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Adobe abandons Linux

February 22nd, 2012 · Comments Off

There was a time when I hoped that Adobe would port more of their applications to the Linux desktop. Those hopes have been dashed. Adobe has announced their roadmap for Adobe Flash and AIR and Linux is barely on it. Adobe Flash Player 11.2 which is targeted for release in the first quarter of 2012 [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Applications · Business · Desktop · Infrastructure · Linux · Multimedia · Operating System

Flash is dead. Long live HTML5.

November 9th, 2011 · Comments Off

Adobe’s love affair with its Flash format has come to an end. Oh sure, Adobe said they were just killing development on mobile browser Flash in favor of HTML5, but seriously, do you think, that they’ll keep working on Flash on the desktop for much longer? If you do, I have a nice, lightly-used bridge [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Business · Development · Internet · Network · Standards · Web browser

Google removing H.264 from Chrome does nothing to HMTL5

January 13th, 2011 · Comments Off

In some technology circles, you’d think Google was proposing throwing cats into a wood-chipper from the way some people are reacting to Google’s announcement that it was focusing its support on its own open VP8/WebM and Theora video codecs, and dropping support for H.264. This is not a step back for openness; any kind of [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · Business · Development · Entertainment · Google · Internet · Legal · Microsoft · Open Source · Standards · Video · Web browser

iPhone vs. Android: Five points of difference

June 29th, 2010 · Comments Off

Wow, the way people are arguing about iPhones vs. Android phones I’m having flash-backs to the grand old tech. flame wars of Macs vs. PCs; OS/2 vs. Windows; or vi vs. EMACS. Now, I don’t have a dog in this fight. I’ve used both iPhones and Android phones, specifically the HTC EVO and Motorola Droid, [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Amazon · Business · Infrastructure · Linux · Mac OS X · Open Source · Operating System · SmartPhone

Patching the Patch: Trouble with the new Mac OS X Snow Leopard update

June 16th, 2010 · Comments Off

I was very pleased to see Apple’s new Mac OS X Snow Leopard patch this morning. It fixed numerous minor, but annoying problems with my Mac Mini and my wife’s MacBook Pro. It also cleaned up numerous security problems. That’s the good news. The bad news is it also introduced a serious security bug by [...]

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Tags: Adobe · Apple · Applications · Internet · Mac OS X · Multimedia · Operating System