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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Q&A

Question: When testing apps and actively working on any of your iOS devices (this applies to anybody on the MacStories team), how do you manage all of your settings and notifications? I find I can’t replace any of my current apps with alternatives unless I place them particularly in different areas on my Home screen...


Member Requests

Question: I would like to create a workflow to send a link to both my Pocket and my Instapaper accounts. Simple enough right ? But here’s the catch: Some of those links are from the weekly Pocket curation email and need to be “cleaned up” before getting sent to Instapaper. The iOS app Clean Links does...


Tips

[[federico]] This is an easy one, but it came in handy last week when I was putting together the results for my 29W USB-C adapter tests. I needed a way to manually set the brightness of my iPad Pro to a specific level. I could have used Workflow’s ‘Set Brightness’ action, which accepts a value...


Writing in Ulysses

[[federico]] As listeners of Connected may know by now, I’ve spent the past several months on a quest to identify my ideal writing tool. Looking back, it was the launch of iOS 9 that threw me for a loop. The text editor I had long used for all my writing on iOS, Editorial, wasn’t getting...


App Debuts

[[federico]] Letterboxd Letterboxd, the popular service to share and keep track of movies you’ve watched or want to watch, has received a native iPhone app. You can explore what’s popular among friends, search for films, reviews, and cast filmographies, follow friends and writers, and keep your movie watching diary up to date. Meme Producer Meme...


Ulysses 2.5

There’s no shortage of great writing apps on iOS – from minimalistic text editors to advanced tools with automation features, the iOS App Store is rich in terms of choice for writers who want to get their work done on an iPhone or iPad. The recently released Ulysses 2.5, however, stands out from everything else...


Telegram

[[federico]] When it comes to messaging, Apple’s iMessage gets many things right – for one, it’s built into iOS and has good Siri and watchOS integration – but its evolution has been slow compared to messaging services from other companies. Apps like Messenger, WhatsApp, LINE, and WeChat have shown how reaching a wider audience doesn’t...


Member Requests

Question: Hi, I’m a new member of the Club and I’d like to request something I’ve been trying to create a few days ago: a workflow in which I add an article from a webpage into Apple Notes, in which it is copied the article’s title, URL, author and publish date. (Sergio Lizarazo, @nacl79) [[federico]]...


App Debuts

[[federico]] Clone Clone is a new GitHub client for iOS built for power users who want to manage their repos (private or public) on an iPhone or iPad. Clone has a good-looking commit history view, text editor previews for HTML and Markdown, and syntax highlighting for over 30 languages. Designed for iOS 9 and the...