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Screenshots of Facebook's Project Spartan on iPhone

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 6th, 2011)

Project Spartan, an HTML5-based version of Facebook, continues to move forward, according to a leak from TechCrunch. Screenshots of the web app and some inside information from the developers working on the project reveal a content-rich platform for mobile devices. The new UI modifies the ...

Google helps developers deliver Flash content to HTML5 with Swiffy

by Mel Martin (Jun 29th, 2011)

With minimal fanfare, Google has released Swiffy. It lets developers convert Flash SWF files to HTML5 so they are usable on Mobile Safari and other platforms that do not support Flash. For Adobe, the company that created Flash and aimed to have it to be the major animation and video standard on ...

Is Facebook's Project Spartan going after Apple's app lock?

by Steven Sande (Jun 16th, 2011)

Facebook was apparently spurned by Apple in favor of Twitter for close integration in iOS 5, but the social networking giant is now moving ahead with plans to bypass the App Store with an upcoming HTML5 web app aimed at Mobile Safari -- Project Spartan. This not-so-secret project has been ...

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen confirms unofficial armistice with Jobs, Apple

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jun 3rd, 2011)

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen told Walt Mossberg during an interview that the dispute between Adobe and Apple over Flash is a thing of the past. Adobe and Steve Jobs went head to head last year when the Apple CEO publicly criticized the multimedia company and banned apps that were created using ...

Spriteloq helps Flash game developers move assets to Corona

by Mike Schramm (Jun 1st, 2011)

Spriteloq is a new tool for Flash developers looking to make iOS games with the Corona SDK, now available on the project's website. The Corona SDK is a third-party software development kit used to put together iOS games and apps (we've covered it and spoken with the creators before). It allows ...

80% of mobile videos watched happen on iOS devices

by Michael Grothaus (May 23rd, 2011)

The New York Times is reporting on a FreeWheel study [PDF] that says the majority of video views that happen on a mobile device occur on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. The iPhone and iPod touch account for a 30 percent share each, while the iPad accounts for a 20 percent share. About 19 percent ...

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 plans to add HTTP Live Streaming to Flash Media Server to support iOS

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 16th, 2011)

Adobe showcased several new and upcoming features of its Flash Media Server during the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show last week. One interesting feature for media producers who plan to target iOS users is the eventual addition of the iPhone-friendly HTTP Live Streaming to ...

Adobe TV comes to iPad and iPhone

by Michael Rose (Apr 11th, 2011)

In the flurry of overnight news from Adobe around the pre-launch of CS5.5 and the iPad/Photoshop goodness to come, one official blog post slipped under the radar. While it's not necessarily pinned to CS5.5, it is fantastic news for anyone who uses Adobe's video training resources to learn the ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Is Flash video working on iPad yet?

by Erica Sadun (Apr 5th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I keep hearing about applications like Skyfire working on the iPad so we can watch Flash video. But when I hop over to Hulu, it says I have to join Hulu Plus to view videos. Why does Hulu act like this? What am I doing wrong? Love, Your nephew Chris W. ...

Use AppleScript to open current Safari URL in Google Chrome

by TJ Luoma (Mar 14th, 2011)

I've been using John Gruber's suggestions from Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It to avoid installing Adobe Flash by using Google Chrome (which includes its own version of Flash) whenever I run into a page that has Flash I want to see. To make this easier, John ...

Adobe's Wallaby hints at cracks in Flash armor

by Lauren Hirsch (Mar 9th, 2011)

The standoff between Adobe and Apple has been the stuff of legends. Neither Adobe, which rightfully maintained that it could not be ignored because a serious chunk of web content was delivered by its proprietary Flash format, nor Apple, which doesn't like ceding anything to anybody....ever, seemed ...

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 ...