Microsoft Silverlight 4 beta already out
Microsoft has released the first beta of Silverlight 4.
The software giant is aiming to release the final edition sometime next year.
Microsoft Silverlight technology is designed as an alternative to Adobe Flash.
AJAX and HTML5 have also become potential competitors on the web. On the desktop front, Adobe [...]
Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0 released
Adobe has released new versions of both Flash Player and AIR.
Adobe Flash Player is in version 10.1 now. Adobe Air is in version 2.0 now.
The company said that both of these releases are currently in beta testing phase and are available in 32bit versions for all [...]
ClickToFlash enables you to view H.264 videos on YouTube
ClickToFlash is a plug-in for Apple Safari web browser on Mac OS X.
It is similar in nature to Flashblock for Firefox and Camino but has some added advantages.
It allows you to surf the web blocking Flash content which can be loaded on demand.
One of [...]
Adobe has a message for Apple on Flash for iPhone page!
Adobe has probably updated their page that is shown to users who are trying to install Adobe Flash Player on their iPhone.
Apple does not allow Flash content to run on the iPhone and iPod Touch. And Adobe cannot develop a player unless Apple [...]
Adobe Flash would soon allow developers to export native iPhone applications!
Adobe Systems has announced that the next version of Adobe Flash would allow developers to export their code into native applications for the Apple iPhone platform.
The company is still keep on developing a version of Flash Player for the Apple iPhone platform but [...]
Adobe Flash to get the full edition on most smartphone platforms
Adobe has announced that they are collaborating Research In Motion, Windows Mobile, Palm and Google to provide support for full Adobe Flash capabilities in their smartphone platforms.
The obvious player missing from the list is Apple iPhone which does not support Flash at all.
Apple [...]
Mozilla Firefox to make sure users are on latest version of Adobe Flash
Mozilla developers recently announced that the latest version of Firefox web browsers would check the existing version of Adobe Flash Player installed on the user’s machine.
If it is not the latest version, users would be directed to update to the latest [...]
Apple updates Java on Mac but ships older Flash Player with Snow Leopard
Apple has issued a patch for users of Mac OS X. This patch updates the Java for the Mac OS X Leopard users.
The company is however making news for delivering an older insecure version of Adobe Flash Player with their Snow Leopard [...]
Google updates Gmail viewers for PowerPoint and Tiff files
Google has revealed that they are now using new viewers for PowerPoint presentations and TIFF format files.
They are now using the same viewer that is used to present Adobe Acrobat PDF files.
This viewer does not require the user to have Adobe Flash Player installed on [...]
Adobe Flash most popular for watching online videos
Google YouTube uses Adobe Flash for streaming videos online.
This alone could be responsible for the popularity of this format for online video watching.
ComScore has released their report which states that Adobe Flash technology powers eighty-one per cent of worldwide online videos.
The Flash plugin is installed on [...]
