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Valve Officially Announces Steam for Mac in April – The Possibilities Are Endless

Just today, Valve officially announced that they’d be bringing their popular PC game store to the Mac in April – coincidentally near the time the iPad launches.
Steam has been re-knowned for it’s ease of access and wide selection of available games. If they can uphold the same standards for Mac, they’ll be golden. And hey, More >

Assassin’s Creed II: Multiplayer comes to the iPhone

A few months ago Ubisoft announced Assassin’s Creed II for iPhone and iPod Touch, now you can join your friends online in their top-down-style strategy game.
You take the role of one out of four characters each match and your job is to find your enemies. The game is all about being incognito and making wise, More >

[Update] Apple opens ‘Explicit’ section for App Store

Update: According to Gizmodo, Apple has talked to a developer, saying,
“it’s not going to happen anytime soon.”
Of course the quote is referring to Apple’s ‘Explicit’ category, which was open this morning and is now no where to be found.
After Apple announced a few days ago that they’d be getting rid of inappropriate applications in the More >

The virtual-personal assistant of your dreams. There’s an app for that.

Have you ever been sitting at home on your couch wondering what there is to do nearby? Or how about check the weather for any city? How about finding a new restaraunt? Siri can do that!
Siri, a free iPhone app (currently 3G S only) claims to be your “virtual-personal assistant”. It can do just about More >

How Apple’s evil plan is taking your money

Do you own an iPod, iPhone, Mac, or Macbook? Guess what, you’re part of Apple’s genius plan to take our money.
When the App Store launched in 2007, there were only a few hundred apps. A few months later it got into thousands, and now the App Store hosts over 150,000 apps. Every app is different More >

Comparison: Meebo Vs. Nimbuzz

Meebo, a company who’s been offering a great chat client for a couple years, has now arrived for iPhone/iTouch.
If you have a Facebook, Twitter, AIM, Yahoo!, Myspace, ICQ, MSN, or Jabber (not to mention a whole handful of other services), Meebo might just be your new best friend!
With push notifications, widescreen/portrait mode, and lots of More >

Macworld 2010: Analysis and Goodies

On February 13th, part of the SimFlecks Team went to Macworld 2010 (San Francisco).
If you’ve never gone, Macworld is basically a trade-show with optional training sessions. Last year, Apple announced that they wouldn’t attend any future Macworld expos since they have so many stores, which makes a lot of sense for Apple, but it hurts More >

How to: Set-up Facebook chat on your desktop client

Just the other day Facebook announced that anyone could access Facebook chat from their favorite desktop clients. We’ve made a list of steps to help you start chatting from your desktop, enjoy!
Pidgin (PC):

Go to “Accounts” > “Manage Accounts”
Enter the following information:

Protocol: XMPP
Username: <yourusername> (this is your nickname, go to your profile and the text after More >

Hate typing on the iPhone? Meet TextExpander!

TextExpander has to be one of the most creative and useful apps I’ve seen in a long time.
If you don’t like typing out long messages, TextExpander is for you! It’s really as easy as typing in the abbreviation and message. You could even copy-paste a book into it and when you typed the abbreviation (like More >

iPhone to receive Opera Mini browser?

[From Opera's blog] Opera Software, maker of the world’s most popular mobile Web browser, plans to reveal Opera Mini for iPhone in an exclusive press and partner preview during the 2010 Mobile World Congress (MWC). Visit Opera’s exhibit in Hall 1, C44, to witness a new way to surf the Web on the iPhone — More >

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