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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 ...

Reasons why USB thumb drives are the wrong choice

by Erica Sadun (Sep 7th, 2011)

Photo: Dead Drops (Flickr) So yesterday, the TUAW backchannel got into a heated discussion about USB thumb drives. We had just posted about why Lion Version support was not available on non-HFS+ file systems. Our debate wasn't over whether they were good or not, but rather why they were a ...

iSwifter will bring Flash-free browsing to the Mac

by Steven Sande (Jul 26th, 2011)

Apple hasn't shipped Adobe Flash Player on Macs since last October, and the current shipping version of Flash Player has some incompatibilities with Lion that have yet to be fixed. If developer iSwifter has its way, you won't need Flash Player on any of your Apple devices. iSwifter currently ...

Adobe issues 'Correction regarding hardware acceleration of Flash Player on Mac OS X Lion'

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 22nd, 2011)

Well it's nice to see Adobe owning up to an error, even if the correction is buried on the Flash blog and issued as a midnight missive (OK, they've amended the tech note as well). Remember when Adobe issued a tech note saying hardware acceleration was disabled in Lion? Apparently Adobe was ...

iSuppli: Apple iCloud could affect NAND Flash market

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 18th, 2011)

Apple's upcoming iCloud service could have a negative effect on the NAND Flash market says IHS iSuppli. The market research firm suggests a change from phone and computer-based storage to online storage could lessen demand for flash memory in the future. Of course, iCloud in its current from is a ...

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 ...

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 ...