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Today is the day Adobe finally killed Flash development for mobile devices. Flash is used to play your videos, games, and other popular things on the web. Every since the iPhone came out, one of the problems was that it didn't support Flash. This was a big deal since a lot of websites were build with Flash and were unable to be viewed within Safari. Apple was mainly trying to push everyone to start using HTML5 and other formats since they were safer. So finally Adobe has moved on to other things.
ZDNet had this to say:
"Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app stores. We will no longer adapt Flash Player for mobile devices to new browser, OS version or device configurations. Some of our source code licensees may opt to continue working on and releasing their own implementations. We will continue to support the current Android and PlayBook configurations with critical bug fixes and security updates."
Flash will still be updated with bug fixes and security updates for time to time, however that is the only attention it is going to get. So for all of those other devices out there Advertised with being able to support Flash, that's the last we'll see of you.
Click here to download iTunes 10.5.1 from Apple.
Or open iTunes and click on "Check for Updates".
NOTE: iTunes Match is currently only available in the United States.
Apple just rolled out iTunes 10.5.1 which includes iTunes Match, Apple's cloud music locker that was supposed to come out weeks ago. iTunes Match will cost $24.99 per year, and will allow you to access your entire music library from Apple's iCloud servers.
iTunes Match matches your songs to iTunes' 20 million song library. For songs iTunes doesn't have, you can upload them to iCloud servers for playback from other devices.
While iCloud doesn't technically "stream" music to you, it lets you download your music to any device on demand. You can "unpin" music you've downloaded at any time if you want to free up space. It all works within the iTunes client for Mac, and within the iTunes Store app for iPhone.
Here's the press release from Apple:
With iTunes Match, even songs you’ve imported from CDs can be stored in iCloud. And you can play them on any iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or PC — whenever you want and wherever you are, without syncing. iTunes Match is just $24.99 a year.
Here’s how it works: iTunes determines which songs in your collection are available in the iTunes Store. Any music with a match is automatically added to iCloud for you to listen to anytime, on any device. Since there are more than 20 million songs in the iTunes Store, chances are, your music is already in iCloud. And for the few songs that aren’t, iTunes has to upload only what it can’t match. Which is much faster than starting from scratch. Once your music is in iCloud, you can stream and store it to any of your devices. Even better, all the music iTunes matches plays back from iCloud at 256-Kbps AAC DRM-free quality — even if your original copy was of lower quality.
FINALLY RELEASED!!!!! OUT NOW!!!!!! iOS 5.0.1 UNTETHERED!!!!!
The Chronic-Dev Team has been working hard on the untethered iOS 5.0.1 Jailbreak and today it was finally released for non-A5 iDevices. So this means it will work on every device except for the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2. The Jailbreak for the A5 devices is under development and should be released very soon. For now, if you have a tethered Jailbreak on your iDevice you can simply install this package to untether it! No need to plug in to your computer, unless you haven't Jailbroken yet! If you still need to Jailbreak, follow to the next video for a complete tutorial of the iOS 5.0.1 UNTETHERED JAILBREAK!
To Untether your device, refresh Cydia and download 'Corona 5.0.1 Untether' free of charge!
9to5 Mac is featuring a picture today showing what is said to be two different iPad 3 home buttons, one in black and one in white. Both are shown next to two iPad 2 home buttons in the same colour for comparison purposes. If the truth be told, you?d be hard pushed to actually spot the difference! It is, apparently, smaller inside, which could mean that Apple wants to use up every available bit of space inside the next iPad, but for what, we don?t know yet! As 9to5 Mac notes, however, the existence of the buttons, if they are indeed genuine, points to the iPad 3 being released in both black and white versions, as with the iPad 2. Also, the fact that actual physical home screen buttons are now in existence and being photographed would give further credence to therecent rumour that the iPad 3 will be released as early as February, and that it may well already be in production. And of course, the pictures also dispel the rumour that the next iPad will not even have a home button!
EA Mobile has today launched a re-imagined version of one the most popular games of all time, Tetris. The new version gives fans access to new features that give them revolutionary ways to play on their iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Along with classic fan favourites such as Marathon Mode, several new modes have been added, including Galaxy Mode, where players get to use game-changing power ups to dig down and shatter their scores, the Origin-powered Tetris Log, which delivers new gameplay challenges, and a Tetris Rank facility, which tracks players’ lifetime “lines cleared” and assigns an overall rank. The app also now comes complete with the opportunity to subscribe to the T-Club, the only Tetris fan club to give members exclusive access to new mobile challenges and content.
“The Tetris App for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch was specifically designed to let players experience a re-imagined Tetris universe including the traditional Tetris gameplay they know and love," said Bernard Kim, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for EA™ Interactive. "The innovative new features are sure to bring hours of frenzied fun for both newcomers and seasoned Tetris fans.”
“The One Touch feature in this new Tetris game is ground-breaking and it’s the type of inventiveness we have been waiting for. It’s the difference between driving a stick shift and an automatic,” said Henk Rogers, Managing Director of The Tetris Company. “We are always looking for new ways for our fans to play Tetris and this new mobile version makes a revolutionary addition to the Tetris family of games.” Click here to download the game for an introductory price of $0.99: App Store - TETRIS?
As children everybody used to love art class. And do you remember how much fun it was to make collages? It didn?t matter that you couldn?t draw at all, you could be the most creative one in the class, all you needed was scissors, glue, colored pencils, and you could have beaten Da Vinci himself. Well, the new Mixel app for iPad will remind you of such happy times. Mixel is a very creative app that completely reinvents collage so that everyone will want to do one. Everything in Mixel can be shared and remixed, making it the word?s first social art app. It?s all an adult could would want: it?s fun, not messy, and blends in the possibilities of socializing. What more could you want?
Mixel, who was created in New York?s Dogpatch Labs, is extremely easy to use. For starters you begin by cropping down some source images and adding them to the working canvas. You have the option of resizing them and positioning them as you like best. And voila, you?re done. You can now proceed to share your latest art accomplishment on Facebook, Twiter or Tumblr. You can also share your creation with other users of the app. Mixel users can follow one another and receive feeds.
What?s more any Mixel user can ?re-invent? your collage, adding their own twist to your vision, but don?t worry you won?t loose your original. Both version will be saved and displayed so people can witness the evolution of the artwork. Another feature allows you to add text to your ?Mixels?. Mixel was designed by Scott Ostler, co-founder of the image-sharing site Dump.fm and Khoi Vinh, a former design director for the NYTimes.com and can be downloaded for free from the App Store.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced today that its recently released universal iOS app Batman: Arkham City Lockdown has been updated with some new features, including iCloud support, which enables the player to play the game on multiple iOS devices, switching between them via iCloud. Also included in the update is one new free Batman skin, 70s Batman, which is free to download with the update, and players will also be able to purchase a new Batman skin, Earth One Batman. Both skins have all new stats, and bring with them new challenges as well as extending the game experience for the fans.
Developed by NetherRealm Studios (Mortal Kombat), Batman: Arkham City Lockdown features several of Gotham City?s most fiendish villains, including The Joker, Two-Face and Solomon Grundy, as well as the iOS-exclusive Deathstroke. The death-defying action sees players engaging in one-on-one combat across a variety of atmospheric and suitably gritty Arkham City locations.
If you happen to be an experienced software engineer, and in need of a job, maybe you should start contemplating the possibility of a career path at Apple. Very recently, the company created a job posting calling for all interested software engineers to join the iWork team. The applicant, will be integrated in the iWork team on the front and/or back end of scalable web applications. The jobs were listed just a day after Apple announced the iCloud.com beta service, which incorporates Calendar, Mail and Contacts via an web app. These feats were first intended for Apple?s MobileMe Service, which has been dropped. iCloud is also rumored to have a working section of iWork apps, but nothing has been posed yet.
iWork.com offers space for hosting of documents coming from iWork applications, but this will soon be integrated into iCloud. iWork also allows users to view and share documents, but it won?t let them add any changes (editing). The jobs posted, advertised free spots for the iWork team, but it is not clear yet whether this applies to the existing iWork domain and web service or if it applies to the iCloud part of the iWork. But given the fact that the jobs were announced right after the iCloud.com news came out, it is likely the engineering jobs will go to the iCloud team instead.
Apple may be going into the Google Docs and Microsoft Office 265 direction, if it will keep up the plans of expanding iWork beyond the current, as the job posting asks for experience in ?developing web application frameworks, building and maintain large-scale distributed systems and building web application user interfaces.? Are you brushing your CV yet?
It’s time to get a little excited. Evernote just came out with Skitch for iPad. Skitch has already been available on Mac, but from now on Apple lovers will be able to enjoy it as well. Skitch combines the easiest ways to share quick image captures with a friendly and accessible interface. The original release dated back from 2007 but somehow it never managed to pull out of the beta pre-release state. The Skitch platform was acquired by Evernote in August 2011 and finally got going in version 1.0.
Skitch is super fun and is a intuitive way of moving your ideas and projects forward using fewer words. With Skitch you can draw on just about everything you lay your eyes on. It can be a new or old photo, a webpage, a screenshot, a map or a blank canvas. Then, because we live in the social age, you can share your work with friends or colleagues. Then save all your progress and finished art to Evernote.
Skitch lets you work on existing images from your camera roll or on pictures taken with the camera of your iPad. Also, Skitch enjoys a smart system that will identify recently-made screenshots, which will be automatically be saved to your camera roll. The app also has its own browser. You can now mark up the webpages you want to come back to, in order to highlight your objects of interests.
Skitch offers a variety of tolls that are designed for speed : Finger, Pencil, Arrows, Text, Shapes, Crop, Color and thickness and Thrash.
Interestingly, the Skitch team used to be under the Plasq banner, the publisher of Comic Life – that jumped from Mac to iPad back in May of this year.
