Adobe has officially decided to discontinue development of future versions of Flash for mobile devices. The news comes about a year and a half after Steve Jobs wrote an open letter called “Thoughts on Flash.” In the letter Jobs gave his thoughts on the use of Flash in mobile devices and explained why Apple would…
MoreThanks to the Skyfire app, there is finally a decent way to watch Flash videos on the iPad. Skyfire is a web browser for the iPad and iPhone, that will allow users to unlock content trapped behind those error messages with question marks and blue Legos by transcoding the Flash content into HTML5 on Skyfire’s…
MoreApple has approved a new app that will allow iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch users to view flash videos on their devices. A app called Skyfire will soon bring flash video content to iOS devices. The app is a web browser built on top of Safari that transcodes flash videos to HTML5 on the fly….
MoreThe Cloud Browse app has been updated for the iPad. Cloud Browse allows you to watch flash videos on your iOS device by using a full desktop browser running remotely and being streamed to the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The remote browser have access to higher bandwidth, more memory and faster processor than that…
MoreA well known iPhone hacker named Comex, recently demonstrated flash content running on a jailbroken iPad. He has managed doing this by porting Android Flash runtime to the iPad. Comex is calling the port of the Android Flash runtime for the iPhone as Frash. Frash will only run flash games, it will not play flash…
MoreA mobile technology company called Smokescreen has come up with a way to put Flash on the iPad and iPhone. Smokescreen is a new open-source JavaScript project that is essentially a Flash player written in JavaScript. Right now, it is only working on ads with basic animations. It’s slower than the Flash plugin and is…
MoreThe game is written in HTML5, instead of Flash, making the application playable on the iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.
MoreApple has posted a letter from Steve Jobs where he describes the flash situation between Apple and Adobe. It is evident that after reading the letter there are some hard feelings between the two companies. I’m sure most iPhone and iPad users would like to have flash but not at any cost. If flash causes…
MoreApple has complied a list of iPad ready sites and put it on the Apple website. These are sites that do not use Adode Flash. They support HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Safari. There are no links on Apples page so I have a list of them here. It appears the Apple and Adode battle will…
MoreDespite the lack of flash there are some great options for watching videos on the iPad. More video sites are becoming iPad friendly and the list will only continue to grow. Here are ten of the best video sites for the iPad. This list does not require any apps to be installed, they can all…
MoreThere have been several people ask me if there are any ways to get around the iPad not supporting Flash. If you have been follow the Apple/Adobe saga, then you know it is more likely than the iPad will get a camera flash before is supports Adobe Flash. Of course, you can watch video on YouTube and…
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