MacStories Team

1558 posts on MacStories since July 2011

Articles by the MacStories team. Founded by Federico Viticci in April 2009, MacStories attracts millions of readers every month thanks to in-depth, personal, and informed coverage that offers a balanced mix of Apple news, app reviews, and opinion.

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Interview: John Brayton

Twitter: @johnbrayton. Owner of Golden Hill Software, maker of Unread, Feed Hawk, and other apps. 1. Earlier this year you purchased the iOS RSS reader app Unread from Supertop, which had bought it from Jared Sinclair. What would you tell fans of the app who may be concerned about the uneven pace of development during...


Home Screen: Scott Willsey

Twitter: @scottaw; Website: saw66.com; Co-host of the Don’t Nihongo It Alone podcast. As you can see from the screenshot of my iPhone 6s Plus Home screen, I’m one of those guys that insists on a certain visual aesthetic. One of the many things I’ve learned from my friend Ronnie Lutes is that order and beauty...




Interview: David Sparks

Twitter: @MacSparky. Author of 60 Mac Tips Volume 2,other ebooks, and MacSparky.com; co-host of Mac Power Users and Free Agents on Relay FM. 1. There aren’t many podcasts that get to episode 400 as Mac Power Users just did. To what do you attribute the show’s longevity? Whenever somebody asks me about starting a new...


Home Screen: Jacob Hobbie

Twitter: @LinkChef. Information Technology/Management Of Information Systems student at Newman University. Before we start, I have a confession: I only switched to iOS in February. Until then, I had been a hardcore Android evangelist. So much so that when Google unveiled the Pixel, I watched during a Student Government Senate session. Before long, I had...


A Farewell from Jake Underwood

In December 2015, I made a spur-of-the-moment decision to email Federico and ask for a job at MacStories. I’m not really sure what Ticci initially thought of the unknown 19-year-old from Indiana emailing him out of the blue, but he decided to take a chance and gave me a position, for which I’m eternally thankful....


Interview: Federico Viticci

Twitter: @viticci. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of MacStories;Co-Host of AppStories and Connected, Remaster, and Canvas on Relay FM. Last week, to make the 100th issue of MacStories Weekly, we asked readers to send in questions for Federico. Thank you to everyone who sent in a question; they were a lot of fun to read. We picked...


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