Make use of your unused CD slot with the ExoMount Touch CD!

There’s nothing worse for your iPhone battery health than heat. Yet time and again, people buy vent-attached car mounts that heat up and harm their batteries. Short term, your screen can go dim and your phone could even shut down. Long term, your battery could suffer permanent damage.

That’s where ExoGear’s ExoMount Touch CD comes in. Instead of using the event, it makes use of the — probably unused in the age of digital music — CD slot, and that not only puts it at the perfect height and angle, it protects it from harm as well.

The plastic slits that most car vents use can easily be snapped when inserting or removing a phone from a vent mount. Unless you’re sporting a magnetically attached phone mount, you’re best served by using two hands when mounting and unmounting your phone. The connection to your CD slot offers a very sturdy and stable mount point (I was surprised at how little the mount moved). The m…

Apple has problems. Every company does. These are the ones I consider most critical to the company’s long-term success — the ones they need to start aggressively addressing in 2018.

The reason I spend so much time knocking down dumb Apple FUD is because all those click-bait headlines do is drown out the real issues facing the company, now and into the future.

I focus on those issues year-round in all of my reviews and editorials. Once a year, though, I try to break out what I think are the most current and most critical. Last year, that included everything from failure to ship to the horn effect. The year before, product vision and constraints.

This year, I’m focusing on something bigger. A reckoning of sorts.

Apple has grown enormously over the last decade. That’s created cultural and technical debt. And, as we go into 2018, it feels like a lot of that debt is coming due.

Extracting signal from noise

Apple gets told it’s wrong all the time. Doesn’t matter if it’s iPhone …

The good, the bad, and the superb! Let’s take a look back at all the iOS games we reviewed in 2017.

Normally, every Thursday I tell you what new game I’ve been playing each week, but with all the Christmas celebrations with my family and friends, and getting ready to board a plane to ring in 2018 out of town, I haven’t played anything this week.

The good news is 2017 was a pretty good year for iOS gamers. With a plethora of great sequels, new titles, and some fantastic ports of console games, I wrote about a lot of games this year. Let’s take a look back at all the awesome games we reviewed!

Games I reviewed this year

I took a look at a lot of games this past year, some of them good, some of them bad, and some of them were superb! Here’s a walk down memory lane at just a few of my thoughts on each title I reviewed in 2017!

Milkmaid of the Milky Way

Intrigued by the title, I downloaded Milkmaid of the Milky Way on somewhat of a whim, not really sure what to expect. The premise…

This Apple Watch accessory is a must-have for the active lifestyle.

The Twelve South ActionSleeve armband for Apple Watch is now on sale at Amazon for just $14.99 with several colors and sizes available. This is this Apple Watch accessory’s lowest price ever and 50% off what it normally sells for.

The ActionSleeve protects the Apple Watch as you exercise while allowing for data tracking and accessibility. Its consistent skin contact provides superior heart rate tracking and significantly reduced data drop outs. Worn on your upper arm, it allows you to stay connected even during training of sports that would normally require you to remove your watch, like Kickboxing, Weightlifting and CrossFit.

Black: 38mm, 42mm
Red: 38mm, 42mm
Slim Black: 38mm
The ActionSleeve is just one of the awesome Apple accessories made by TwelveSouth that are currently on sale on Amazon.

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When was the last time you went through and organized your email inbox? Are those useless emails piling up? If your mailbox is overloaded with promo emails, app notifications, and unread messages, you might not know where to start.

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Right now, iMore Digital Offers has a great deal on a lifetime subscription for CleanEmail. For just $59.99 you can keep up to five mail accounts clean with no limitations. CleanEmail is built to work with all major browsers, with all email clients, and on all devices so you’ll be able to keep your emails sorted across all your devices and accounts.

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Are you a refund saver or spender?

For today only, Amazon is offering TurboTax Deluxe + State for just $49.86 and including a free $10 Amazon gift card with each purchase. This version of TurboTax normally sells for $60 on Amazon and $70 on TurboTax’s website. Taking the $10 gift card into account, getting this product for just $40 is a steal.

This deal is for the physical disc of the software which is compatible with both Mac and PC (if you have a disc drive on the computer that is). You can also grab the Digital PC version with the gift card for the same price. Amazon also includes a one-year subscription to Quicken Starter Edition 2018 with this purchase. With Tax Filing Season coming up, now’s the perfect time to have this product on-hand and at a discount.

TurboTax gives you everything you need to properly file your taxes and receive your maximum refund back. Deluxe is the most popular version of the software as it allows you to maximize tax deductions and credits. TurboTax a…

A high-quality Lightning cable will save you lots of frustration. Here’s a quick guide to getting durable cables that will last a long time!

We use Lightning cables every day to charge up our iPhones and iPads: It’s no surprise that eventually you’re going to notice some wear and tear, especially if you carry a single cable around to charge in multiple places. Just take a second and think about everything your average Lightning cable goes through over the course of a month in your possession. Chances are, you’ve yanked it out of a few wall outlets to change charging locations, brought it out to your car and stuffed it in your center console between trips around the city, and even shoved it — tangled and twisted — into the odd bag. That’s all normal wear and tear that will eventually kill your Apple Lightning cable, and nothing sucks more than having a destroyed charging cable when you really need it.

Here’s the thing: The Lightning cable you get from Apple whe…

Don’t get taunted by the red bubbles of missed notifications ever again!

This Twelve South HiRise 2 adjustable charging stand is down to $33.99 on Amazon. It dropped to $32 around Black Friday, but that sale was brief and beyond that it rarely ever drops from its $40 street price.

You can also upgrade to the HiRise 2 Deluxe. It’s on sale for $49.99 from a normal price around $60. The main difference between the Deluxe and the regular is the Deluxe ships with a Lightning cable and microUSB cable, while the regular version has no cables included.

The Deluxe is also available in White, which is down to $37.99 right now with this sale. However, all the versions of the Deluxe seem to be limited in stock.

Both the HiRise 2 and HiRise 2 Deluxe are compatible with all Lightning-powered Apple devices except the 12.9-inch iPad Pro.

Features include

Tabletop charging dock that works exclusively with your Apple Lightning Cable (not included) to create the ultimate home for your iDevices wh…

What’s the best display, external storage, eGPU, VR headset, camera, audio interface, speaker system, mouse, and more — if you have an iMac Pro, we have the accessories for you!

iMac Pro is one hell of a machine but not just for all the hardware it is packing on the inside. With everything from Thunderbolt 3 to 10Gb/s Ethernet to USB-C and USB-A on the back, it’s Apple’s most expandable iMac yet.

So, if you’re looking to take your next-level iMac Pro to another level entirely, hang on to your wallet and check out these accessories.

Displays

iMac Pro has a 5K display. It can also drive up to two external 5K displays. (It can drive up to four external 4K displays as well, but unless you want a wall of screens, 5K is more efficient.)

You can get the LG Ultrafine 5K, which is the one recommended and sold by Apple. It’s the same panel used in iMacs and, after fixing a nasty problem with the shielding when it first shipped, it works fine now as well. The casing is just… blah…

Wanna clean up your Home screen? Here’s how to move apps around, quit ’em, or just plain get rid of ’em!

The beauty of any smartphone is the ability to download all the apps you have room for. Once those apps are downloaded, however, it’s important to organize them efficiently. And if you feel like you have too many open at one time, you can just quit them. If you need to make room for more apps or you’re just sick of certain ones (cough Facebook cough), then you can just delete them.

Here’s how!

How to rearrange apps

Even though you don’t spend a lot of time on the Home screen for iPhone and iPad, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take some time to make it your own, including switching up the wallpaper. You can also organize it up to make your apps easier to find, either by moving them around or by creating and putting them into folders.

How to rearrange apps on your iPhone and iPad

How to force quit apps

iOS is designed to manage its own multitasking. When you leave an app…