Federico Viticci

10804 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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The New Simplenote, Now Available

Great news, iPad and iPhone users: the all-new Simplenote is now available, together with a complete new webapp, full support for iOS 4 and tags. I’ve been beta testing the new version, and it’s awesome. Really, a great update now live in the App Store. For free.

The new version (labelled 3.0.3) introduces brand new features that make Simplenote a fresh new experience. A new icon (lovely), a new UI, tags for posts (a much requested feature), fullscreen mode and easy note sharing. It’s very easy, and a killer feature for users like me, who need to share notes and documents with a team.

Simplenote is available here for free. A premium subscription is available as in-app purchase at $11.99. Check out the first screenshots and changelog below, and stay tuned for our full review coming tomorrow.

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Win A Copy of Dunk for iPhone

Dunk is a great Dribbble client for iPhone I reviewed a few days ago here. From the review:

“For a first release, Dunk works very well and looks good. It could use some additional features, API love and portrait mode support, but I’m sure 1.1 (and the future 1.2, I guess) will solve all these issues. Cheers to Robocat for releasing the first great mobile Dribbble client.”

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Moleskine iPhone 4 Case

I can’t say I didn’t see this coming: a moleskine-like case for the iPhone 4? Could you even have doubts about it?

So here it is, a case that looks just like an old moleskine complete with its traditional elastic bland. It’s the classiest way to hide an iPhone. Or the worst way to access the volume buttons.

Your call.

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OS X Releases Of The Day: Alfred Powerpack, Swatch 2.0

Alfred, the new kid on the block of “applications to search on your Mac” Cody reviewed back in March, can now be extended with a £12 ($18) “Powerpack” that allows you to quickly navigate your Mac’s filesystem and perform actions with files and folders.

The first Powerpack also includes support for an iTunes Mini Player, but the developers are promising way more feature in the next iterations of the addon such as Clipboard integration, Applescript and Address Book integration. Alfred Powerpack is available at £12 here.

Swatch (missed our Fuel Collective week?) is a must-have tool for any designer, and the long-awaited 2.0 version was released earlier today. The new version sports a brand-new UI design (I love it) and comes with many new features such as the possibility to create and manage collections, support for ACO, ASE and CLR files, customizable cursors and possibility to switch from the standard Color Wheel to CMYK, RGB or HSB sliders.

Swatch 2.0 is available at $9.95 here.

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iMac Touch Finally Shows Up in Patent - And It Runs Both OS X and iOS

There’s this iMac Touch rumor that has been floating around on the internet for quite a while now: back in January Digitimes reported that Apple was working on a 22-inch touch-enabled Mac in addition to the iMac line, then 2 months ago LoopRumors claimed that Apple was developing a touchscreen iMac running iOS. I called that rumor “absurd”, and you know why? Because a desktop computer running only iOS doesn’t make sense.

But a desktop computer capable of transitioning from OS X to iOS depending on the device’s orientation? Now that’s interesting.

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