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 apps a beautiful iPad weather app, apps for sports and politics, a fun camera app, an app filled with inspirations, a puzzle game, a music app, and an alternative to Instagram. To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break! It’s been a crazy week, so I’m going simple with my pick – simple and beautiful. Leanna reviewed a weather app called Living Earth recently and after reading her post, my need to see just how great this app really was took over immediately and I downloaded it. You might find a weather app that does more or has more geeky weather options for meteorology nerds, but with the possible exception of Weather HD, I’ve yet to see a Read More

By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Oct 8, 2011 | Every week a few of us from team TiPb will bring you our current favorite, most fun and useful App Store apps, WebApps, jailbreak apps, even the occasional accessory, web site, or desktop app if the mood strikes us. As long as they’re iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch related, they’re fair game. To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break! I thought about what I wanted to talk about for this week’s pick, and I decided to take a step back and look more at the bigger picture than a single application. I thought about how profoundly my day-to-day life has changed and about influences in the past few years at Nickelfish, and no week seemed more appropriate than this one to recognize the massive change the iPhone brought to users. I’ve been a fan Read More

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Aug 30, 2011 | TiPb’s developer spotlights are like DVD/iTunes Extras for the App Store — a weekly look behind the scenes at the programers and designers that bring you the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games you love. This week Rene talks with Mike Smithwick of Distant Suns. What’s your name? Mike Smithwick What’s your company’s name? First Light Design, LLC, I was hoping to name it something like “Apple,” I know, dumb name, but someone already had it. Where are you located? San Jose, CA. Within walking distance of Cisco (really!), Intel, eBay, and only a few miles always from the Mother Ship. What’s your website address? www.distantsuns.com What’s your Twitter name? @distantsuns for any hot breaking news about, uh, Distant Suns (duh!). And @lazyastronomer for general space and astronomy geek stuff. Why @lazyastronomer? When people ask me why I wanted to write Read More

As Hurricane Irene makes its way up the East Coast, you may be tempted to hunker by the TV or computer with your three-day supply of batteries, water and MREs to track the storm’s progress. But you can feel free to go out and test the tensile strength of your umbrella thanks to a number of phone and iPad apps that will keep you current on Irene’s position. At the top of the list has to be Hurricane Express, a recently released 99-cent iPhone app specializing in – what else? – hurricane tracking. With information from the National Hurricane Center, the app provides lots of raw data for wonky storm chasers, but also moving radar maps, maps showing the forecasted storm track, wind maps and others as well. You can also check the curated Twitter feed from weather organizations and weather pros, or check the news feed with bulletins and videos. Read More

The weather app in iOS 5 has a new feature that lets you view the hourly forecast of the current day with a simple swipe of your finger. It's a minor improvement that doesn't compare with full-featured apps like Weather HD or Weather Bug Elite. But still, it's a nice touch for those that prefer the simplicity of the built-in app. Read More

Posted 06/01/2011 at 9:38am | by J Keirn-Swanson With all the crazy weather we’ve been having lately all across the country, you might want to think about upgrading from Apple’s pretty bare bones weather app to something with a little more umph to it. But where to start? The App Store is choked with weather apps, but the basics are pretty much a given. You want to know the temperature, what the weather will be like today, and a forecast into the near future. Is that too much to ask? Let’s find out.   Perhaps realizing that after you’ve covered the basics, there really isn’t much more to do, ITWC, the makers of Weather+ decided that pretty was the way to go. So they souped up their universal app with gorgeous weather-related backgrounds. Of course, there’s plenty besides pretty. Once you’ve inputted your location, Weather HD grabs the local time and Read More

There was a time when taking an electronic device with you on an adventure holiday would have been seen as sacrilege, as how would it be an adventure if you had that level of assistance?  Thankfully, we think things have changed, and your smartphone is seen as not only an essential safety tool, but something which can enhance your adventure too! If you’re planning an adventure this year, here are ten hints and tips about what to equip your iPhone with before you go. 1.  A Really Tough Case. If you’re going to be using your iPhone 4 in harsh environments, it’s going to need to be well protected.  There are several super-tough cases available for the iPhone, and we’ve previously reviewed the Ballistic HC for the iPhone 4 and the Otterbox for the 3G, and both are seriously hard wearing, sealed units able to withstand proper shocks. 2.  An Extended Read More

There isn’t too much to say about this app aside from the fact that it looks incredible and features one of the cleanest weather presentations I’ve seen in an app thus far. I’ll probably continue to use LockInfo 3.0 (jailbreak only) for my weather forecasts, but if you’ve been looking for a weather app that practically doubles as a screensaver, check this one out (and if you do, please let us know about the speed — WeatherHD took forever to load on my 3GS). Read More

posted by Jonathan Kizer on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 at 1:44 pm.   Originally submitted by Appman Looking for some iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad apps? Forum members Appman and ChrisL have you covered. This AOTW is dedicated to the best of 2010, as we prepare to welcome in the new year. According to Appman and ChrisL, the best apps of the year are: Plus 10 more honorable mentions. Want to know how they are ranked and reviewed? Click here. Here’s to hoping that 2011 brings as many amazing apps as 2010 did! Read More

The Web Development Series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here. Google officially unveiled its Chrome Web Store yesterday, and with it, a veritable treasure trove of highly optimized web apps that use technologies like JavaScript and HTML5 to create optimized experiences that blur the lines between web and desktop apps. We’ve already profiled some of those apps, most of which work on any modern browser, not just Google Chrome. A few months ago, we talked about how the iPad is transforming web design. We dubbed this phenomenon the “iPadification of the web.” As much as the iPad has had an influence on web design, its influence over this next wave of web applications is even more apparent. Looking through the Google Web Store, we couldn’t help but notice the similarities — in some cases perfect facsimiles — that some of Read More

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  Weather HD – the most gorgeous of weather apps – was updated to become a universal app last week – so it now runs on the iPhone and iPod Touch, as well as the iPad (where it started out). This app is not one that will offer you a deep look at current and future conditions, or an array of choices for weather maps. It offers just fairly basic weather information, but does so with great style. It’s been my favorite weather app on the iPad since the first day I spotted it. If you’re after a simple and beautiful weather app for your iOS devices, Weather HD is well worth a look. You can find it in the App Store now, priced at $0.99. Read More

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Here's an interesting look at just how big the iPad app market might be. Vimov, the makers of Weather HD, have used their own sales numbers to put together an analysis of what the top 1,000 iPad apps on the App Store are pulling in, and they've come up with a series of estimated sales for each position in the top 100. By their reasoning, the top paid app in the store sells about 5k copies per day, with the number two app selling about 3k, the number three app about 2.5k, and so on. Vimov estimates that everyone in the top 100 list, when you add them all together, is making about US$304,058 on any given day. The shelf drops off from there -- in the top 1000, developers are making about $372,000, and past that, they're obviously making less. So, what does this all mean? First, these are obviously Read More

The iPad is noticeably lacking a weather application in it's arsenal of remade apps. This is a large disappointment for most users because the weather app definitely needed an overhaul. Weather HD is an app trying to fill that void by bringing users the forecast and some amazing graphics for the iPad. The app allows a user to input a city they are interested in and then receive the weather for that area. Each time the weather is retrieved, the app plays a video depicting the atmosphere and conditions. Each video is absolutely stunning with some extremely artistic pictures of the current weather in the area. The app will also provide a weekly forecast for the chosen city and tapping on the various days will change the video to reflect the predicted weather on that day. The app doesn't really provide much more than an experience though. There are no weather Read More

Ya sabemos que por ahora, el iPad no incluirá una aplicación para saber el tiempo, tal como lom hace sus hermanos pequeños, así que hay que buscar alternativas si queremos estar informados. Weather HD, es una aplicación ya disponible, que nos muestra de una manera impresionante el estado del tiempo en cada momento. Para ellos, hace uso una serie de animaciones que lucen geniales, aprovechando la gran pantalla del iPad. Disponible: App Store Precio: 0,79€ Read More