is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of MacStories, where he writes about Apple with a focus on apps, developers, iPad, and iOS productivity. He founded MacStories in April 2009 and has been writing about Apple since. Federico is also the co-host of AppStories, a weekly podcast exploring the world of apps, Unwind, a fun exploration of media and more, and NPC: Next Portable Console, a show about portable gaming and the handheld revolution.

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Here’s What Twitter In Real-Time Looks Like [Video]

Last night Twitter opened up the API for real-time user streams. The first apps to come with this much-requested feature are Tweetdeck and Echofon for Mac, but only if you’re a registered user (Echofon) or have been invited (Tweetdeck).

I have my doubts about this new feature, but I don’t want to judge yet. In the meantime, take a look at the videos showing real-time Twitter on these two apps, courtesy of The Next Web.

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First Look: Prizmo for iPhone, Beautiful Mobile OCR App

OCR on the Mac? You gotta be kidding me.

I still can hear those Windows fanboys yelling at me years ago. But when I showed them Prizmo for Mac, they actually shut up. Prizmo by Creaceed is an awesome (yes, awesome) application for Mac OS X that allows you to snap pictures of, say, documents with your digital camera, import them via USB and see the magic happen as the app recognizes text (10 languages are supported), makes a Spotlight-searchable index, adjusts the picture’s brightness and perspective, too. It is indeed magic.

Prizmo is coming to the iPhone, and if you think about the new iPhone camera…that’s a new app on my waiting list.

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