Have you ever out and about when all of a sudden you felt the urge to see a movie? You could a) find the nearest phone book and call a theatre that you know of, b) look online with your computer “if you have it with you”, c) drive straight to the theatre even if the last show just finished and you might just have to drive all the way home. Well, I’m pleased to tell you there is a 4th option. Option d) also known as Flixster for the iPhone.
Flixster’s interface is simple. At the top is your toolbar. There you’ll find navigation buttons that change based on what you have selected in the bottom toolbar. In the “Box Office” section, these top toolbar buttons allow you to sort via “Popular”, “Movie Ratings”, or the movie’s “Title”. You can also do a text search by taping the magnifying glass.
In the middle is where you view the main content – movie information. In the screenshot to the right, you ll see a list of popular movies currently headed or currently in theaters. Each movie is easily identified by an available movie poster along with it’s title, actors, length, and release date. Tapping on one brings you to a view with a synopsis as well as reviews by Flixster users and critics.
to browse movies by theatre. Flixster also uses your iPhone/iPod Touch’s core location features to tell you where the closest movie theater is. You then can get directions or contact information as well as what movies are playing at the selected movie theater as well as show times for a particular show.
Other features include viewing high-quality trailers, checking out what’s coming soon to a theatre by you by tapping the “Upcoming” section or what’s coming to DVD via the “DVD” section and if you have a Facebook account, you can rate movies and share ratings with your friends. Flixster has barely any bugs and is (at the time of writing) in version 1.0.
Flixster is available at the iTunes App Store for the price of FREE.
Source: http://macapper.com/2009/04/09/iphone-app-flixster-movie-theater-info-at-your-fingertips/
Flixster’s interface is simple. At the top is your toolbar. There you’ll find navigation buttons that change based on what you have selected in the bottom toolbar. In the “Box Office” section, these top toolbar buttons allow you to sort via “Popular”, “Movie Ratings”, or the movie’s “Title”. You can also do a text search by taping the magnifying glass.
In the middle is where you view the main content – movie information. In the screenshot to the right, you ll see a list of popular movies currently headed or currently in theaters. Each movie is easily identified by an available movie poster along with it’s title, actors, length, and release date. Tapping on one brings you to a view with a synopsis as well as reviews by Flixster users and critics.
to browse movies by theatre. Flixster also uses your iPhone/iPod Touch’s core location features to tell you where the closest movie theater is. You then can get directions or contact information as well as what movies are playing at the selected movie theater as well as show times for a particular show.
Other features include viewing high-quality trailers, checking out what’s coming soon to a theatre by you by tapping the “Upcoming” section or what’s coming to DVD via the “DVD” section and if you have a Facebook account, you can rate movies and share ratings with your friends. Flixster has barely any bugs and is (at the time of writing) in version 1.0.
Flixster is available at the iTunes App Store for the price of FREE.
Source: http://macapper.com/2009/04/09/iphone-app-flixster-movie-theater-info-at-your-fingertips/
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