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Tiny MacBook Air SSDs from Toshiba now available to everyone

Toshiba has announced that the small outline form-factor SSD drives that debuted in Apple's latest MacBook Air models last month are now available as a retail product. Dubbed the Blade X-gale SSD series, the drives offer a potent...

Skyfire Comes Back To The App Store… But Now Selling In Limited Batches

Last week, the Skyfire browser made headlines for two separate “firsts” on the iOS platform. First up, Skyfire finally did what Adobe couldn’t and brought Flash to iOS, albeit non-natively. Instead, the Skyfire browser converts Flash videos to HTML5 on their own servers, then pumps...

Skyfire browser back in the App Store, but in limited quantities

This just in: the Skyfire browser, which was released earlier this week and then quickly pulled when the company's servers were overwhelmed, is being released back into the App Store. But before you do what I did and rush out to purchase it, note that...

Video How-To: Uninstall Flash in Mac OS X

In light of the news that having Flash on your system could drastically affect battery life for notebooks, here's a video showing you how to remove it from OS X if it's already installed. It takes a little more digging than you might think.

Flash: Sucking the Life Out of Your MacBook Air Battery

Steve Jobs has repeatedly insisted that Flash is a resource-hog. A review of the 11-inch MacBook Air conducted by Ars Technica shows he's quite right. The new Air shows a drop in battery life with Flash installed, at a cost of around two hours of use.

Uninstall Flash for Mac OS X in Seven Easy Steps [How To]

Here’s a simple how to that will lead you and your computer to an internet without Flash just like on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. I think most of you won’t miss it, but if you do you can reinstall it. I’ll have to...

Having Flash installed on your MacBook can reduce battery runtime by 33%

As if Adobe Flash didn't have enough going against it already. Now it appears that, according to tests done by Ars Technica, having Flash installed on your laptop can reduce your battery runtime by a third. Ars Technica was running battery tests on the...

Is Adobe Flash Killing MacBook Air Battery Life?

Ars Technica stumbled upon an interesting tidbit while reviewing their 11-inch MacBook Air.  They found a compelling reason for Apple to not install Adobe Flash on the MacBook Air and it wasn’t just because they wanted to make sure users always had the latest version...

Skyfire pulls iPhone app from App Store due to overloaded servers

Just five hours into availability, high demand on Skyfire servers forced them to pull the Skyfire iOS app from the App Store. The company says its working to increase server capacity and will have a new group of apps available "soon." The $US2.99 app...

SkyFire Flash Ready Browser for iPhone Sells Out Fast

The much-anticipated Skyfire Browser finally came to iOS today albeit briefly before vanishing from the App store. If you haven’t heard about it Skyfire is a new app that would allow users to watch Flash video on their iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch by converting...

Skyfire Brings Flash to iPhone, But Is it Worth a Purchase? [Updated]

You can now get the much-hyped Skyfire browser for your iPhone, which brings the ability to watch Flash content. You won't get that for free, though, as the price is $2.99 at launch, which is described as an "early adopter price." So is it worth it?

Skyfire For iPhone Now Available, Reviewed [Update: Removed]

It was supposed to come out tomorrow, but SkyFire Web Browser is already available in the App Store at $2.99. Featuring SkyFire’s technology that allows you to view flash videos on the iPhone through a server-side conversion to HTML5, SkyFire for iPhone also features Facebook and Twitter sharing in-app, a Facebook “Quickview” menu to check...