Software

New Adobe Exploit Could Give Any Website Access To Your Webcam

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.


September 22, 2011
Gaming

Adobe’s Latest Version Of Flash And Air Does Console-Like Gaming?

Adobe is working on new versions of Flash Player and Air that could bring some compelling gaming and video features to the table. So compelling, you may even be tempted to install the oft-bloated apps on your computer.


September 13, 2011
Mobile

Will Samsung’s New Mango Phones Be Its Last?

Gizmodo AU

As Samsung announces the Focus S and and Focus Flash Windows 7 Mango phones, there’s been some serious questions raised about the company’s long term Windows Phone 7 strategy.


September 5, 2011
Entertainment

Google’s Freddie Mercury Doodle Is A Kind Of Magic

Gizmodo AU

Google’s homepage doodles just keep getting better. Today’s Google is in honour of Freddie Mercury’s 65th Birthday, and it’s awesome.


August 1, 2011
Software

Adobe Ditches Flash For Adobe Edge

Far from Adobe surrendering to Apple and the good HTML5 fight, Adobe’s Edge web creator is simply a little shrug and acknowledgment that HTML5, CSS and JavaScript will get them on more mobile devices than Flash will.


July 27, 2011
Software

iSwifter Wants To Replace Flash With HTML5 On Your Mac

I’ve really started to hate Flash. It either slows down or breaks everything on my PC. So Mac users should be happy to hear that iSwifter, the app that lets iOS users play with Flash content, could soon be replacing Flash on their computers.


July 22, 2011
Software

Adobe Takes Back What It Said About Lion Disabling Flash Hardware Acceleration

Yesterday, Adobe wrote of its suspicions that OS X Lion has had Flash Player hardware acceleration disabled, which could be why Flash is proving to be a bit buggy. They’ve since retracted what they said, writing:


July 21, 2011
Software

Mac OS X Lion Might Disable Flash Hardware Acceleration

Flash on OSX Lion is a TAD BIT BUGGY right now. That’s not lost on Adobe, and they’ve posted a document of all known issues with 10.7. One issue they suspect but can’t prove: Apple disabled hardware acceleration with Flash.


May 19, 2011
Gadgets

The Best New Features In Android Honeycomb 3.1

Android Honeycomb 3.1′s a small but totally excellent update for Android tablets. A slightly smoother interface is packaged with two substantial features: improved flash performance (it’s really, really better!) and USB device compatibility (like a real computer!).


April 29, 2011
Software

Flash 10.2 Now Available For Android 3.0

A Flash 10.2 update is available for Android devices running Honeycomb, and Adobe is promising better video performance… when Android 3.1 comes out.