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Flash 10.1 Tests: Hardware Accelerated HD Video? Yes Please

12:07AM Danny Allen | The first Flash 10.1 desktop player beta has arrived, and AnandTech has put the new GPU-accelerated video playback to the test. And while the OS X version currently lacks graphics acceleration, Flash 10.1 still serves up improvements on the Mac. More »
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Adobe Flash 10.1 And AIR 2.0 Betas Released: Life Is Better Now

4:11PM Matt Buchanan | The first betas of Adobe Flash 10.1 and AIR 2.0 — delivering full GPU acceleration for buttery smooth Flash video playback and multitouch gesture support — are out. You should get them now. More »
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Adobe Gets Sharky Snarky With Apple’s iPhone Flash Ban

7:16AM Jesus Diaz | Pulling a Donald Sutherland in Body Snatchers, Adobe shows its darkest side screaming and pointing the finger at Apple in this Flash installation web page for iPhone users. More »
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Adobe Unleashes The 40% Off Ninjas To Tackle Piracy

3:33PM Nick Broughall | Adobe knows your copy of Creative Suite 4 is “borrowed” from a friend. A friend you randomly met on the Internet, whose name you don’t know and probably never will. Fortunately, they’re doing something about it, so long as you’re a student. More »
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Flash Apps To Arrive On The iPhone, But Not On Safari

9:47AM Jesus Diaz | After today’s bad news, Adobe Senior Product Manager for Developer Relations Mike Chambers has announced a way to put Flash into the iPhone: Compile Flash into full standalone applications for the App Store. This solves part of the iPhone-Flash conundrum. More »
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Full Flash For Everyone But iPhone, Actually Playable HD Vids

3:01PM Matt Buchanan | A ton of good news about Adobe Flash 10.1: Full Flash is coming to Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile. And it’ll be actually GPU accelerated, meaning you can play back YouTube in HD perfectly. But the bad news? More »
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GPU-Accelerated Flash Player: Smooth HD Video Arrives Next Month

12:00AM Jesus Diaz | At last, here’s a GPU-accelerated Flash player. That means two things: One, my laptop won’t melt every time I run video streaming sites. Two, since almost every Nvidia GPU is supported, even smartphones will be able to play HD Flash video. More »
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If You Got Snow Leopard, Go Upgrade Adobe Flash NOW

11:19PM Jesus Diaz | Oh, the irony. While Apple killed some old apps in Snow Leopard, they also left inside an old Adobe Flash player, version 10.0.23.1. The current Flash version is 10.0.32.18, which fixes some security holes that you obviously don’t need. So go get it here. [Adobe via PC World]
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Adobe CS4 Compatible With Snow Leopard, Who Knows About CS3

8:20AM Jason Chen | Here’s Adobe’s message behind their Adobe CS4/Snow Leopard compatibility report: please buy Adobe CS4 and stop using Adobe CS3. More »
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PSA: 64-Bit Apps Don’t Always Run Faster

4:40AM Matt Buchanan | We’ve been pretty big advocating that you go 64-bit with your next OS—mainly because it’ll let you use gobs more RAM. Keep in mind, though, just because an application is 64-bit doesn’t necessarily mean it’ll be faster: [Adobe]