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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Insipiration: 60 Awesome Mac Apps Websites

Usually, a great Mac app has always an outstanding design. This happens beacuse the Mac platform is highly focused on providing a better user experience than other OSes and a good design is very important to acheive this. But, if you’re an app developer, you have to tell users that your app is great in the first place. And the first place is the application’s website.

Here I’ve collected 60 awesome Mac apps websites for your inspiration. If you know more, I’d love to hear about that in the comments.

Enjoy! ;)

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Resources Roundup: 25 Links to the Best AppleScripts Tutorials and Examples

If you’re an “advanced” Mac user, it’s very likely that you daily use AppleScrips to speed up your workflow. If you haven’t ever heard of AppleScripts, this post is for you.

AppleScript is the language of automation: you can let the script perform boring tasks in your place and forget about it. Put simply: you find yourself searching terms on Wikipedia everyday by manually opening each time en.wikipedia.org? There’s an AppleScript for that. You’d like to mark as read all your Mail.app messages? There’s an AppleScript for that.

The problem is, you need to actually know the AppleScript language to write a script.

Here, I’ve collected the best link that the web offers about this topic with examples and tutorials.

Enjoy! :)

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Roundup: 7 Delicious Mac Apps to Manage Your Bookmarks

I’m a heavy user of Delicious.com: I think it’s the best way to store online all my bookmarks. Also, the tagging system works good (except for some problems we should see fixed very soon: yes batch removing, I’m looking at you) and provides an excellent to sort out hundreds of saved web pages. Then, the interface is cute and so web 2.0.

But, as MacStories readers, you know that I love to find applications which allow me to use my favourite online services from the desktop.

Here, I’ve collected 7 Delicious desktop clients / utilities for Mac.

Enjoy! ;)

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Orbit Brings Exposè and Spaces to the iPhone. Review.

If there one thing I love about my Mac (beside the OS) that’s without doubt Exposè. It allows me to easily switch between all my open apps and, if combined with another great feature such as Spaces, it just becomes a killer app for your workflow.

Now, I always dreamt to have such a feature on my iPhone but - strangely - Apple never built it. And here comes Steve Troughton Smith with Orbit.

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30 Web Apps You Should Turn into Mac Apps with Fluid

We’re surrounded by web apps. That’s a given. Since the beginning of the web 2.0 era, we started collecting logins, passwords, subscriptions..I mean, who on earth hasn’t ever heard of  Gmail? My dad (yeah, I always choose him as my example) has a Gmail account.

But, there’s a problem: have you realized how much visual space do all these web apps steal from your browser window? I tell you: a lot. Mail + Facebook + Google Reader + Digg + Last.fm (pretty popular services almost everyone uses) are 5 open tabs in your browser. And if you have an horizontal tabs layout, you know that five tabs are too much.

But remember, we are Mac users, couldn’t there be a solution? Sure!

If you daily use a lot of web apps, Fluid.app will make your lives easier. With Fluid you can create SSB, Site Specific Browsers.

Put simply, you can turn a webapp into a desktop application that will run into your dock.

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