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.
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Mail.app, Replicated In Browser

In the past months we’ve seen many tech demos trying to experiment the concept of desktop-class applications running inside a browser, as a webapp. Safari 4 running inside Safari is a perfect example for this.

Today’s experiment is another webapp that tries to replicate the functions of a Mac desktop app, this time using UKI, a simple JavaScript UI toolkit for desktop-like webapps. The app is the popular Mail.app, and the web version is absolutely stunning: it looks the same, works the same and acts the same. You can drag messages around, expand and collapse folders, navigate with your arrow keys. Clearly it’s just an experiment that shows what’s actually possible with modern technologies, but the result is impressive nevertheless.

Check out the screenshots after the break, and the try the app here.

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iPhone OS 4.0 Is Already Jailbroken

It happened in less than 24 hours. A few minutes ago, MuscleNerd from the Dev Team posted this tweet that proves that the jailbreak for iPhone OS 4.0 is already possible.

There’s a video after the break, with Cydia and Veency running on a 4.0 device. Now we only have to wait and see what the jailbreak community will come up with, considering all the features that Apple apparently “borrowed” from Cydia, like multitasking and inline spell check. We’ll see.

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Webkit 2 Released, Puts Web Content In A Separate Process Like Chrome

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“WebKit2 is designed from the ground up to support a split process model, where the web content (JavaScript, HTML, layout, etc) lives in a separate process. This model is very similar to what Google Chrome offers, with the major difference being that we have built the process split model directly into the framework, allowing other clients of WebKit to use it.”

Way to go. Great news.

Spotted into iPhone OS 4.0: iChatAgent, Flash Camera References, MultiCore Support

We all knew this was gonna happen. People have started analyzing the latest beta of the iPhone OS, and as TUAW is reporting, there’s an iChatAgent showing up in activity monitor. At this point, I think it’s quite fair to say that the next iPhone will have video conferencing capabilities, or at least a dedicated iChat app.

Also, MacRumors has discovered flash camera and multicore references in OS 4.0. Now we only need a date for the next event, Apple.

iPhone OS 4.0, Coming to the iPad This Fall

You won’t be able to install the iPhone OS 4.0 on your iPad this summer. No, you’ll have to wait some more months, because Apple has announced it will be available this fall.

While I can understand that the iPad has just been released and they’re badly working on the iPhone version right now, before the keynote started I was hoping there would be a contemporary release for both the devices. Turns out we’ll have to wait instead, and keep our iPads without multitasking. (Well, until jailbreak will come).

All in all, like I said in the live chat today, I expect Apple to change the name of iPhone OS to, at least, iPad OS for the new device.

iPhone OS 4.0 First Look: Digital Zoom

Camera app now comes with a 5x digital zoom. The interface is very basic, and once you hold your finger on the screen a slider will appear. Once you’ve taken a picture you can of course copy, delete and share it, and - that’s new - rotate it. Nice.

Screenshot beyond the break.

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iPhone Multitasking: Explained

Multitasking is the most important feature of iPhone OS 4.0, the one that will allow you to run multiple applications at the same time. Basically what every iPhone user has been dreaming of for ages now. The implementation still needs some serious optimizations though.

Take a look at the screenshots after the break.

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