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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From the AppStore: Canabalt 1.2 and Broadersheet 1.4

Some cool updates landed on the AppStore tonight and they include some of my favorite apps:

Broadersheet

This 1.4 update dramatically improves the app’s performances and brings full offline reading for every article. Read my review here if you missed it.

Canabalt

Global leaderboards, new obstacles and new alternate music soundtrack for one of the best games I’ve ever installed on my iPhone. Is it enough?

Also, Read it Later 2.0 is out, but there are some problems with the updating process. Guess the App Store is a little bit slow in delivering this 2.0 release. You’ll know more about it as soon as I’ll be able to install the update.

Droplr Finally Goes Public. Reviewed.

Back in October I wrote a post about 9 Beta applications for Mac OS X you should check out and, guess what, Droplr was in. Droplr has been an invite-only app / service for a long time, one of those apps people never stopped searching for an invite as rumor was “Droplr is freakin’ awesome”. I was in the private / beta testing group of the application and it surely was a great, easy to use app, seamlessly integrated with Mac OS X. Yesterday Droplr 1.0 finally landed and here’s why you should go download it now.

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Cookmate Winners Announced

First, thanks everyone for the support and the comments! Then, I’d like to thank the Cookmate team for giving us these 5 promo codes for the giveaway.

Now, here are the winners:

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Ridha Hassoun

Adam

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

Anyway, stay tuned! Something huge is coming on December 15th.

Favorite Tweets of the Week Dec 6-Dec 12, 2009

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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Reeder Goes 1.2. Gets Twitter and Pinboard Support, Lots of Refinements

One month ago I wrote that Reeder was the new best RSS reader for iPhone. Then, some people started criticizing my review, telling me that Newsstand was way better than Reeder: it had more features, better stability and - this is weird - better support from the developer. Now, with the latest 1.2 update that went live last night I’d like to say it once again: Reeder is the best RSS app for iPhone.

Here’s why.

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Apple Files Countersuit Against Nokia

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“According to Apple, Nokia is infringing on 13 of its patents. Apple’s lawyer was very blunt in his statement concerning the case.

“Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours,” said Bruce Sewell, Apple’s General Counsel and senior vice president.”

Has Apple finally realized that the Ovi Store was a copy of the App Store?