Jul 08

Flash Player investing in a 3D future, plans coming in October

Posted in: adobe, flash, Today's Chili

Man, Adobe is really teasing up Flash and 3D. Straight from the mouth (or, rather, keyboard) of product manager Thibault Imbert: “What kind of [3D] API? True textured z-buffered triangles ? GPU acceleration? Even better? What I can say is forget what you have seen before, it is going to be big.” Big talk in regards to a session at the company’s upcoming MAX 2010 conference entitled (aptly enough) “Flash Player 3D Future.” According to the description and some added details care of Imbert, expect discussion and demos of a renderer coming in a future version of Flash Player. We’d love to give you something more concrete, but looks like that might be awhile — the talk isn’t until October 27th.

Flash Player investing in a 3D future, plans coming in October originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 08

Video: Flash Running on the iPad

Posted in: flash, ipad, tablets, Today's Chili

IOS hacker Comex has managed to get Flash up and running on the iPad. That’s right, now you can watch YouTube, Hulu and all the adult video you want. What? You can do that already?

The hack is called Frash, and in its current form won’t play video. What it will do is let you play games and view Flash advertisements in all their annoying, animated glory.

To use Frash, you’ll need to have a jailbroken iPad (that is, an iPad hacked to give you file-system access). Once done, you should navigate to the Cydia app (the jailbreak community’s App Store) and add the insanelyi repository to the list. From there you can install Frash.

If you have ever used a Flash blocker in your browser, you already know how to use Frash. Instead of loading Flash content, Frash presents a big “F” in place of the animation. Click to load.

I haven’t tested this (because I like not having to tolerate Flash on my iPad), but the video of Frash in action shows it running at pretty much full speed. I have no idea if this hacked version of Flash will drain the iPad’s battery as fast as real Flash drains my MacBook’s battery, but it’s a pretty safe bet that it might. Also, beware of browser plugins: there’s no guarantee that Frash doesn’t contain the same security holes as its official brother.

Frash beta : Flash for iPad! [OSx86]

‘Frash’ Brings Adobe Flash to Apple iPad [PC World]

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Jul 07

How-to: Install Flash on your jailbroken iPad (for real)

Posted in: adobe, Apple, apple ipad, AppleIpad, diy, flash, hack, ios, ipad, jailbreak, Software, Today's Chili, video
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We just saw Flash 10.1 ported to the iPad demonstrated in video form by Comex, and now you can get in on the action too, as long as your iPad is jailbroken. It’s called Frash, and while the plugin is still pretty early and doesn’t do video playback yet, you can definitely play games and other animations right now, and we’re told video support is forthcoming. Okay, so let’s try this out, shall we? It’s not point-and-click simple, but it’s not that hard, either. Full instructions after the break.

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Jul 06

Latest EVO 4G root uses Flash Lite exploit to do its deed

Posted in: adobe, Android, flash, Google, hack, HTC, Sprint, Today's Chili

The cat-and-mouse struggle between Android users, carriers, and manufacturers to gain, patch, and re-gain root is one that shows no signs of slowing down, but the EVO 4G’s latest recommended root method is particularly creative. Made necessary after the most recent over-the-air firmware update patched the old way of doing it, you’ve now got to visit a page on Adobe’s site for tweaking local Flash settings, at which point a script works some magic and apparently takes advantage of a vulnerability in the EVO’s Flash Lite build. Of course, that’s just one of twelve harrowing steps in the whole process — but regardless, it’s not often we’re thanking our lucky stars for a security issue.

Latest EVO 4G root uses Flash Lite exploit to do its deed originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 06

Strobe Pro Adds Motion-Stopping Flash to iPhone 4

Posted in: flash, Phones, photography, Today's Chili

Just last week I wished for a pulsing strobe-light application for the iPhone 4’s LED lamp: “I’m hoping that somebody makes a strobing photo and video app that allows for some cool, stuttering image effects,” I wrote, breathless and giddy with the possibilities of making people look like herky-jerky robots as they moved in the dark.

This week, my incessant prayers have been answered by a 15-year-old boy. That boy is John H. Meyer, a developer who has made Strobe Pro, a soon-to-be-available app which will fire the iPhone’s rear-facing flash in staccato bursts. See it in action in this video:

Pretty slick stuff, you’ll probably agree. You might also agree that Meyer has an impressively deep voice for a teenager.

The real utility in this app will probably show itself in combination with a proper camera. As you will have noticed in the video, the iPhone’s camera has trouble keeping up with the flashing lights, but if you were to fire a burst of flashes as a subject moves through the dark in front of the open shutter of your SLR, you’d get a sequence of images not unlike a nocturnal version of Eadweard Muybridge’s famous motion-stopping photos.

Strobe Pro is awaiting App-store approval.

Real Strobe Light for iPhone 4 [YouTube. Thanks, John!]




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Jul 04

Flash 10.1 ported to iPad, burninates the countryside (video)

Posted in: Apple, apple ipad, AppleIpad, AppleIphone, flash, hack, Hacks, ios, ipad, iPhone, mod, mods, Today's Chili, video

Take it with a grain of salt, but it’s looking like some prayers have been answered on this Fourth of July — Flash (or is that “Frash”?) is running on this man’s iPad, cleverly ported from Android. The YouTube video claims that by using a compatibility layer, the Android runtime can play Flash content natively in Safari, but only on iPad so far — iPhone 3GS support is planned soon, as is iOS 4, and there’s a call for developers to move the project forward at GitHub. We’ve no way of determining its legitimacy at this moment, but it sure seems like Comex (he of the iPad “Spirit” jailbreak) has outdone himself this time, and hey, where there’s smoke, there’s fire, right? See Strongbad answer emails on iOS, right after the break.

Update: It appears Comex has indeed been working on this project for some time; a second blurry video after the break (running on iPhone) shows us what it used to look like.

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Jun 30

Google: HTML5 is good, Flash is the ‘best platform’ for YouTube today, WebM is the future

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We can’t say there’s a ton of surprises here, but, if you’re curious to know exactly where Google stands on the whole HTML5 / Flash debate, the company has now laid out its position in a post on its official YouTube API Blog. The short of it is that while Google says it has been “excited” about HTML5 for some time now and that the <video> tag is a “big step forward for open standards,” it says that Flash will continue to play a “critical role in video distribution,” and that it remains the “best platform” for YouTube’s requirements today. Of course, Google also didn’t let slip the opportunity to once again talk up the recently-announced WebM video standard, which it says is the open video format the web has been waiting for. It isn’t saying, however, that it will replace Flash for video, and notes that Adobe itself has committed to supporting VP8, the video codec for WebM. Hit up the link below to read the company’s complete argument for yourself.

Google: HTML5 is good, Flash is the ‘best platform’ for YouTube today, WebM is the future originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 29

Hulu Plus preview arrives in iTunes App Store, Flash be damned

Posted in: Apple, flash, hulu, ipad, ipod touch, IpodTouch, Today's Chili

The free Hulu Plus app just hit the iTunes App store, kids, with the promise of 720p streaming over WiFi or 3G to iOS devices including the iPad, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, and 3rd generation iPod touch. They’re calling it a “limited preview” release that will ultimately require a $10 per month subscription on top of the commercials you’re forced to watch. Oh, and it’s still restricted to US-only viewership. Well, at least the Flash barrier has been removed. Huzzah?

[Thanks, MT H.]

Hulu Plus preview arrives in iTunes App Store, Flash be damned originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 24

SD cards branded with an upper-case ‘I’ are faster, yo

Posted in: flash, sd, storage, Today's Chili

Since they’re theoretically capable of 300 megabyte per second transfer rates, we knew SDXC cards wouldn’t stay slow forever. How will we separate wheat from chaff when faster models do appear, though? You’re looking at it. This week, the SD Association unveiled the UHS-I specification for SDXC and SDHC cards capable of transferring data at up to 104 megabytes per second — reportedly fast enough to record HD videos in real time. Why the association chose the phrasing “up to” is a little iffy, as we thought the point of such specifications was quality control, but considering how many Class 4 and Class 6 SD cards we’ve tossed that didn’t match up to spec, we suppose we’ll make do with a ballpark estimate… until the inevitable UHS-II makes the rounds. PR after the break.

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Jun 23

SanDisk’s 1GB WORM SD card stores evidence longer than your prison sentence (video)

Posted in: flash, Japan, sd, storage, Today's Chili, video

You can think of SanDisk’s latest WORM SD card like a mini time capsule… for criminals. As the name implies, these write-once-read-many cards are tamperproof slivers of flash storage that can only be written to once by an SD WORM-compatible device like, say, those security cameras, witness voice recorders, and photo cameras used by the police. SanDisk claims that the data will still be readable after 100 years, long after you and your crimes have been forgotten. Why the fuss after not hearing about SanDisk’s SD WORM ambitions since 2008? Well, Sandisk just announced that Japan’s police force will use the SanDisk SD WORM card “as the storage media of choice for tamper-proof forensic image archiving.” We suspect that the Yakuza will be getting right on that “tamper-proof” claim just as soon as they finish viewing the video embedded after the break.

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SanDisk’s 1GB WORM SD card stores evidence longer than your prison sentence (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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