07Dec2010
Instant Anatomy Flash Card iPhone App
Introducing Instant Anatomy’s just released application for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users called Anatomy Flash Card. This app is perfect for everyone who is studying anatomy: medical or nursing students, biological studies students and physiotherapists or doctors looking to refresh their knowledge.App includes 600 diagrams or flash cards covering most aspects of human anatomy.The diagrams can be zoomed in using the pinch gesture and are presented in landscape or portrait.Note that the
Read MoreLeave a Comment03Dec2010
Flash on iPhone, But Not the One You Think
The iFlash not a battery-sucking, CPU-choking browser plugin. Instead, it’s an LED lamp that plugs into the dock-connector of any iPhone or iPod and provides a “flash” for your photos. It’s self-powered, so you won’t drain your battery, and you’ll have to switch it on and off manually, making the dock-connector little more than a mounting point for the light. And that’s not the only hole it will fill on the iPhone: a little plastic jack-plug will let you dangle the dongle from
Read MoreLeave a Comment02Dec2010
FireCore debuts aTV Flash (black) for current AppleTVs
FireCore, known for the aTV Flash for previous-generation Apple TVs, have announced a Mac-only public beta for its new hack, which works with the latest AppleTV's running iOS 4.0 (only -- 4.1 compatibility coming soon) and adds additional features beyond what the Apple software provides, including web surfing, Last.fm access, and support from some HTML5 video sites. The beta, known as aTV Flash (black), also acts as a client for a Mac-based Plex media server, and can stream feeds of news and
Read MoreLeave a Comment19Nov2010
Adobe Testing MacBook Air-Optimized Version of Flash Player
Wednesday November 17, 2010 01:45 PM ESTWritten by Eric Slivka The ongoing spat between Apple and Adobe over Flash technology took another interesting turn over the past month as the new MacBook Air became Apple's first Mac to ship without Flash Player pre-installed. A review from Ars Technica noted that the battery life of the small notebook took a significant hit when browsing the Web with Flash Player installed, leading Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch to observe that it takes
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Adobe Testing MacBook Air-Optimized Version of Flash Player
Wednesday November 17, 2010 01:45 PM ESTWritten by Eric Slivka The ongoing spat between Apple and Adobe over Flash technology took another interesting turn over the past month as the new MacBook Air became Apple's first Mac to ship without Flash Player pre-installed. A review from Ars Technica noted that the battery life of the small notebook took a significant hit when browsing the Web with Flash Player installed, leading Adobe Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch to observe that it takes
Read MoreLeave a Comment17Nov2010
Adobe testing optimized version of Flash for Apple’s MacBook Air
Adobe testing optimized version of Flash for Apple's MacBook AirBy Slash LanePublished: 01:45 PM EST Adobe's chief executive revealed this week that his company is currently testing an optimized version of Flash built specifically for Apple's newly released MacBook Air.In an interview at the Web 2.0 Summit this week, Shantanu Narayen said that Adobe is looking to improve battery life on the MacBook Air with a new custom build of Adobe Flash, currently in beta testing in the company's labs.
Read MoreLeave a Comment14Nov2010
Adobe CTO on Flash’s Effect on Battery Life, Apple’s Negative Campaigning
In its review of the new 11-inch MacBook Air published last week, Ars Technica noted that the battery life of the machine takes a substantial hit when browsing sites with Adobe's Flash Player enabled, pointing to the prevalence of CPU-heavy Flash ads in use on the Internet. Having Flash installed can cut battery runtime considerably - as much as 33 percent in our testing. With a handful of websites loaded in Safari, Flash-based ads kept the CPU running far more than seemed necessary, and
Read MoreLeave a Comment11Aug2010
Hardware acceleration added to Flash Player 10.1 for Mac
Adobe has released a new version of its Flash Player for Mac that officially supports hardware acceleration for H.264 video content. The update 10.1.82.76 was announced Tuesday by Adobe product manager Thibault Imbert on his blog. The feature, code-named "Gala," had been announced several months prior, but was unavailable with the official release of Flash Player 10.1 for Mac in June. In a break from usual protocol, Adobe enabled the new feature in a security release. Hardware
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European Commission Joins Investigation of Apple’s Flash Exclusion Policies
The New York Post reports that the European Commission has taken an interest in Apple's long-standing exclusion of Adobe's Flash from its iOS devices, as well as its ban on Adobe's Flash-to-iPhone compiler and similar tools designed to allow non-native applications to be recompiled for the iOS platform. The paper was the first to report back in May that U.S. regulators were considering an inquiry into the situation. In June, the FTC opened an investigation into Apple's decision to ban
Read MoreLeave a Comment09Aug2010
Flash for iPhone 4? Yes! Frash 0.02!
DISCLAIMER: The compiled binaries are based upon ALPHA code by COMEX. Code from the github repository can change minutely creating a significantly more stable version of code. DO NOT expect this compiled code to work on every Flash object or even be the slightest bit stable. So, jailbreak for the iPhone 4 is out and comex seems to have gotten around to updating the Frash source on github for both iOS and iPhone 4. Hooray! I set out on a mission to compile it from scratch. Here I’ll detail
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