RIM on Adobe Abandoning Mobile Flash

Adobe announced today that they're stopping development of their mobile Flash player as soon as they release Flash Player 11.1 for Android and BlackBerry Playbook. Both of which are mobile devices, but don't run the mobile flash player.

Hopefully an OS update isn't required for those devices to get the new version of Flash Player, otherwise the majority of Android users are screwed. The PlayBook is currently running Flash 10.2.

A few hours later RIM posted a trademark-filled statement on their blog:

Earlier today, Adobe announced plans to stop investing in Flash® for mobile browsing, and focus more efforts on HTML5. As an Adobe source code licensee, we will continue to work on and release our own implementations, and are looking forward to including Flash 11.1 for the BlackBerry PlayBook.

The strategic direction announced by Adobe today further validates RIM’s decision to launch the BlackBerry PlayBook with a full-powered and uncompromised desktop class browser supporting both Flash and HTML5. We are pleased that Adobe will focus its efforts on next generation Flash-based apps delivered via AIR and BlackBerry AppWorld as well as the great opportunities that HTML5 presents for our developers as we discussed at DevCon Americas.

In essence they're saying:

Adobe just blindsided us with that announcement and even though we pay them an outrageous licensing fee for access to their source code, we don't have a copy of this mythical Flash 11.1 to test on the PlayBook. Luckily we support HTML 5, because we're probably going to be dicked-over by Adobe again in the near future.

I wonder how long until RIM changes direction again and begins to downplay the PlayBook's Flash support?

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Posted in BlackBerry, Development, Software, Technology on November 9th, 2011 at 12:11pm

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Rename an item in iTunes using the keyboard

If you're a Mac user, press Command+Return while any item in a list view is selected to toggle editing of an item's name.

I find this to be much easier and faster than using the Info window or the delightful "Click to select. Wait a moment and then click again to toggle editing, but don't click too soon or else it'll be a double-click and you'll start to play the item."

If you're a Windows user I assume you press F2 to rename an item, but I've never used iTunes on Windows.

Posted in Apple, Software, Technology, UI/UX on September 21st, 2011 at 11:09am

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Unhide the Library folder in OS X 10.7 Lion

If you're running one of the 10.7 Lion Developer previews, you've probably noticed that your ~/Library folder is hidden. You can navigate to it by pressing CMD+SHIFT+G and opening the Go to Folder window and entering ~/Library or you can use chflags command and remove the hidden flag.

Open a new Terminal window and run the following command:

chflags nohidden ~/Library

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Posted in Apple, Software, Technology on April 6th, 2011 at 11:04am

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Regenerate SpringBoard on a jailbroken iPhone

Useful if you're installing packages from the command line and want the homescreen icons to be visible.
Install UIKit Tools (apt-get install uikittools) and from the command line run sudo -u mobile uicache

If sudo isn't installed, install that with apt-get install sudo or

su mobile
uicache

And while you're on the command line, make sure to change the password for the root and mobile users.

  1. SSH to your iPhone
  2. su -
  3. Enter the root password, alpine by default.
  4. passwd
  5. Enter your new root password
  6. passwd mobile
  7. Enter the new password for the mobile user

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Posted in iOS, iPhone, Software, Technology on August 2nd, 2010 at 09:08am

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