Federico Viticci

Editor-in-chief

Mastodon: @viticci@macstories.netEmail: viticci@macstories.net

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, and Dialog, a show where creativity meets technology.

He can also be found on his two other podcasts on Relay FM – Connected and Remaster.

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427 — July 20, 2024

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I have no idea how actually useful this accessory that promises to turn the Apple Watch into an iPod will be (my understanding is that you’ll either have to disable passcode authentication on the Watch or enter your passcode every few minutes?), but, let’s be honest, did anyone think I could resist the temptation of preordering a tinyPod? (Link)

John

Everyone enjoys a good mystery, and this is a great one from Daniel Miller at the L.A. Times about an oddly-designed pizza box. (Link)

427 — July 20, 2024

App Debuts

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APP DEBUTS

Noteworthy new app releases and updates, handpicked by the MacStories team.

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Ivory

Following the major update to version 2.0 last week, Tapbots has already released Ivory 2.1 with some welcome improvements. For starters, the app now integrates with Apple’s Translate tool – a wise decision, especially considering how Translate will offer third-party apps an API in iOS 18 for even deeper integration. Furthermore, Ivory is now one of the first third-party clients to support Mastodon’s upcoming author byline feature for links, which is still in beta and requires Mastodon 4.3. MacStories is one of the publications with initial support for bylines on the fediverse, so I’m very happy to see that Ivory already supports this addition to rich links displayed in the timeline.

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425 — July 6, 2024

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The first Thunderbolt 5-certified cables are here…but there are no Thunderbolt 5 devices to connect them to yet. (Link)

A thought-provoking piece by Louie Mantia on software features Apple should consider to deal with someone passing away. (Link)

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424 — June 29, 2024

App Debuts

APP DEBUTS

Noteworthy new app releases and updates, handpicked by the MacStories team.

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Denim

Denim has long been my favorite utility to create great-looking custom covers for playlists on Apple Music, and the much-anticipated 3.0 update is a fantastic next step for the app. Denim has been completely redesigned, and it now features an all-new playlist cover editor UI with many more options than before. For instance, the app can now recognize artists featured in a playlist and suggest photos of those artists as covers; it also comes with new types of emoji covers and new styles for other categories. There’s the ability to customize text, colors, and other elements of a cover. Plus, all of these covers now sync with iCloud across devices, and – my favorite touch in this update – the first time you create a cover and leave Denim to apply it, the app uses the relatively unknown Picture in Picture API to show you instructions while you’re trying to modify a playlist cover in Apple Music. If you have several playlists in the Music app and want to make sure they look their best, I can’t recommend Denim enough.

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423 — June 22, 2024

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Writing at Six Colors, Joe Rosensteel interviewed Adam Lisagor, Andy Roth, and Dan Sturm from Sandwich about their latest visionOS app, Theater, and how they made the spatial livestream of The Talk Show at WWDC happen. (Link)

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AI and what it means for culture is such a new frontier that it is difficult to even articulate the issues it presents. Discovered via Pixel Envy, this article by Eryk Salvaggio does a better job than any I’ve read of defining issues, which is a good first step in discussing them. (Link)