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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1Password 3: the Review.

In the web 2.0 era the number of usernames and passwords has dramatically increased: this is not a secret. How can we remember tons of passwords today? By writing them down on paper? That’s not a good solution.

You need a password manager.

You need 1Password.

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Tweet from Safari with Thurly. Reviewed.

If you recently switched from Firefox to Safari, you’ve probably noticed the lack of browser addons. While there are thousands of addons / extensions / whatever for Mozilla Firefox, there’s no doubt that Safari is not a very customizable browser. But anyway, there are a few developers who have developed excellent plugins (that’s how they are called in Safari) you should definitely check out.

Today, I would like to talk about Thurly.

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How To: Load GreaseKit Scripts on Snow Leopard

If you spend a lot of time working with your browser, it’s very likely that you’ve heard of Userscripts. As the name suggests, user scripts are small code snippets meant to enhance your browsing experience. Scripts simply edit some aspects of your favourite web pages thanks to some css and / or javascript.

There are scripts that works with google.com, Facebook, Twitter…every famous website out there, mostly. These scripts are usually loaded with a browser extension: on Firefox we have Greasemonkey and on Safari its less known brother, GreaseKit.

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