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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Tweet What You’re Listening To With PodTweet

While it’s true that I daily discover new stuff like Mac and iPhone apps with Twitter, I can’t say the same for new music. If I want to listen to new bands or interesting albums I still have to read dozens of music blogs and magazines, because people don’t seem to share their music discoveries on Twitter. And that’s pretty weird actually, ‘cause we share almost everything that happens to us on Twitter. God knows. Anyway, if you have an iPhone / iPod Touch and you use it to both tweet and listen to your music - have you ever thought of combining these two things into one?

Here comes PodTweet.

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Today 2.0 Is Out

“With Today you can keep track of what’s on your plate for any given day without keeping iCal open all the time. Today syncs with iCal and your life’s agenda so daily events & tasks are always available via one, convenient little interface.”

Seems delicious. I’ll give it a try.


Notify Winners Announced

Thanks everyone for the support and the comments! Also, I’d like to thank the Vibealicious team for giving us these 5 licenses to give away.

Now, here are the winners:

Ned Falconer

iMaddin

Kévin

Rich Cousins

Jimi

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

Cheers!


Sneak Peek of Synotes, Syncode’s New Application

Seems like the Syncode guys are working really hard these days. After the release of Syncopy, the application that allows you to share your Mac clipboard on multiple Macs and iPhone which I reviewed here, they’ve just announced their new application called Synotes.

From the official page:

“Synotes is a simple yet powerful note taking and management solution for iPhone and iPod touch and the web. Synotes uniquely provides users with simple yet stylish user interface created to be unique yet intelligent.

Synotes consists of an iPhone application and a web application, both in sync through smart cloud technologies we call ‘Smart Sync’. Both applications feature beautiful interfaces that are sophisticated yet subtle, but also contain powerful features to create a user friendly experience.”

And here are two screenshots of the upcoming iPhone app (currently awaiting approval by Apple) and the web app I’m testing:

Synotes Web App

Synotes Web App

Synotes iPhone

Synotes iPhone

From what we can see now, the interface is cool and the iPhone application seems promising. The web app is smooth and powered by great animations.

I’ll be sure to check it out when it’s released.


3 Billion Apps.

“Three billion applications downloaded in less than 18 months—this is like nothing we’ve ever seen before,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “The revolutionary App Store offers iPhone and iPod touch users an experience unlike anything else available on other mobile devices, and we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”

…And still so many things to improve and fix. I hope the Tablet will help.


Keep Your Mac Healthy, Clean and Fast with CleanMyMac

Many people buy a Mac computer and think they would never have to do some maintenance, like they used to on Windows. This is partially wrong. Sure, there are no viruses / trojans / malwares but you have to clean up some stuff and free up some space from your hard drive as time goes by. Caches, log and language files, the infamous universal binaries: this stuff is using a lot of your drive’s space.

Today I’ll talk about what’s in my opinion one of the best (or maybe, the best) maintenance app for Mac OS X, CleanMyMac.

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The Pricing Smoke Around The Tablet Fire

TechCrunch

[..]The article as it appears now has been rewritten from when it first appeared earlier. I know this because I read both versions, and a simple Google search turns up a number of sentences and phrases that are no longer in the story, but are being quoted by multiple other sites and blogs. It’s not uncommon for blogs to write something quickly if there is a breaking story, and then flesh it out and perhaps even alter it a bit later, but again, this is the WSJ, and not their blog — this presumably is an article that will run in the paper tomorrow morning. Still, they had one version, and then changed it.

So, Apple is paying journalists to talk about the Tablet.

Sounds like a plan to save the publishing industry.