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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Making Of: iOS 10 Concept

[[federico]] I’ll let you in on a little secret: the first thing I do every year after I publish my iOS reviews is making a list of what I’d like to see in the next version of iOS. Last year was no different. Soon after I published my iOS 9 review (following three months of...


App Debuts

[[federico]] Dashbird Dashbird is a new iPhone app to comprehensively track stats for any Twitter account. In addition to tracking data for your account, in fact, you can check on interesting stats for friends’ accounts, competitors, brands, and more. Stats include busiest days by posting activity, popular content, mentions, and more. Worth a look. Other...


iOS Apps with Great Dark Themes, Vol. 2

[[federico]] OmniFocus The Omni Group’s powerful task manager has a striking dark palette that can be enabled in the Settings. Once activated, the dark theme will create additional contrast between the app’s pink “checkcircles”, yellow and red labels, and blue interface elements – not to mention perspectives on the Home screen. Beautiful. Reddit The official...


Member Requests

Question: I have several workflows that create a reminder, and I’m having trouble setting the reminder to go off at the right time. I know how to set a reminder to fire at a date/time relative to the current time (e.g. add 1 day & 2 hours), and I know how to set it to...


Q&A

Question: I take a picture with my camera, use the Lightning/SD card dongle to transfer it to my iPad, where I edit it. Now, I am in a location that has no WiFi or cell service and I want to transfer the edited file back to the SD card. There doesn’t seen to be a...


iOS Apps with Great Dark Themes, Vol. 1

[[federico]] In this week’s collection, I’ll highlight some of the best apps that offer a dark theme on iOS. If you have suggestions for other apps that should be included in this list, let us know. Overcast Marco Arment’s excellent podcast client Overcast has a dark theme that switches the app’s popular white-and-orange mix to...


App Debuts

[[federico]] Twitterrific Twitterrific has been updated with a new DM interface and more keyboard shortcuts on the iPad. The new DM view has threaded conversations (finally) and image thumbnails; in addition to shortcuts, the video player is now native on iOS (so it supports Picture in Picture) and you can paste images when composing a...


Updates to Ulysses’ URL Scheme

Question: I was wondering how I could leverage Workflow to download files from Safari to my cloud storage provider, Box? (Anonymous) [[federico]] Unfortunately, Workflow doesn’t have support for native Box actions yet. I’ve also wanted something like this for a while – hopefully it’ll be possible in the future. I’ll keep you posted. Question: I’ve...


App Debuts

[[federico]] Billy Billy is a new app to keep track of your recurring subscriptions. You can choose from a list of popular web services such as Dropbox or Apple Music, or you can create your own. Then, Billy will show you how much you’re spending each month and remind you to pay a bill when...