Federico Viticci

906 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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N64 Emulator For Jailbroken iPhones On The Way?

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“ZodTDD, the developer behind GpSPhone (a Nintendo Gameboy Advance emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch), announced the development of an N64 emulator for the iPhone and iPod touch. Zodttd believes that the current generation iPhone and iPod touch have the graphic CPU horsepower necessary to run those games. “…I can’t promise it will run games top notch just yet, as things are too early to say. There’s hope though, with a 3D accelerated graphics plugin, as well as an ARM dynarec.”

Now, I’m quite skeptical about it. I was a beta tester of the PSP emulator years ago (when I was following the PSP homebrew scene, God blesses Pspupdates) and it never worked, let’s face it. Could an iPhone emulator do better?

I doubt it.

Cruz Browser Gets Twitter Integration

Cruz, the “social browser” developed by Todd Ditchendorf has been recently updated to version 0.3: the update added Snow Leopard compatibility and other bug fixes. See the complete changelog here.

Anyway, the developer sent a tweet this morning where he mentioned a Twitter plugin for Cruz, still in beta. After a quick test, I found it very interesting and useful.

See the screenshots after the jump.

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Squarespace iPhone App Is Out: Reviewed.

Blogging apps for iPhone suck.

Let’s face it: iBlogger is ugly and cluttered and the official WordPress app (which has recently been updated to 2.0) is slow, buggy and way too simple. How could this be even possible? I mean there are 100.000 apps out in the App Store and we don’t have a “Tweetie” for bloggers. You know, the champion who beats all and sits on the throne.

Well, the problem is that developing a blogging app is hard (yes, way too harder than developing a Twitter client) and needs a terrific support from the developer: we’re talking about an application which lets you blog from your iPhone and you know, people want stable and up-to-date apps. If WordPress didn’t make a decent app, how could a single developer make it?

Now, Squarespace (that awesome less known platform Web AppStorm reviewed here) has just released its official iPhone app and - guess what - it’s amazing.

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Hydrovibe Album Winners Announced

Here are the names of the winners of the Hydrvibe album giveaway.

Congratulations guys, you will receive an email soon with the details to download the album.

Sam Da Man

Jenna

steven webb

somebody

Petra Donka

Frisby

Eugenio Grigolon

adone

Alex G

Teri Mitchell

iTunes 9.0.2 Adds Extra Home Screens To App Management

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“You can now put more than 176 apps in the organizer, and those will move on to grayed-out homescreens. You can still access them on the iPhone by using Spotlight, but those grayed-out homescreens only serve as a buffer to hold your overflow apps while you’re organizing them. Doesn’t really help the actual experience of sorting apps, but it should give you some breathing space when dealing with lots and lots of apps.”

Now Apple, please let us move multiple apps on the Springboard.

How To: Convert PDFs to Jpeg and PNG With Applescript

Applescript is one of those Mac OS features a few people master and many ignore. Truth be told, Apple has never published an “official” get-started guide to Applescript, so I understand all those users who just don’t get the point with it.

Anyway, Applescript is a human-language based code which enables users to perform actions. In case you’d like to know more about, take a look at my 25 Links to the Best AppleScripts Tutorials and Examples.

Today, I’d like to talk about this two neat applescripts I found here which let you easily convert your PDF files to .jpeg or .PNG formats.

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An Interview with Tweetie Developer Loren Brichter

How many times before did I say I love Tweetie? Both in its Mac and iPhone versions, I think it’s the best Twitter client out there, even better than many “professional” online services. Read my article “10 Reasons Why You Should Buy Tweetie 2..and What To Expect From Tweetie 3” if you missed it.

Today I had the chance to chat with the man behind the revolution, Loren Brichter. He works at atebits and he’s the developer of Tweetie.

Enough said, time for the interview!

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