Insurance For iPhones

The makers of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) website now have something new.  It’s an app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.  All the information you would look up on the IMDb website is available on the app.  You can see lists of cast members, actor credits, reviews from critics and other IMDb users, and more.  

The format for the mobile app is slightly different from the website.  By grouping things on the website into links that you can tap on, it’s easier to maneuver around the app.  On the iPhone and iPod touch, IMDb’s makers know that the amount of screen space is limited.  When you search for movies, instead of trying to fit the entire cast list onto a single screen, the IMDb app just lists the top billed actors.  From here, you can tap on their names to see what other movies they’ve appeared in or you can tap another link to get a full cast list on another screen.

The app is even easier to use on the iPad.  The app is different because with this one, when you tap on the link to see the entire cast list of a movie, it appears as a separate window on top of the main screen.  The same thing happens when you tap to show the pages for individual actors’ filmography.  This also shows up as a separate window, which gives you the information you want without making you to tap your way back to where you started. 

The IMDb app lets you view trailers.  The video player is built right into the app soo when you’re done watching the trailer, you go right back to the screen where you left off.  An IMDb button that is always shown lets you go right back to the app’s home page if you want quick access to the main menu of search categories.  This is nice because there are a lot of apps that would make you hunt to find your way back to the start.