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Well look at that — Adobe’s now officially serving up Flash Player 10.1 on its download pages. If you’re anything like us, you’ve been running 10.1 since it hit Release Candidate status a couple months ago, but if you’ve held off the upgrade brings some much-needed hardware acceleration to the mix, as well as other assorted performance enhancements and improvements. We’re curious to see if the various issues with Broadcom Crystal HD netbooks have been resolved in this final version, and Mac users will have to wait for the “Gala” update to see any hardware-powered boost on their systems, but it’s nice to finally see Adobe ship this thing. Let us know how it goes in comments, yeah?

Update: Sorry folks — contrary to reports, it doesn’t look like the Gala hardware acceleration code was secretly included in the OS X build, as we just tried it on a new MacBook Pro and the graphics didn’t switch over to the discrete chip. What’s more, the Gala project page is still alive and kicking with a release date expected “following the release of Flash Player 10.1.” We’ll just have to be patient, we suppose.

[Thanks, Neal and Sam]

Adobe Flash Player 10.1 now officially available for download originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Well, it looks like Adobe isn’t wasting much time in fixing that “critical” Flash vulnerability that could allow remote hijacking of a user’s computer, but it’s a slightly different story when it comes to patching Adobe Acrobat and Reader. According to Adobe, the Flash fix will be rolled out by tomorrow at the latest, but it says the fix for Reader and Acrobat won’t be available until June 29th. Somewhat curiously, Adobe says it had considered rushing out a “one-off 0-day” fix for Reader and Acrobat as soon as possible, but says that would have caused too much “churn and patch management overhead on our users” considering there’s already a regular quarterly update scheduled for July 13th. So, instead, Adobe has decided to push that update up to June 29th and simply include the fix for the vulnerability with it. In the meantime? Stay frosty, we guess.

Adobe promises fix for Flash vulnerability by tomorrow, Reader and Acrobat fix on June 29th originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Jun 2010 16:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Apple revises iOS rules on outside advertisers, cuts out Google, Adobe by implication

Apple revises iOS rules on outside advertisers, cuts out Google, Adobe by implication originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When you complain about Apple’s products lacking Flash support, we figure you’re talking about games and video, but web developers have to make a living too, right? That’s why Greystripe and Adobe are working together to bring ads to iDevices all around, with an intriguing technology that might one day enable the real reasons we want Flash as well. Like the Smokescreen demo we saw last week, Greystripe can reportedly transcode the banned content to HTML5 on the fly, and it’s apparently impressive enough that Adobe’s signed on to create an interactive, crossplatform ad solution (also on Android and Java devices) priced and marketed specifically to rival Apple’s own. With Apple’s distinguished record as keeper of the walled garden, we’ll see how well that goes, but we’re definitely interested in other possibilities for the company’s code. Full press release after the break.

Continue reading Adobe and Greystripe partner for ads that convert Flash to HTML5

Adobe and Greystripe partner for ads that convert Flash to HTML5 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When Adobe said Flash gives you the full web experience, it meant it. Part and parcel of the web, as we all know, is the good old hacking community, which has been “actively exploiting” a vulnerability in Flash Player 10.0.45.2 (and earlier versions) and Adobe Acrobat and Reader 9.x to overtake people’s machines and do hacky stuff with them. This so-called flaw also causes crashes, but that’s probably not what’s worrying you right now. Adobe says the 10.1 Release Candidate for Flash Player looks to be unaffected, while versions 8.x of Acrobat and Reader are confirmed safe. To remedy the trouble, the company advises moving to the RC for Flash, and deleting authplay.dll to keep your Acrobat from performing undesirable gymnastics. Oh boy, Steve’s gonna have a field day with this one.

Adobe’s Flash and Acrobat have ‘critical’ vulnerability, may allow remote hijacking originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 05 Jun 2010 17:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sound familiar? That’s right: Adobe’s looking to move some of the same technologies it developed for Flash-to-iPhone app compilation over to Android, where we imagine the company will be meeting a much more receptive audience. AIR — part of the Flash portfolio of products — now has a native Android app feature in beta, letting you pump out .apk files from code written in ActionScript 3. Adobe’s targeting a release “by the second half” of the year, so this shouldn’t take too long to go gold… not to say there aren’t perfectly good ways of pumping out Android apps in the meantime, but this should make it a little less painful for seasoned Flash guys to port their stuff.

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Adobe AIR getting native Android app compilation originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Jun 2010 16:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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