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Flash 10.2 Arrives On Android Tablets And Phones

Android 2.2 and higher: Flash 10.2 has landed in official form, giving performance enhancements and better soft keyboard support to phones, and a pretty helpful first Flash offering to Android 3.0 tablets.

March 8, 2011
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Flash 10.3 Beta Integrates Settings Into Your Local Control Panel

Windows/Mac/Linux: Up until now, clearing out your Flash cache or otherwise tweaking its settings required visiting a special web link. With the beta of 10.3, changing your privacy, storage or other settings is now integrated into your system’s Control Panel/System Settings, which is quite handy.

February 9, 2011
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Flash 10.2 Allows Full Screen On Separate Monitors, Manages 1080p Video

Windows/Mac/Linux: Flash 10.2 is out, and we almost regret to inform you that you can now watch YouTube and all manner of Flash video in full screen on a second monitor while clicking elsewhere. There goes your “working lunch”.

January 14, 2011
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Alternative Flash Auto-Updater Updates Flash In The Background

Windows: Like many programs, Flash updates itself fairly often with new security patches, but updating is kind of a pain. Alternative Flash Player Auto-Updater does it all in the background, without your involvement, so Flash actually stays up to date and secure.

December 16, 2010
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FlashVideoReplacer Replaces Flash Videos With Alternatives

Firefox: Everyone’s trying to avoid Flash these days, what with its CPU-hogging and battery draining. If you need to watch videos on sites like YouTube or Vimeo, though, you can replace them with lower-power Quicktime and WMV plugins with FlashVideoReplacer.

December 9, 2010
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DivX Plug-In Improves Playback For Some Flash Videos

Windows/Mac: DivX, the well-established maker of video codecs, offers a free web plug-in that decodes Flash video with graphics hardware acceleration. In some cases, especially on netbooks or slower machines, it may do the job better than Adobe’s own tools.

December 4, 2010
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How To Get The Flash 10.2 Beta Working In Google Chrome

Adobe just released a beta of the newest Flash player, complete with lower CPU usage and full screen dual-monitor playback. Chrome, though, still uses its built-in, stable version of Flash. Here’s how to get the beta goodies in Chrome.

December 2, 2010
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Chrome Now Sandboxes Flash For More Secure Browsing

Adobe Flash Player is now sandboxed in the latest dev channel release of Google Chrome, bringing a huge security benefit to Chrome users. Here’s why:

December 1, 2010
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Adobe Flash 10.2 Beta, Reduces CPU Usage During Video Playback

Windows, Mac OS X and Linux: A beta version of Adobe Flash Player 10.2 is now available for download. The latest version adds preliminary support for Stage Video, a technology aimed to reduce heavy CPU usage during video playback. The beta is a free download — available right now. Adobe Flash Player 10.2 Beta [Adobe via TUAW]

November 24, 2010
Design

Aviary HTML5 Editor Fixes Photos Without Flash

If you’re working without Flash, either out of hardware necessity (iPads, hot-running MacBooks) or computational fidelity, you’ll dig Aviary’s new HTML5-based editor. It’s a suite that has most of what you need to fix up photos in a Flash-less browser.

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