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.
viticci@macstories.net

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Collecting Games I Want to Play in Airtable

[[federico]] We live in an amazing age of digital distribution with access to hundreds of interesting new songs, games, movies, TV shows, eBooks, apps, and articles released on a weekly basis. As I argued on Remaster, my videogame podcast on Relay FM, a few months ago, I wish I had the time to check out...

Letterboxd

[[federico]] Whether you consider yourself a movie expert or someone who wants to discover and watch more movies, there’s a good chance you’ll be intrigued by Letterboxd and its passionate community of movie aficionados. The service, which has been around for several years and also includes two types of premium subscription, lets you create lists...

Rethinking My Apple Watch for a Better Me

[[federico]] Okay, so this title may be a bit corny, but stay with me here. 2017 was a stressful year for me. It wasn’t a bad year – the entire MacStories business grew by 60% over 2016 – but I wasn’t happy with how I was approaching my job and splitting my time across multiple...

AppStories, Ep. 40 - 36 minutes

How Apps Fit Into Our TV and Movie Watching

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AppStories Episode 40 - How Apps Fit Into Our TV and Movie Watching

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Federico and John discuss their TV and movie watching habits, hardware, and how they use apps as part of the process.

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Currency Conversions with Historical Exchange Rates

[[federico]] As someone who owns a business legally based in Italy but that largely deals with revenue in US Dollars, converting between EUR and USD has effectively become second nature for me. Every day, I have to calculate business expenses by converting them from USD to EUR and vice versa, or perhaps I need to...

AppStories, Ep. 39 - 35 minutes

The Mac App Store’s Problems

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The Mac App Store has fallen behind the iOS App Store. Federico and John discuss the Store’s problems and consider how Apple might address them.

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Question: I want to get rid of Evernote and use Apple Notes instead. I miss how Evernote saves articles from the web though. Apple Notes only saves a link but sometimes I want to save the full article with images. (Laurent, @lorreruy) [[federico]] We can replicate something similar to Evernote’s article extraction tool with Workflow,...

AppStories, Ep. 38 - 33 minutes

An Interview with James Thomson, Creator of PCalc and DragThing

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AppStories Episode 38 - An Interview with James Thomson, Creator of PCalc and DragThing

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Federico and John interview James Thomson about the origins of PCalc and DragThing, life as an indie developer, selling apps on the App Store and Mac App Store, and more.

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Question: From an email message received in Spark (or Gmail), I’d like to send an attachment to DEVONthink, copy the link of the item added in DEVONthink, make a note in Bear, copy the link of this Bear note and finally create a project in Things with the DEVONthink and Bear links in its descriptions....