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Trojan variation disables Mac malware protection

by Chris Rawson (Oct 19th, 2011)

Researchers from F-Secure warn that a variant on a trojan discovered in September, which masquerades as an Adobe Flash Player installer, now exists and is capable of disabling OS X's built-in malware protection. OSX/Flashback.C disables the auto-updater component of XProtect, which means the ...

Google Music beta ready for iOS

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 9th, 2011)

Google Music beta lets you upload your music library to Google's servers and stream the content to web-connected devices like your computer or Android handset, but not iOS. Several months after launch, the service now supports iOS via a web app optimized for the iPhone, iPod touch and the ...

Apple updates malware definitions to address fake Flash player trojan

by Mike Schramm (Aug 12th, 2011)

Apple's updated an entry in the anti-malware files of OS X to lock down a trojan that pretends to be a Flash player installer, but actually hijacks users' search results. The trojan is known as "OSX.QHost.WB.A," and claims to install Flash, but instead redirects Google results to an IP in the ...

Adobe releases Flash 11 and AIR 3 betas

by Chris Rawson (Jul 15th, 2011)

Adobe has released betas of both Flash 11 and Air 3 for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. The new features that caught my eye right away include full 64-bit support for Flash Player running in browsers (even in Linux!) and support for delivery of full HD video with 7.1 surround sound to AIR-powered ...

Flash Player for Mac updated to 10.3, adds preference pane and auto-updates

by Michael Rose (May 14th, 2011)

The beta version of Flash Player 10.3 gave way Thursday to the release version, downloadable freely from Adobe for installation on your Mac. The new build finally restores auto-update capability, which was unstable or unsupported on Mac OS X for quite a while. Now you'll be prompted to patch ...

Removing Flash from your Mac

by Dana Franklin (May 12th, 2011)

Back in October, Apple shipped its first MacBook Air models without the Adobe Flash plug-in pre-installed. In the ensuing brouhaha, Ars Technica discovered Flash cut battery life by up to 33 percent on the MacBook Air and possibly other MacBook models. Personally, my MacBook often sounds like it's ...

Google's cloud music service to launch without iOS support

by Chris Rawson (May 10th, 2011)

According to CNET, Google will unveil its cloud music service, Music Beta, at the I/O Developer Conference. The free service will be invitation-only (and US-only) at launch, and it will allow users to upload up to 20,000 songs onto Google's servers and stream that music to many web-connected ...

Adobe's Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat updated to close critical security hole

by Matt Tinsley (Mar 23rd, 2011)

Adobe has issued an update to its popular Flash Player plug-in as well as its Reader and Acrobat software for viewing and editing PDF (portable document format) files. According to Adobe's security bulletin and advisories webpage, a critical vulnerability has been identified in the above ...

Flash Player 10.2 now available, boosts video performance and drops PPC support

by Matt Tinsley (Feb 9th, 2011)

Adobe has officially released Flash Player 10.2 for Mac, and it's available for download now. However, Power PC Macs of old are not supported in this version. One of the main new features of Flash Player 10.2 is Stage Video. Building on the H.264 hardware-accelerated decoding found in Flash ...

Rest in peace, Adobe Media Player... you will not be missed

by Matthew David (Dec 15th, 2010)

After today, Adobe Media Player won't be available for download from Adobe's site. Adobe Media Player was a solution looking for a problem, so I'm not surprised to see that today will be the player's last day. Sometimes great ideas are looking to solve a problem that does not exist. Adobe's Media ...

Flash plugin absence on MacBook Air was deliberate, says Apple

by Michael Rose (Oct 22nd, 2010)

Several of the folks lucky enough to get their hands on new MacBook Air review units noticed something a little strange: the Adobe Flash Player, usually bundled as a browser plugin with new Mac OS X installations, was AWOL. It wasn't clear at first if this was an early-build hiccup or a design ...

Adobe posts Flash Player 10.1 for Mac

by Dave Caolo (Jun 11th, 2010)

At long last, Adobe has released Flash Player 10.1 for Mac OS X. There's a huge list of changes with this update; hopefully one will address "...the number one reason Macs crash." The major changes are aimed at developers, and include GPU hardware acceleration, support for dynamic quality during ...

Apple throws Adobe a bone -- on the Mac

by Chris Rawson (Apr 22nd, 2010)

Adobe's Flash Player has never performed as well in Mac OS X as it does on Windows-running PCs. The traditionally poor performance of Adobe's plugin on the Mac has led many iPhone and iPad users to support Apple's decision to keep Flash off of its mobile devices. While the upcoming Flash 10.1 does ...

YouTube videos now available in HTML5: Good riddance, Flash

by Chris Rawson (Jan 21st, 2010)

We haven't exactly been secretive about our distaste for Adobe's Flash Player here at TUAW. Flash on the Mac has traditionally been a terrible resource hog, and while the pre-release of Flash Player 10.1 alleviated (to an extent) Flash's inordinately high CPU usage, many of us still dreamed of a ...

Flash beta update, Perian gets a refresh

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 18th, 2009)

There were two minor video plug-in related updates last night. First Adobe released a new beta of their Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 (this on the heels of a set of security patches for the stable release version last week). Flash 10.1 is introducing a host of new features, but is primarily aimed at the ...