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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Generate and Manage Strong Passwords with uP@ssw0rdz! for iPhone

If you’re quite into the Mac and iPhone software scene you should probably know that there’s one application that everybody loves when it comes to passwords management: that’s 1Password by Agileweb Solutions. I reviewed 1Password 3 a while ago, and things just haven’t changed as I’m still using 1Password and its database it’s growing bigger and bigger everyday. I guess I just couldn’t work without at this point. 1Password is great because it offers a lot of features packed in a well designed and gorgeous interface, yet doesn’t overwhelm the user with weird commands and submenus. You can automatically save logins, save credit card details in the wallet, store apps licenses and generate passwords.

Now, I’ve stumbled upon this application called uP@ssw0rdz! which, icon and name aside, could really come in handy to those people who don’t need the multiple features of 1Password and just need a simple, dictionary based password generator and manager.

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Win a Copy of Snowtape

The Vemedio guys gave me 2 Snowtape licenses to give away to MacStories readers. In case you missed it, be sure to read our Snowtape’s review here.

Entering the contest is simple. All you have to do is:

  • Follow me on Twitter (@storiesofmac) and tweet this message: “Win a Copy of Snowtape for Mac on MacStories http://ow.ly/YJe8 @storiesofmac”

and

  • Go download the app, then leave a comment telling me why you’d like to win a license. Be sure to include a link to your tweet.

I’ll pick up the winners on Sunday, January 24th.

Good luck!

It Could Be a Mac App: MobileMe, the Real Cloud from Apple.

The Web 2.0 era saw the consolidation of 3 different kinds of website: social websites (which include communication tools like Twitter and bigger networks like Facebook), collaborational websites (Google Docs, Wave) and online backup solutions. Not exactly a “websites”, when people started browsing more and basically doing more stuff with their computers, the need of a virtual, remote yet secure backup solution seemed pretty much obvious. I mentioned many times what I think it’s the best app to effortlessly store up to 2GB of data for free, Dropbox, and I’ve also written a post about 40 creative uses of Dropbox. That post basically talked about many different ways of using Dropbox not only to store simple backups of files and folders, but how you can use it to synchronize applications libraries and, for example, browser bookmarks across multiple Macs. But wouldn’t it be great to have a built-in, Apple -like solution to do that instead of setting up a lot of little tricks and hacks?

As a second post for the “It could be a Mac app” series today I’ll talk about MobileMe: I’ll take a look at the pros and cons of Apple’s web interface for its sync & backup tool, the actual usability of the webapp and why you should even consider of making a Fluid app out of it.

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Synotes and Syncopy Winners Announced

Thanks everyone for the support and the comments! Also, I’d like to thank the Syncode team for giving us these 10 promo codes to give away.

Now, here are the winners:

Syncopy:

Christohper Misiano

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Synotes:

Brooke

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Bastian Kirschner

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

Cheers!

First Leaked Images of the Apple Tablet

MacObserver

“We have received more photographs from a source claiming that they are of the glass that will be used for Apple’s as-yet unannounced tablet. This time, however, we get a little scale in the image, and that scale shows the glass to be large enough for a 10” device.”

Fake? Yes. I don’t believe there will be a home button at all.

I wonder who’s this MacObserver trustable source.

iPhone OS 4.0 Features Leaked

everythingiCafe

Seems like the features of the upcoming iPhone OS 4.0 were revealed to BGR.

“There will be multi-touch gestures OS-wide. (Would make sense for that as the rumored OS for the iTablet is close if not the same as the iPhone)

“A few new ways” to run applications in the background — multitasking.

Many graphical and UI changes to make navigating through the OS easier and more efficient. We haven’t had this broken down, but we can only hope for improved notifications, a refreshed homescreen, etc.

The update will supposedly be available for only the iPhone 3G and 3GS, but will “put them ahead in the smartphone market because it will make them more like full-fledged computers” more than any other phone to date. Everyone is “really excited.”

The last piece of information is the most vague, but apparently there will be some brand new syncing ability for the contacts and calendar applications.”

True or not, we should expect some big changes from the new firmware.