Federico Viticci

10791 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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Polyhedra Winners Announced

Thanks everyone who entered the Polyhedra giveaway. Also, we’d like to thank the Binary Hammer developers for the licenses they gave to MacStories.

Here are the winners:

telonaes

Njordy

Marisa

Richard Bukovansky

SebaSonido

Windsix

Umar

David Benkovic

telonaes

Rob Weber

You’ll receive the code in your inbox in a matter of a few hours.

Cheers!


Espionage Winners Announced

Thanks everyone who entered the Espionage giveaway. Also, we’d like to thank the Tao Effect developers for the licenses they gave to MacStories.

Here are the winners:

William Hand

aylys

raj

Abe Jellinek

Anthony Glyadchenko

CBeloch

maziman84

jeruksunkist

Shishir

Charles

You’ll receive the license in your inbox in a matter of a few days.

Cheers!


Pastebot Winners Announced

Thanks everyone who entered the Pastebot giveaway. Also, we’d like to thank the Tapbots developers for the codes they gave to MacStories.

Here are the winners:

carlomaru

dino

Christopher Tran

Drakebit

Ezequiel Lancelotti

Ian Harrier

Wire

Xendo

You’ll receive the promo code in your inbox in a few hours.

Cheers!


Newsprint Available: Review and Giveaway.

Newsprint, the application we previewed a while ago here, it’s finally out in the App Store.

To tell the truth, I don’t remember a beta testing process I enjoyed as much as I enjoyed Newsprint’s one. I went through a lot of builds, saw the application grow, the UI refine, features get better. It’s like having this little plant and watch it growing in a matter of a some weeks. But for as long as I enjoyed being part of the testing group, I have to keep my personal feelings out of this review, so  - don’t worry.

Newsprint has to face big names and competitors. Reeder, Byline, Newsrack, Netnewswire: it’s the best of the best in the RSS scene, and the developers knew it all along but decided to believe in Newsprint anyway. Is it really that good? Could Newsprint make you delete Reeder from your home screen?

Let’s find out. (and you know, we’ve got some promo codes to give away too.)

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Colorbind: Join the Dots.

After playing Polyhedra (our review) I decided that in the end, I should have given a try to other games in the App Store. I’ve always used my iPhone as a “productive” device but come on, a game’s never killed anyone - I could use a 10 mins relax sometimes.

Colorbind is one of my new favorite games for iPhone and iPod Touch. It’s simple (in the concept) but it’s damn difficult guys. It reminds me of one of those 80’s - 90’s videogames, where it was gameplay that really counted, games were hard. In Colorbind you have to join the dots by weaving color strips with your fingers. That’s it. It’s puzzle game, and as you go on with completed levels, you’ll see how genius this game is.

Colorbind iPhone

Colorbind iPhone

Colorbind iPhone

Colorbind iPhone

Some information about Colorbind:

– 84 Levels: Easy, medium, hard. And a tutorial.

– Achievements: 10 additional challenges.

– Statistics: Keep track of your game.

– Listen to your own music while playing.

Colorbind is available at $1.99 in the App Store. A lite version with only 10 levels is avalaible too here.


Where is Mozilla Ubiquity?

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“Though the main Ubiquity project is now on the back burner, Mozilla Firefox users might one day get a simplified version of a natural language command tool by way of something called Taskfox. At one point, Taskfox was intended for inclusion in Firefox 3.6, but that didn’t happen. Firefox 3.6 came out earlier this year, while Taskfox is still under development and currently there isn’t a specific timetable for when it will become part of the mainline Firefox browser release.”