Federico Viticci

10788 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.

Chirpy, Twitter DMs As Text Messages

If you spend many hours a day on Twitter, I guess you’re quite into having conversations with your followers, but sometimes you’d like to keep these conversations private. And you have an iPhone too, perhaps running the recently released Twitter’s official app so that you can send direct messages with it. But, Twitter for iPhone doesn’t support push notifications for DMs. Hell, it doesn’t support push notifications for anything.

If you’d like to receive instant notifications for your Twitter DMs, look no further than Chirpy.

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Write Your Own Apple Lawsuit

We’ve slowly gotten used to see a company suing Apple every day, and - honestly - that’s quite ridiculous. If you’ve ever wanted to jump on the lawsuit boat too, I’m excited to tell you that now there’s a template for that.

The guys over at Mac|Life have put together a PDF file with all the info you need to write your own hopeless lawsuit.

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Apple Launches “Why You’ll Love a Mac” Campaign

Remember the great Get a Mac ads? It’s official now that we won’t see them anymore, at least not in the near future.

Apple has just updated its website redirecting all the previous Get a Mac links to a new page called “Why You’ll Love a Mac”, which highlights 5 of the major features of Mac OS X: Better Hardware, Better Software, Better OS, Better Support,It’s Compatible.

Very nice and informative. Check out the page over at Apple.com and take a look at a few screenshots after the break.

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Phoenix Wright for iPhone Available Next Week

TouchArcade is reporting that Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney will be available next week for $4.99 in the App Store. Phoenix Wright is a very popular console game from Capcom which went very well on the Nintendo DS before and, in fact, the iPhone version doesn’t seem to be anything more than a simple porting of that one.

For those of you not familiar with the concept:

“Phoenix Wright games are a strange mixture of a visual adventure game that play a lot like mixture of a hidden object game and a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book. The game is segmented in to two portions, the investigation and the trial. While investigating, you visit various location and gather evidence by looking around and interviewing anyone who is around. When you’re finished with that, you go to court where you cross examine witnesses, present evidence, and object to the arguments presented by the prosecuting lawyer.”

Check out the first screenshots after the break.

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Apple Starts Rolling Out International iBookstores

Italian blog iPadevice has found out that Apple has started rolling out the international iBookstores, which are slowly filling up with iBooks and books from Project Gutenberg. [Google Translation]

As you can see from the screenshots after the break there aren’t many books already, but the store is really filling up as we speak. Categories, banners and charts are live, but we still haven’t seen anything about prices. We’ll keep you posted about it.

Everything’s almost ready for the official launch.

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A Sneak Peek at Twitterrific 3.0 for iPhone from the Iconfactory

We all love Twitterrific for iPad, right? It’s a beautiful app, with all the features that you need, yet it’s simple and user friendly. It turns out that after the launch of the iPad and the App Store grand opening, the Iconfactory (developers of the Twitterrific apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac) realized that Twitterrific for iPad was the iteration people liked most: the Mac version was stuck at somewhere between 2008 and 2009, and the iPhone version had become something they weren’t proud of. They wanted to rewrite the apps starting from the fresh and powerful new codebase of Twitterrific for iPad. And so they started working on Twitterrific 3.0 for iPhone and 4.0 for Mac.

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iFixit’s Latest Macbook Teardown

That didn’t take long. The guys over at iFixit have already torn apart the new Macbook, with some interesting results revealing a slightly larger battery:

“The battery looks very similar to the previous one. So similar, in fact, that it’s identical in size and shape, and has the same model number (A1331).

The battery in the A1342 Mid 2010 is 65 watt-hours and weighs 355 grams.

In contrast, the earlier A1342 has a battery of 60 watt-hours and weighs 347.5 grams.”


Check out the photos of the teardown after the break.

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