Featured

Welcome to iMore ... Peter Cohen!

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Apr 14, 2013 a 10:03 am

Peter Cohen has spent most of his life writing about technology, especially as it pertains to Apple and gaming. He ran MacGaming, which was acquired by MacCentral, which in turn was acquired by Macworld, where Peter worked for many years as a Senior Editor. Since then, Peter has written for Mac|Life, MacUser (UK), Tap! and a variety of other online and print publications. Most recently, Peter began the Angry Mac Bastards podcast, and co-founded The Loop with Jim Dalrymple, where he serves as the executive editor.

Over the course of his career, Peter has accumulated a tremendous amount of experience, insight, and understanding, as well as a unique voice, attitude, and editorial sensibility.

And starting April 22, he's bringing it all to iMore.

Ladybug for iPhone and iPad review: Learn about ladybugs in a fun and interactive way

By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Apr 13, 2013 a 9:48 pm

Scholastic First Discovery: Ladybug is an iPhone and iPad app that is all about ladybugs. It teaches about the basic anatomy, eating habits, and developmental stages of ladybugs and more.

$1.99 for iPhone - Download now
$1.99 for iPad - Download now

Apps of the week: Puk, Gratuitous Space Battles, Zaxxon Escape and more

By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Apr 13, 2013 a 3:42 pm

Every week, the editors and writers at iMore carefully select some of our favorite, most useful, most extraordinary apps, accessories, gadgets, and websites. This week's selection is all games! There's a simple flicking game, a superhero fighting game, a strategy game, an arcade game, and a couple casual games.

To see what we picked, follow along after the break!

Do you want Facebook Home on iOS? [Poll]

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Apr 12, 2013 a 4:41 pm

Facebook Home has just launched on Google Play, the Android app store, today. Kinda. Turns out Android may be openy, but it ain't easy. Right now the full Facebook Home experience is only available on the HTC First. An almost-full experience, minus the deeper system hooks HTC made for the First, can be downloaded and installed on other Android devices, but only if they're flagship Samsung or HTC phones. And only in certain countries. That means the shiny Nexus 4 I have sitting next to me right now isn't (yet) invited to this particular Facebook event, nor is any device in my home and native land of Canada.

Travel Channel Layover Guide for iPhone and iPad: find pubs, attractions, and five star dining all over the world

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Apr 12, 2013 a 3:05 pm

Whether you travel frequently and need to kill time between airports or you're taking a trip abroad, the Travel Channel's Layover Guide for iPhone and iPad aims to make traveling more enjoyable and less stressful. Layover Guide features most of the more prominent airports in the world and gives you things to do in the cities around them. We aren't just talking about the main attractions everyone knows about, but local pubs, five star restaurants, and things that aren't as well known.

If you're traveling soon and would like to fill your to-do list with spots to check out, Layover Guide can help.

T-Mobile iPhone users guide

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Apr 12, 2013 a 10:54 am

Picking up a new T-Mobile iPhone 5? Whether it's your first iPhone, or just your first iPhone in a while, whether you're trying to set up your device for the first time, or figure out Apple features like iCloud, Siri, iMessage, Notification Center, or FaceTime, or simply get a handle on the basics like mail, calendar, or photography, we're got you covered.

If you already know everything there is to know about the iPhone, save this link for family, friends, co-workers, classmates, or anyone else who might need some help. We'll do the heavy lifting so you don't have to. If you want to learn more, dive in now!

iPhone users guide

T-Mobile iPhone 5 buyers guide

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Apr 12, 2013 a 9:56 am

Today, T-Mobile becomes the fourth and final major US carrier to launch Apple's iPhone 5. If you're thinking of heading down to your local store to pick one up, but you're not sure which exact model is best for you, we're here to help. There are a lot of decisions involved when it comes to buying a new iPhone, or any phone for that matter. Is the iPhone really the best phone for you? Is the iPhone 5 really the best iPhone? Is T-Mobile really the best carrier? Even after you've decided it is and they are, there's still the question of which color and what capacity to get.

Enter iMore's comprehensive iPhone buyers guide. If you need help deciding what to buy, we've got your back. And if you've already decided, just bookmark, email, Facebook, or Tweet this so we can help your friends and family and you can get on with enjoying your new iPhone!

Read the complete iPhone buyers guide now

Forget iOS 7, it's Hollywood Super suits that need a texture intervention

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Apr 12, 2013 a 9:29 am

While many people are no doubt ecstatic that newly appointed head of all human interface at Apple, Jon Ive, is reportedly walking through iOS 7 with a sandblaster, stripping out overly heavy skins and skeuomorphic design elements, one look at the newly released Man of Steel publicity photo above makes me think it's really Hollywood that needs its texture fetish dialed way back.

Poems By Heart for iPhone and iPad review: Have fun memorizing classic poetry

By Leanna Lofte, Friday, Apr 12, 2013 a 1:42 am

Poems By Heart from Penguin Classics is an iPhone and iPad app that combines great poetry, memory skills, and gaming into one beautiful app. In this game, you must memorize classic poems in stages and ultimately learn them in their entirety. Poems By Heart includes classics by Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, and more.

Free - Download now

Saga 12 and the story of the four failures

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Apr 11, 2013 a 9:17 pm

Recently a story on Image Comics claimed Apple's App Store "banned" a comic book, Saga 12, from a comic book app, Comics by comiXology, for content reasons. An uproar followed that story so closely that it actually seemed to overtake it at times. The original story turned out to be incorrect. According to comiXology, they assumed Apple would have a problem with the content and so decided on their own not to release it. They were wrong. Apple was fine with it. They subsequently released it. Though the original story still hasn't been updated to reflect any of that, a new story has been posted on Image Comics addressing the matter. So what does this all tell us?