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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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Vimeo Videos Get Friendly With The iPhone And Android
10:34PM Danny Allen | I love Vimeo’s video quality, but unlike YouTube, it doesn’t make my uploads iPhone friendly. But that may change: they’ve already converted all “Staff Picks” and HD video showcases into iPhone and Android-friendly formats, and say there’s more to come. 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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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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Rumour: Full Flash, Silverlight Coming To BlackBerry Browser
4:41AM John Herrman | It’s pretty much a given that every major smartphone OS has Flash support in its sights, but BlackBerry and Adobe have been alarmingly mum on the subject. Today, Boy Genius, a certifiable BlackBerry nut, has news: It’s coming. More »
Peripherals
The Wall-E USB Drive Is Too Cute For Even Baby Talk To Describe
11:00PM Mark Wilson | ZOMG I just want to nom nom zuh cute wittle Wall-WE USB Dwive. $US65 for 8GB. Kissies and sunshine! [Etsy via Geeky Gadgets] More »
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