Federico Viticci

10804 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.

Connected, Episode 252: Full Oracle Mode

On this week’s episode of Connected:

Federico has concerns about dummy units of the next iPhone. Stephen is troubled by the icon used for Software Update in macOS. Both of them receive a visit from a mystic being named Myke. Oh, and it’s World Emoji Day!

You can listen below (and find the show notes here).

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Connected, Episode 251: The Worrier Warrior

On last week’s episode of Connected:

Myke has a story about the beach, Federico has a plan for NFC stickers, and Stephen has some thoughts on this week’s MacBook news.

You can listen below (and find the show notes here).

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Connected, Episode 251

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Adapt, Episode 5: Desktop-Class Safari and the Magic of OCR

On last week’s episode of our iPad-focused show Adapt:

Safari is growing up this fall in iPadOS 13 to a true desktop-class browser, and Federico and Ryan detail everything that’s new; also, this week’s challenge involves using apps to perform OCR on a 400+ page PDF.

You can listen below (and find the show notes here), and don’t forget to send us questions using #AskAdapt and by tagging our Twitter account.

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You Downloaded What?

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AppStories Episode 119 - You Downloaded What?

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This week, Federico and John look at the strange assortment of apps they’ve downloaded recently.

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Connected, Episode 250: Tonight Will Be in the Future

On this week’s episode of Connected:

Federico reminds everyone that it’s okay to not have strong feelings about Jony Ive leaving Apple, while Stephen feels tempted by iOS 13. Meanwhile, Eddy Cue talks about rumors of Tim Cook meddling with Apple TV+ scripts and Project Catalyst continues to make news.

You can listen below (and find the show notes here).

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Reminders in iOS 13

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AppStories Episode 118 - Reminders in iOS 13

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This week, Federico and John continue their series of episodes on the new and updated apps coming from Apple in the fall with Reminders.

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Adapt, Episode 4: Making an eBook and Multitasking’s Evolution

Federico gets creative making an eBook with Apple’s Pages app, then the guys go deep into the strengths and challenges of the new multitasking system in iPadOS 13.

In this week’s episode of Adapt, I had a lot of fun playing around with Pages for Ryan’s challenge; we also dig deeper into the multitasking changes of iPadOS. You can listen below (and find the show notes here), and don’t forget to send us questions using #AskAdapt and by tagging our Twitter account.

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