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Adobe Flash 10.1 Beta Brings Hardware Acceleration To Web Videos

11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux: Adobe is offering up a “prerelease” of its inescapable Flash software, adding in GPU acceleration for H.264 video in Windows, multitouch support and bug fixes. Anyone with Adobe AIR apps can also grab a 2.0 prerelease of that platform. More »

Flash Arriving By Year-End On Every Smartphone Except iPhones

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Adobe has promised betas of a mobile-ready Flash 10.1 for Windows Mobile and Palm Pre late this year, and early next year for Android, Symbian and BlackBerry phones, as well as NVIDIA-powered netbooks. The only hold-out? The iPhone, of course. More »

Web Video Downloader Grabs Video And Flash Games

11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Firefox ony: We’ve all come across a video or flash game we’d like to save for posterity or at least for future goofing off. Web Video Downloader makes it easy to snag video and games off the web. More »

Tour de France Streaming Live On SBS Site

2:58PM Angus Kidman | Only yesterday we were asking what TV might be sensibly streamed in Australia, and now we’ve got one answer: the annual Tour de France cycling race. More »

Flash Arriving On Almost Every Phone OS In October

11:00PM Kevin Purdy | Adobe stated during a recent earnings announcment that a beta of Flash Mobile 10 will be released in October, optimised for Android, Symbian, Palm Web OS and Windows Mobile phones. Despite one conspicuous absence, that’s somewhat good news for many. More »

BetterPrivacy Prevents Tracking By Flash, Other “Super-Cookies”

9:30PM Kevin Purdy | Firefox: Even if you regularly clean out your cookies or use a privacy-plus extension like Stealther, Flash videos and other objects leave all kinds of traces on your machine. Until they meet BetterPrivacy, that is. More »

Save The Last Flash Movie You Watched

4:00AM The How-To Geek | Linux only: Reader Blake writes in with his method for quickly making a copy of the last Flash video you watched in your browser. More »

VideoCacheView Finds Flash Videos In Your Browser Cache

4:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | Browser cache locating utility VideoCacheView searches through your browser cache for already-watched videos—so you can copy them to your videos folder. Using the utility is simple—just launch the application and wait while it searches through the cache for each of your browsers (even Chrome!), and then either play the file or save it for later. Using the play function requires a media player that can play Flash files, or you can convert the file to a more compatible format using any number of tools. VideoCacheView is a free download from NirSoft, works on Windows only. While there are any number of ways to download a YouTube video (like Lifehacker’s own Better YouTube extension), this utility could come in handy for saving videos from other sites. VideoCacheView via [Shell Extension City] More »

Adobe And Apple Working To Put Flash On iPhone—Someday

11:10PM Kevin Purdy | Adobe’s CEO told a World Economic Forum crowd that Apple and his company are working to bring Flash to the iPhone. Unanswered is when that happens, and in what form. The Boy Genius Report blog takes a largely positive tack on Shantanu Narayen’s remarks, but wisely wonders whether Flash will arrive as a standard in-browser function for mobile Safari, or as a stand-alone app made for browsing specific sites. PCWorld offers a more downbeat take, noting the technical hurdles—processor, memory, and Apple’s needs for access rights restrictions—and a sense of “boardroom wrangling.” Most would imagine that Flash on the iPhone is a matter of when, not if—especially if Flash succeeds in pushing its Flash Lite platform onto Windows Mobile and Android phones. But let’s hear your take—do you enjoy having the web stripped of flashing, shiny doodads while you’re mobile, or does a lack of Flash cripple your browsing life? Tell us in the comments. Adobe’s Narayen Says Flash on IPhone Is a Challenge (Update2) [Bloomberg News] More »

Which Mobile Devices Are Getting Flash-Happy?

10:30AM Angus Kidman | We noted earlier today that Flash is coming to Windows Mobile and Android, but for other platforms, the reality is a little more complicated. As I report in an article for APC, while Adobe maintains that work continues with Apple on building a Flash implementation for the iPhone, the BlackBerry has been put in the too-hard basket because of the “code it in Java” requirement. At least there’s a technical reason in that case. I can’t help suspecting Apple’s holdout is because a flash-enabled iPhone would open up a world of applications which it couldn’t control through the AppStore. Adobe explains: Why there’s no Flash on iPhone or BlackBerry [APC] More »