Sonic Jump for iPhone and iPad is, in a nutshell, SEGA’s version of the popular platform jumper Doodle Jump that features SEGA’s iconic character Sonic the Hedgehog. There are two games modes, Story and Arcade, where you must jump and tilt your way up the levels collecting coins, defeating enemies, gaining abilities, and battleing Dr. [...]
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Apple has added a short promo video for the iPad mini Smart Cover to their YouTube account. It’s 36 seconds in length, features fun piano music and focuses on how it magnetically attached to the iPad and the wide selection of colors: pink, green, blue, light gray, dark gray and (PRODUCT) RED. The focus on [...]
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Apple has added the iPad mini promo video that was shown during today’s announcement to their official YouTube channel. In this video, Jony Ive describes the goals and design process behind the iPad mini and why 7.9″ is the perfect size (and he of course says “aluminum” at some point!), Michael Tchao talks about why [...]
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Just as promised during today’s iPad mini event, Apple has released the new version of iBooks with better iCloud integration, enhanced sharing options, continuous scrolling, and more. With iBooks 3.0, now you can see all your iBookstore purchases in iCloud in a new Collection called Purchased Books. Another great new feature of iBooks is the [...]
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iBooks Author, Apple book creation app for Mac, has gone 2.0 and is now available in the Mac App Store. It includes the ability to make portrait-only books, embed custom fonts, and more. As the resident math nerd, the most exciting new feature to me is support for creating mathematic expressions with LaTeX and MathML. [...]
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Atas by Collins is an iPhone and iPad app and evolving data visualization tool that represents worldwide information on a section of themed globes with over 200,000 places you can discover and explore. Atlas is not only a great learning tool for individuals, but can also be used in a classroom environment or for giving [...]
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Every week, the editors at iMore carefully select some of our favorite, most useful, most extraordinary apps, accessories, gadgets, and websites. This week’s selections include a zombie game, some awesome music, a simple, distraction free writing app, and an app for creating graphs and charts. Zombie Toss – Simon Sage I guess I just didn’t [...]
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Vintique is a photo editing app for the iPhone that includes 32 vintage filters with the ability to edit and tweak them to your liking. Vintique is much more than a filters apps, though, as it also includes powerful image editing tools including exposure, white balance, vibrance, gamma, and more. Vintique features 5 main tabs: [...]
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It’s time to announce this week’s photo contest — Instagram! Instagram is one of the most popular photo sharing networks so it’s time we have a contest focused around Instagram! There is no theme requirement for this week’s entry, all we ask is that you post your photo to instagram, tag it with #imorecontest, then [...]
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We are receiving reports from Verizon iPhone 5 users that their iPhones are randomly displaying the incorrect date and time causing iMessage to fail, and even worse, alarms not going off in time to wake up for work. There is a thread in the Apple Support Community with many users, including a few Sprint users, [...]
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Tweetbot for Mac is here! After a public alpha followed by a public beta, Tweetbot has officially been released in the Mac App Store. Everything you love about Tweetbot for iPhone and iPad including the familiar interface, gestures, and sounds, are now brought to the Mac and the experience is exactly what you’d expect — [...]
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Check the Weather is a great weather app for the iPhone that has an elegant, minimalist design yet offers advanced forecast details including current conditions, hazardous weather alerts, and hourly and extended forecasts. For users within the United States it also shows a live doppler weather radar map and Dark Sky powered short term precipitation [...]
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Curious George’s Dictionary is an educational iPad app for kids that teaches the meanings of nearly 600 words through illustrations, sentences, stories, and more. It features charming illustrations for each word as well as an example of a sentence that uses the word. In addition to swiping through letters and learning new words, Curious George’s [...]
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Every week, the editors at iMore carefully select some of our favorite, most useful, most extraordinary apps, accessories, gadgets, and websites. This week’s selections include video player for jailbroken iPads, a classic board game, a lawyer game, and an ADN client. XBMC for iPad – Chris One of the things that I really hate about [...]
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There’s no denying that Netbot by Tapbots is the most popular iOS client for App.net (ADN), but it was a little surprising and disappointing that the client launched without support for push notifications. Tapbots did release a statement saying that notifications will be coming as soon as ADN releases the appropriate protocols to do so, [...]
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We’re celebrating the new design and makeover given to the iMore forums by updating our avatars with some killer photos and giving away over $140 in prizes — and you only have 3 more days to enter! Although self-portraits are extremely popular for people to use as their avatar, this is not a requirement. Pick [...]
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We’re celebrating the new design and makeover given to the iMore forums by updating our avatars with some killer photos and giving away over $140 in prizes — and you only have 3 more days to enter! Although self-portraits are extremely popular for people to use as their avatar, this is not a requirement. Pick [...]
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If you thought the iPhone 5 set a new bar for thin and light, wait until you see the iPod touch 5. Thanks to the miniaturized Lightning connector and the single layer in-cell display, the iPod touch 5 really is entering the realm of ludicrously, turn-it-sideways-and-it-almost-disappears thin. I Unlike previous years, stainless steel on the [...]
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Calendars by Readdle is an alternative to the built-in Calendar apps on the iPhone and iPad provided by Apple. I features a gorgeous interface, intuitive controls, seamless syncing with Google and iOS calendars, and more. If you find yourself commonly frustrated with Apple’s Calendar apps, you’ll definitely want to consider Calendars by Readdle as a [...]
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There are always new movies, music, books, TV shows, and apps coming out and friends giving recommendations about the old and new. It can be hard to keep track of what blockbuster hits you wanted to see, which Indie band your friend was telling you about, and that classic book you’ve been meaning to pick [...]
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Apple has aired new iPod ad to coincide with the release of the new iPods called Bounce — and boy is this a fun ad! It starts out with a new blue iPod touch and a finger that hits play for the song Yeah Yeah by Billy Moon. The iPod then starts bouncing to the [...]
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Letters with Pooh is an educational app for the iPhone and iPad by Disney to help kids identify and write letters of the alphabet. Your kids will join Winnie Pooh on his quest for honey by tracing letters, collecting letter balloons, finding missing letters, and more. Letters with Pooh is very interactive and even lets [...]
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Tweetglass, the Twitter client formally known as Quip, is a an iPad Twitter app that focuses on automatically streamlining and condensing your timeline, especially when it comes to conversations. It was recently updated with streaming over wifi, list support, read-later support, performance improvements, and more. Tweetglass features a very nice dark-themed UI that has a [...]
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Not long after the iPhone 5 was released, reports of a purple flare produced by the camera started sprouting up all over the internet. Matthew Panzarino from The Next Web quickly responded to these outcries of “purplegate” by explaining that this flaw wasn’t unique to the iPhone 5, but is present on the iPhone 4S [...]
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SEGA has announced that they’re bringing their classic video game Crazy Taxi to the iPhone and iPad later this month. If you’re unfamiliar with the game, Crazy Taxi is racing game where you must barrel through traffic packed streets, hurdle off parking garages, and perform other crazy stunts score up the most fares. You wanna [...]
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Every week, the editors at iMore carefully select some of our favorite, most useful, most extraordinary apps, accessories, gadgets, and websites. This week’s selections include a collectable card game, a TV show, a new App.net client for the iPhone, a passbook compatible app, and an iPhone 5 case that we’re actually giving away to 12 [...]
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Gridditor is an iPhone and iPad app that lets layer multiple filters to your photos and displays them in a unique way. Gridditor will shows you four filters at a time, one in each direction (up, down, left, right), and the farther you move in any direction on the grid, the stronger the effect gets. [...]
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With your iPhone you have one of the best 4:3 compact cameras in the world, but what happens when the world you want to capture isn’t 4:3- What happens when you come across a gorgeous scene — the Golden Gate bridge at sunset, the Manhattan skyline at dawn, the crystal-clear island beach, the magnificent Old [...]
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For this week’s photo contest, we’re going to celebrate the new design and makeover given to the iMore forums by updating our avatars with some killer photos — and giving away over $140 in prices! Although self-portraits are extremely popular for people to use as their avatar, this is not a requirement. Pick a subject [...]
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The 2012 Presidential Election is just around the corner and what a better way to follow the campaigns than with your iPhone and iPad! Whether it’s seeing what the news is saying, checking facts, viewing maps with live polling data, or a neutral source with information about both candidates, iMore has got you covered! WP [...]
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Starbucks has finally updated their iPhone app to offer support for Passbook, the new Apple app introduced in iOS 6. Starbucks had originally claimed that this update was coming at the end of September so, although late, it’s great that it’s finally here. However, it’s disappointing that although this update does support iOS 6 and [...]
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The 2012 Presidential Debate is about to begin and you may be looking for ways to follow along with your iPhone or iPad. Whether you’re on the go, don’t have access to the television networks broadcasting the event, or simply enjoying using your iPhone and iPad, iMore is here to present you with options for [...]
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Tapbots, the creators of the extremely popular Twitter app Tweetbot, have released Netbot, an iPhone and iPad client for the Twitter-like social network App.net. If you’re a fan of Tweetbot, you’ll immediately feel at home with Netbot with its identical interface, familiar sounds, and simply outstanding design. There are three main tabs in Netbot: Timeline, [...]
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Felix is an iPhone client for the Twitter-like social network called App.net. There may not be very many iPhone apps available for the service, yet, but even with little competition, the folks at tigerbears have done a beautifully phenomenal job with Felix. Felix features five main tabs: My Stream, Mentions, new post, Global, and Dashboard. [...]
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One of the most requested features for Netflix for iPhone and iPad is the “Just for Kids” section that’s available on most other platforms — and it’s finally available on the iPad. Even better, you don’t have to do anything to get it. Netflix pushed a backend update and now you should see a “Just [...]
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Every week, the editors at iMore carefully select some of our favorite, most useful, most extraordinary apps, accessories, gadgets, and websites. This week’s selections include an iPhone 5 case, an RPG game, a movie, and a popular photography app. Gear4 Tread GT for iPhone 5 – Chris Oldroyd I am really not one for cases [...]
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Flurry for Twitter is a new iPhone twitter app in the App Store that is just absolutely stunning in design. It features gorgeous animations, intuitive gestures, great sounds, and more. Flurry for Twitter is by no means “fully featured”, and although I’m always one to argue that less is more, Ash Apps may have left [...]
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The iPhone app for Digg v1 has been updated to be a universal app for both iPhone and iPad. The iPad version offers the same version as the iPhone, just offers a more pleasant reading experience on the iPad’s larger screen. Speaking of larger screens, this update does not include support for the iPhone 5′s [...]
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Facebook Messenger for iPhone has gone 4.0 and includes some UI improvements as well as support for the iPhone 5′s larger display. The conversation view has a new design and now you can swipe left anywhere in the app to quickly see a list of who’s available to send message. At the top of this [...]
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After what feels like an eternity since Angry Birds maker Rovio teased that they were working on a game that was from the pigs point of view, Bad Piggies is finally here. I wouldn’t call it a “sequel” to Angry Birds, however, because it doesn’t feature the birds at all. Instead, it’s an entirely new [...]
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Only hours following Apple CEO Tim Cook’s open letter to customers regarding Maps on iOS 6, Apple has added a featured box in the App store for users to “find apps for your iPhone” that takes you to a section devoted to maps apps. This is a very impressive and humble move by Apple. Apple [...]
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Camera+, the very popular photography app by tap tap tap, has been updated to support iOS 6 and the iPhone 5′s larger display. You can now see more photos in your lightbox and have a larger editing preview area when working with your photos. In addition to the changes made to Camera+ for iPhone, tap [...]
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