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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Flux 2: Web Design Rebooted. Reviewed.

If you have a Mac and you’re a web designer / blogger, it’s very likely that you’ve heard of RapidWeaver: it’s one of the most famous WYSIWYG editor around, it has a lot of features and a great support by RealMac Software. While many Mac users still use Apple’s iWeb and just feel comfortable with it, RapidWeaver’s slowly becoming popular, thanks to its simplicity and great UI.

Anyway, I would like to share my thoughts about Flux, a great alternative to RapidWeaver which I found in my “late night Mac apps discovering” sessions.

Here’s my review.

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25 Best Bookmarklets for Firefox, Safari and Opera

Bookmarklets are small javascript scripts that can be saved as in a normal bookmark, you just have to drag & drop them in the bookmarks toolbar, either if you use Safari, Firefox or Opera.

Here’s a list of top 25 bookmarklets I found really,really useful.

Just drag them to your toolbar to start using them!

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Daylite: the ultimate Mac app for your productivity

The first time I tried Daylite.app for Mac it seemed too complex to me: I thought that  it was surely very useful for teams of 20-30 people and more, but to me, a single blogger without any sort of team, it was just too stuff in one single window. Then, one of my Twitter followers said  “What? You don’t use Daylite? Go try it!” and I decided that it should get another chance.

It was worth of it.

Daylite is a business productivity manager designed to help you manage you business, either if you are a single or a team. It has got features like Projects, Calendars, Tasks, Notes and Contacts: basically, everything you would ever need to organize your business “the Mac way”.

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Stainless browser: want Google Chrome on Mac?

Google Chrome, what a great browser. Fast, simple, sleek interface: you could say it’s a Mac app. Unfortunately, Google Chrome is available only on Windows and we should be able to get the Mac version this fall.

But there’s still a chance to have Google Chrome run under Leopard, and it’s not Chromium. Have you ever heard of Stainless?

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