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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It’s Time to Close That Mail.app. Welcome Notify 2.

I never used a mail client other than Mail.app on Mac OS for my IMAP account. Thunderbird is slow and buggy and Postbox feels too much like a Windows app, though it could be nice if just the devs would refine the UI. On the other hand, Mail.app is powerful. From mailboxes to rules and plugins (just to name a few, Letterbox, Mail Act-on and MailTags) Mail gets its job done with a huge set of awesome features, speed and stability. But there’s another market on Mac OS X, that of mail notifiers: they usually sit up in the menubar and provide an easy and minimal to way to instantly check for new mails. Now, what if we merge these two kinds of applications, creating both a minimal, lightweight mail notifier and client?That’s exactly what Notify 2 is.

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An Interview with Matthew Rex About Stacky App, Mac OS X Stacks and the “Year of the Mac”

As soon as I heard my friend Matthew Rex was working on a Mac application together with Tim Davies (I interviewed both of them on MacStories, here and here) I started wondering how awesome that app could have been. Then, I heard it was called Stacky and it was about a new way of managing Mac OS X stacks.  So I seriously got excited and immediately shot a mail to Matthew asking him to answer some questions about Stacky, Stacks and other random stuff of Mac development and his 2009 achievements.

He was kind enough to reply with great responses and some cool hints at what Stacky might look like. Also, remember to follow Stacky and its creators on Twitte: @stackyapp, @matthewrex and @tmdvs.

Enjoy!

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Twittelator Goes 3.5

Interesting update for Twittelator Pro, which I reviewed a while ago. Here are some of the most important new features:

App has landscape support everywhere;

You can tweet your currently playing song;

Threaded DMs;

Dropdown to refresh tweets (like Tweetie 2);

More efficient image caching;

Find people by their full name;

Many other improvements and fixes.

Surely it’s one of the most complete Twitter clients out there, though the interface is not as elegant and sexy as Tweetie’s one.

Twittelator Pro is available at $4.99 in the App Store.


Espresso, the All-In-One Caffeinated Web Editor. Reviewed.

[This article was written by Raj Ramamurthy. You can check out his personal website here.]

For a long time, Panic’s Coda has been the best, in both functionality and fashion, application for all in one website editing on the Mac.

MacRabbit, a software development company well known for it’s ADA winning CSSEdit, released their competitor to Coda that is putting some heat on the number one: Espresso.

Appropriately named the “Coda killer”, Espresso packs a real punch.

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Interview with Michael Martin of ProBlogDesign. The Life of a Designer and Blogger Using Windows.

As a part of the MacStories Apps Tree event (where you’ll find a huge giveaway worth $10.000 of 450 Mac and iPhone apps licenses), I had the chance to interview Micheal Martin, the editor of ProBlogDesign. Michael is a designer and blogger but unlike many designers I’ve recently interviewed he’s using Windows. What came out was a uber-interesting interview, with awesome responses that will give you a good insight into the blogging / designing scene on Windows.

This is the 8th of many interviews and guest posts I’ll publish on MacStories during this week.

Enjoy!

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Preorder Thoughts Now, Get 3 Apps for Free

It was some weeks ago when I first gave you an exclusive sneak peek of Thoughts, an upcoming word processor / note taking app for Mac. Today the developers Green & Slimy, together with MacBuzzer, launched an interesting bundle: if you preorder Thoughts now, you can later get 3 Mac applications for free.

Thoughts Bundle

Thoughts Bundle

The apps are Yum, Family and ResizeMe. Pretty good, actually. Now, what you have to do is read my post and if you believe you’re gonna need Thoughts.app, head over the website to preorder the app.


Favorite Tweets of the Week Dec 13 - Dec 19

I usually tweet a lot of stuff: apps tutorials, news, videos, reviews, hacks and so much more. Everything that’s Apple-related and it’s interesting, it’s worth a tweet.

To keep up to date with all these links you can follow me on Twitter, but in case you missed here’s a small compilation of the best tweets of the past week.

You can find me on Twitter as @storiesofmac.

Enjoy!

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