📅 July 4, 2010

Frash: Flash For iPhone [video]

Frash is a port of the Adobe Flash runtime for Android to the iPhone, using a compatibility layer, by comex. Frash can currently run most Flash programs natively in the MobileSafari browser. Frash

About a month ago, we showed you an early preview of Flash running on iPhone. Frash is a port of the Adobe Flash runtime for Android to the iPhone, using a compatibility layer, by comex. Frash can currently run most Flash programs natively in the MobileSafari browser. Frash currently only runs on the iPad, but support for other devices (3GS+ only due to technical restrictions) is planned, as well as support for iOS 4.

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📅 May 16, 2010

Steve Jobs Tells Gawker’s Ryan Tate About “Freedom From Porn”

Last night Ryan was ticked off by Apple’s iPad commercial and sent an email to Steve Jobs.

Last night Ryan was ticked off by Apple’s iPad commercial and sent an email to Steve Jobs. Ryan says  I didn’t plan to pick a fight with Steve Jobs last night. It just sort of happened: An iPad advertisement ticked me off; I sent the Apple CEO an angry email; he told me about “freedom from porn.”

Read emails after the break…

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📅 February 20, 2010

Do You Even Know Why You Want Flash And Multitasking On Your iPhone?

In the last 6 or so months every iDevice user was and is complaining about the lack of flash and multitasking. The big bang was produced when the missing plugin lego piece appeared on the New York Times page while Steve Jobs was demoing the iPad last month. But do you know why you want Flash and multitasking on your iDevice, or its just easier to throw the stone and bitch an whine all day?

In the last 6 or so months every iDevice user was and is complaining about the lack of flash and multitasking. The big bang was produced when the missing plugin lego piece appeared on the New York Times page while Steve Jobs was demoing the iPad last month. But do you know why you want Flash and multitasking on your iDevice, or its just easier to throw the stone and bitch an whine all day?

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📅 January 29, 2010

Official iPad Demo Video Shows NYTimes.com With Flash

Does the NYTimes has a special iPad version of the site that switches HTML5 out when it detects Apple mobile products?

If you watched Apple’s keynote, or followed the news since, you know that when Steve browsed the NYTimes.com page, something was missing there. Oh yeah… Flash. In the official Apple demo video of the iPad, while browsing the NYTimes.com page, everything is displaying and working like it would do on a Flash enabled browser.

Does the NYTimes has a special iPad version of the site that switches HTML5 out when it detects Apple mobile products? Well, no! The iPhone still displays the page with the missing Flash plugin icon.

[via 9to5mac]
📅 January 29, 2010

Adobe To Bring 2 Million Flash Devs To The iPhone, iPod Touch AND iPad

The Flash Platform already provides developers with the ability to create applications without making assumptions about screen resolution and pixel density.

We told you that , this year, Adobe will bring 2 million Flash developers to the iPhone platform thanks to their upcoming Flash Pro CS5 which will include Packager for iPhone. So if they got the iPhone and iTouch figured out, what about the iPad?

The Flash Platform already provides developers with the ability to create applications without making assumptions about screen resolution and pixel density.Christian Cantrell has posted an in-depth article on the Adobe Developer Connection, Authoring For Multiple Screen Sizes, that details best practices in creating applications that run on multiple screens. If you want to prepare applications today that will work great on the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, follow the guidelines from this article today.

If you want to build an app for the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad using Flash, you can send a mail at iphone-prerelease@adobe.com. Adobe is looking for developers and designers who have a specific app in mind to be submitted to the iTunes App Store within the next two months.