As the smack down between Apple and Adobe continues, Virgin America has dumped Flash from its website because of the lack of iPhone support. Virgin's new website, which launched Monday, replaces Flash with HTML to give...
Virgin America dumps Flash over lack of iPhone support
As the smack down between Apple and Adobe continues, Virgin America has dumped Flash from its website because of the lack of iPhone support. Virgin's new website, which launched Monday, replaces Flash with HTML to give...
Browser security: “The main thing is not to install Flash!”
Filed under: Odds and ends, Internet
You may have noticed that I'm not a huge fan of Flash. My feelings pre-date the iPhone/iPad debate about whether or not Flash should be included on those devices. Even back when I was using Windows and...Found Footage: Photoshop v1.0 recreated on iPhone
Filed under: Multimedia, iPhone, Graphic Design
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Photoshop, Adobe recently recreated Photoshop 1.0 -- on the iPhone. Porting the venerable application over to the iPhone reportedly took Adobe a mere two weeks of development. The application is not available...
Why Is Steve Jobs Flash-obsessed?
Accounts of his anti-Adobe rants raise questions about what really motivates them
I have no doubt that Steve Jobs is at least partially sincere when he complains to his staff and the gossipy editors at the Wall Street Journal about Flash, the multimedia platform Apple pointedly refuses to support on the iPhone, the iPod touch and...
Steve Jobs visits Wall Street Journal, trashes Flash again
Filed under: Internet Tools, Steve Jobs, iPad
Valleywag reports that during a recent iPad-promoting visit to the offices of the Wall Street Journal, Steve Jobs spent a significant amount of time trash-talking Adobe Flash yet again, and doing...Steve Jobs to WSJ: ditch “dying” Flash technology
On a recent trip to New York to woo newspaper publishers with demonstrations of the iPad, Steve Jobs met with staff of the Wall Street Journal. During the demo, editors asked about the iPad's lack of Flash support, to which Jobs replied, "We don't spend a lot of energy on old...
Acrobat, Adobe Reader & Flash updated for critical security fixes
Filed under: Software, Security
In response to two critical vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Adobe Reader 9.3, yesterday Adobe released the 9.3.1 update for both applications; users of the older 8.x versions can update to 8.2.1 to resolve the security issues. One of...Adobe Creative Suite 5 Details Revealed
I was only just talking about how long its been since Adobe released a new major update to its flagship Creative Suite product with an imaging professional friend, and now there’s a sign that we won’t have to wait much longer for said update to arrive. AppleInsider got an exclusive look at some of the...
Adobe plugs AIR for Flash-based “unified” mobile development
Adobe unveiled the first public preview of the mobile version of its AIR 2.0 runtime at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona,...
Macworld 2010: TypeDNA
Filed under: Macworld, Graphic Design
On the last day of Macworld, I caught up with the guys from TypeDNA to take a look at what I soon realized was going to be a revolutionary bit of software magic for designers of any...
Steve Jobs Labels Adobe’s Flash a Dying Technology, But Is It?