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Adobe Releases Flash 10.2 Beta, Lets You Play 1080p Video With Zero CPU Input

December 1

It turns out there’s a new version of Flash in the works, and the latest comes from Adobe Labs as Flash 10.2. New fetatures include Stage Video API and GPU acceleration that have “seen laptops play smooth 1080p HD video with just over 0% CPU usage.” GPU acceleration is now available for Internet Explorer 9, as well as more APIs like native custom mouse cursors API and support for full screen playback with multiple monitors; that sort of stuff. Turns out the beta is only in 32-bit version, and I’m using 4GB of DDR3 RAM here and I have 64-bit, so that means I’ll be laying back on Flash 10.2 for a bit.

Via: Adobe Labs

Skyfire for iPhone allows for Flash videos to play (update: pulled!)

November 3

While Skyfire on Android has been available for a while (and transforming Flash videos to HTML5) the web browser has made its way to the iPhone, although instead of it being free, you’ll pay $3. Using server-side tricks on Skyfire’s servers, Flash video gets converted into HTML5 (something we know old Steve likes). Now get downloading before it’s ripped off the App Store.

Update: No it’s not what you think. Skyfire pulled the app, and not Apple. Heavy downloads of the app and high conversion rates of Flash to HTML5 took out Skyfire’s servers. But shouldn’t they have been prepared for this? This is the App Store, after all.

Adobe Bringing Flash 10.1 Windows Phone 7 And Even BlackBerry

October 25

This isn’t something you’d see in the news everyday, but hey, it’s happening and that means I have to write about it. Adobe has officially spoken of releasing Flash 10.1 to Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry, as well as Symbian (bleh!), MeeGo (meh) and of course HP webOS 2.0. While Android 2.2 already offers Flash 10.1 in full, soon it won’t be the only one, since obviously, you were just reading this post and found that out.

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Adobe shows off Flash 10.1 on the Motorola DROID X with FroYo

July 6

Motorola DROID X. FroYo and Flash. Adobe’s Sr. Technology Evangelist, Ted Patrick. The result: a YouTube video above showing a demo of a Flash game, along with other nice tidbits on the Motorola DROID X running a full version of Flash 10.1 on Android 2.2 FroYo. At the end of the vid Patrick mentions that FroYo & Flash will be headed to the DROID X in “late summer.” I suppose we have to believe, no?

Android 2.2 homescreen & Flash spotted on Nexus One

May 11

While I do have to say I am extremely excited about the possible Android 2.2 FroYo Google I/O (this month) release, one thing left us all in the dark: what does the whole thing even look like? Well, seemingly all Adobe employees are using FroYo builds and their devices, as Flash was demoed on a Nexus One with the new OS by none other than Adobe evangelist Ryan Stewart, on YouTube. hit the video after the break for the extremely smooth and speedy Flash running on the Nexus One.

Did I mention that the FroYo sculpture arrived at the Googleplex?

Adobe Flash and AIR seen running on a Google Tablet (prototype)

May 5

A pretty aware blogger at this year’s Web 2.0 Expo in SF (San Francisco; must I explain everything to you guys?) spotted a Google Tablet prototype. Meaning that at least a prototype exists and it runs Android (why of course it does!). You know were this is going, don’t you? Flash and Adobe AIR runs “seamlessy” on it. Yeah, even on a prototype. So when Max the blogger saw this, he was certain that every gadget blog in the history of the world would link to him so he gets a ton of pageviews and traffic, because he even has tons of videos demoing apps on it. Head to Max’s site to get the whole scoop over there.

Steve Jobs’s 1500-word letter on Flash, technically says he hates it

April 29

In a new 1500-word letter published by Steve Jobs, CEO of everything branded with the letter “i”, essentially what he’s saying is that Flash sucks like Blakcberry OS 5. Here’s a little quote from his not-so-little letter:

Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009. We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now. We don’t want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash.

You immediately get the idea that Steve hates Flash, thinks Flash will die, and gives another reason to webmasters to code with HTML5, and move to a more “open” Internet (a word he uses way too often). He has his points, and he has his pitfalls: Flash composes most of the Internet. See that ad right over there? It’s uses Flash, and so is every nice effect you see on a site (with exeception for Javascript, jQuery, and the others). So while his letter is a good read, it still leaves that annoying black hole: People love Flash (at least on Windows PCs anyways). The full text is at the source link, by the way.

Source: Apple

Adobe Flash Coming to Android 2.2. And It’ll Be Built-in

April 27

It’s been 10 months since Flash was demoed on a shady T-Mobile G1 handset. 10 months is 10 lifetimes in the mobile gadget world. But now, Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering at Google has brought us all hope in an interview with the New York Times. In the upcoming Android “FroYo” launch (it stands for frozen yogurt, sir) Andy revealed that Flash will be built-in into the OS, meaning that you’d get to see the Internet it was made to be seen, unlike your Apple counterpart (don’t call us Android fanboys, we’re not!). Although as usual on Earth, with great news comes bad news, and the bad news is that Rubin didn’t say when Android 2.2 was coming. But if you’re tech savvy your “sources” should tell you sometimes in May. Gadget bloggers FTW.