Federico Viticci

10787 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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First Look: Prizmo for iPhone, Beautiful Mobile OCR App

OCR on the Mac? You gotta be kidding me.

I still can hear those Windows fanboys yelling at me years ago. But when I showed them Prizmo for Mac, they actually shut up. Prizmo by Creaceed is an awesome (yes, awesome) application for Mac OS X that allows you to snap pictures of, say, documents with your digital camera, import them via USB and see the magic happen as the app recognizes text (10 languages are supported), makes a Spotlight-searchable index, adjusts the picture’s brightness and perspective, too. It is indeed magic.

Prizmo is coming to the iPhone, and if you think about the new iPhone camera…that’s a new app on my waiting list.

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How Safari on iPad Should Have Been [Concept]

I browse a lot of websites with my iPad. At the end of each day, I sit down, relax and open my favorite websites using Safari. Could Safari on the tablet be better though? Yes. If you look closer, Safari on iPad is pretty similar to the desktop version: you have buttons, a chrome, a standard way of interacting with webpages.

So the Arc90 guys thought about this and came up with a genius concept of how Safari on the iPad should have been like.

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Motorola Makes Fun of iPhone 4, Again - Droid Fans Laugh At Apple

It seems like the latest trend in the smartphone advertising scene is to make fun of Apple by designing banners containing supposedly funny and enjoyable quotes about reception, cases, bars and whatever it is that makes you think about the iPhone 4.

Samsung did it a few days ago. Motorola is doing it again. Droid-Life laughs at Apple, because Motorola decided to run this ad. Makes sense?

Check out the popular banner and alleged smart description of the product below. Oh, and here’s video of the Droid X, too.

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DIY iPhone Macro Lens

You have taken some beautiful photos with your iPhone 4 so far. You own dozens of apps that help you taking better pictures, with different styles and effects to make them even better.

Maybe it’s time to consider making your own iPhone Macro Lens. Follow all the steps on Instructables, and please report back if you manage to get some actual good photos out of this.

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Should You Consider an iMac or a Mac Pro?

Yesterday Apple launched new iMacs, a new Mac Pro, a new Cinema Display and…a Battery Charger. Yes, it was a great day. And yes, many “pro” users still don’t know whether they should out their works in the hands of a Mac Pro beast or just go with an iMac by choosing the highest configuration. I mean, those are powerful machines, right?

Let Marco Arment tell you what you should do.

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Pano, Now Fully iPhone 4 Compatible

Pano was one of the applications I used the most on my old iPhone 3GS: it’s an awesome photography application that lets you take a series of pictures to build a panoramic view. It’s simple and produces stunning results.

Too bad that as I got the iPhone 4 I tried to install Pano, take some a picture and…it crashed. I tried again, and it kept crashing. Something was wrong with the iPhone 4 camera, I figured. Now, I’ve just noticed  an update for Pano in iTunes, which fixes those camera incompatibilities and makes the app fully compatible with the new device.

Awesome news. Pano is available at $2.99 in the App Store.