Flash

Mobile

Blurry Mobile Phone Shots Could Be Eliminated With This Flash-Boosting Chip

11:15AM February 3, 2012 | Andrew Liszewski

STMicroelectronics hopes to make the wimpy LED flash on your smartphone as bright as the xenon flash in your camera with a new chip that packs a supercapacitor for quick bursts of power. More »


Gadgets

Apple Gulps Memory Company In Stuff Not Posted

4:00PM December 14, 2011 | Brian Barrett

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case. More »


Software

Flash Isn’t Dead On Either Mobile Or Desktop

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10:45AM November 22, 2011 | Alex Kidman

At least, that’s the word according to Paul Burnett, Adobe’s Open Web Evangelist. I’m just off a call from him regarding Android ICS Flash, Flash on the desktop and Adobe’s development future. More »


Software

Occupy Flash Wants You To Ditch Adobe For Good

4:00AM November 22, 2011 | Sam Gibbs

Apple might have forced Adobe to kill Flash mobile, but Occupy Flash wants to unite the world in eradicating Flash from the desktop as well. The goal is simple: get everyone to uninstall Flash Player and you can join the fight now. More »


Software

Adobe: Apple Pretty Much Murdered Mobile Flash

6:30AM November 14, 2011 | Sam Biddle

This isn’t all that much of a shock, but it does confirm what we already suspected. Adobe says iOS rejection killed Flash. More »


Software

RIM Promises To Keep Flash Alive On PlayBook

2:46AM November 11, 2011 | Sam Biddle

RIM, with a finger in each ear and a third, cybernetic arm poking out its own eyeballs, has decided to license Flash from Adobe and keep it alive for PlayBook, AllThingsD reports. Nothing says the future like supporting dead technology! More »


Mobile

Report: Adobe Pulling The Plug On Mobile Flash

8:45AM November 10, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

Wow. It seems Adobe is stopping development of its Flash Player for mobile browsers. The company will reportedly continue to support existing Android and BlackBerry Playbook configurations of the player, but future development will be focused on developing HTML5 and apps. More »


Cameras

RoundFlash Soft Box Improves Portraits With Doughnut Diffuser

2:40AM October 28, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

To avoid shadows on their face and to produce a lovely halo effect in their eyes, portrait photographers often use a ring flash, which completely encircles the lens with light for even illumination. But it also results in a telltale darkened halo around the subject that the cheaper RoundFlash could alleviate. More »


Computing

Just Patched Flash Exploit Let Others Spy On You

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1:30PM October 23, 2011 | Logan Booker

A Stanford University student recently discovered a security flaw with Adobe’s Flash Player that allowed malicious users to activate your webcam and microphone without your knowledge. They could then tap into the video and audio to watch and listen to your every move. More »


Software

New Adobe Exploit Could Give Any Website Access To Your Webcam

6:49AM October 21, 2011 | Brent Rose

A Stanford computer science student named Feross Aboukhadijeh has uncovered a pretty major security hole in Adobe Flash, in which somebody could turn on your Mac’s webcam and mic and save that video for whatever nefarious purposes. Oh good. More »