As you may have heard, Apple released their next gen­er­a­tion of iPod Touches at their annual music event today. Obvi­ously, the iPod Touch has been lack­ing a cam­era of any sort since it first debuted in 2007. With the new hard­ware upgrade, the iPod Touch can do Face­Time — one of the rumors that came […]

As you may have read a few days ago, Apple will be hav­ing their annual “Music Event” tomor­row. And, if you’re like the rest of us, you’re prob­a­bly curi­ous about the spec­u­la­tion of what will be announced tomor­row; a new iPod Touch, iTunes.com, etc. Well, we’ve writ­ten about most of the rumors, which you can […]

Well, now we finally know what the future of the iMac is — a hybrid of Mac OS X and iOS. A patent from Apple yes­ter­day out­lined what looks to be the future of Mac hard­ware alike. As you can see in the pic­ture above, the newly patented “iMac Touch” design (named by Patently Apple) […]

With the recently launched Face­book Places, we thought it would be fun to show you how to beat the sys­tem and appear wher­ever in the world you like. Let’s Do This 1. To do this, you will need Fire­fox (free) because it allows us to edit the con­fig file eas­ily. Now that it’s down­loaded, type “about:config” into […]

It’s been a wild ride here at Sim­Flecks. When we first started, last August, we had only three authors. Ian, Par­teek, and myself. We began writ­ing about top­ics that inter­ested us. I wrote about App Store appli­ca­tions, Par­teek wrote about Android, and Ian wrote about pretty much what­ever “inter­est­ing” things he found. Months went by and […]

A new soft­ware update is in the works right now at Apple. Accord­ing to AppleIn­sider, we can expect mul­ti­ple fixes, includ­ing the prox­im­ity sen­sor and also issues with Blue­tooth con­nec­tiv­ity, along with a new look for Game Cen­ter (still to be released). Prox­im­ity Sen­sor Users have reported that while on a phone call, their screen […]

With today’s announce­ment of Face­book Places, Face­book has offi­cially joined the very busy mar­ket of location-based check-ins and loca­tion shar­ing. We can expect Face­book Places to be a very suc­cess­ful appli­ca­tion because of one sim­ple fact: acces­si­bil­ity. Face­book has 500 mil­lion users, and many of them use mobile devices to enhance their Face­book expe­ri­ence. Places […]

Paul Devine, an Apple iPod Oper­a­tions Man­ager, has been accused of accept­ing more than $1 mil­lion in kick­backs from sup­pli­ers of iPhone and iPod acces­sories in Asia. Devine sup­pos­edly used his secu­rity clear­ance at Apple to pro­vide con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion about upcom­ing prod­ucts to Apple’s sup­pli­ers. Accord­ing to the indict­ment, sup­pli­ers then used the secrets to nego­ti­ate favor­able contracts […]

It almost feels like there’s this sort of con­tin­u­ous belief that the iPhone will be drop­ping it’s exclu­sive car­rier deal. We’ve been hear­ing rumors about an iPhone run­ning on other net­works pretty much since the first iPhone was released. But accord­ing to TechCrunch, we can expect Apple to open up the car­rier list as soon […]

Today, MacRu­mors received some pic­tures of what could very well be the next gen­er­a­tion iPod Touch from an iPhone parts sup­plier. As you can see, the cas­ing reveals a spot for a cam­era. Of course this isn’t the first image we’ve seen of a rumored new iPod Touch, but it def­i­nitely sup­ple­ments it’s pre­de­ces­sor images […]

Well yes­ter­day I decided to do some­thing I was sure I wouldn’t do. Jail­break­ing, that is. Why did you do it? Well, I guess I just couldn’t stand see­ing that bor­ing lockscreen any more. When I wrote about fea­tures we’d love to see in iOS 4 , I couldn’t get over the rumored image — which can […]

Did you jail­break or root your device? The Library of Con­gress under­stands. They’ve even cre­ated an anti-circumvention excep­tion to the DMCA. Basi­cally all they ask is that you don’t pirate the soft­ware, in return you can make your device do what­ever you like. From the Library of Con­gress: Com­puter pro­grams that enable wire­less tele­phone hand­sets to execute […]