The concept of Flashy Status is a good one: make it more evident when your flash might fire when snapping a photo with your iPhone's camera.
It accomplishes this by illuminating the 'On' button on the Camera app's flash settings with green. You can either make it a solid green, or a more visible flashing green.
And while I suppose this is nice to have, there's one key feature missing from this tweak that keeps it from being really useful...
Last week, Adobe announced that it was going to be discontinuing its work on its mobile Flash player. The news wasn't that surprising, but it seemed to catch a lot of folks off-guard. There was even some confusion regarding the company's decision to end the project.
With that in mind, Adobe's Principal Product Manager for developer relations on the Flash platform, Mike Chambers, took to his blog yesterday. He felt that he needed to clear the air on why Adobe chose to nix the mobile Flash project...
With Adobe's recent announcement on the discontinuation of its mobile Flash plug-in, we are reminded of an open letter Steve Jobs wrote last year regarding the topic. The letter was in response to Adobe's public criticism of Apple for omitting the technology from its products.
In the public letter, Jobs lists several sensible reasons why Apple has decided not to include Flash support in its mobile products. The post explains these reasons clearly and thoroughly, and is a tribute to Jobs' remarkable writing abilities...
Apple has taken a lot of heat over the last four years due to the fact that its mobile products lack support for Adobe's Flash platform. Since the iPhone's introduction in 2007, not one of Apple's mobile devices has included the plug-in.
Flash compatibility is a feature that Android device makers have often touted as an advantage over the iPhone and iPad. Well, they might want to come up with something else to brag about, as ZDNet is reporting that Adobe is canning development of mobile Flash...
Last week, Adobe unveiled Flash Media Server 4.5 and Flash Access 3.0. With these products, content providers can finally stream Flash video to iOS on the fly without having to manually re-encode. While this doesn't necessarily equal Flash content on the iPhone and iPad, it does mean that providers have a faster and easier way to deliver video in a Flash wrapper to iDevices.
This doesn't mean that Flash-based games can run on iDevices, only video...
Skyfire, most famous for its mobile web browsers, has announced a new iOS app that promises to finally bring Flash to Apple's mobile devices.
In bringing functionality to the App Store that Apple has been adamant that it doesn't want, the Skyfire VideoQ app is available in just the United States and Canada for now, with both the iPad and iPhone app expected to be released internationally at a later date...
It seems like Flash is slowly going the way of the betamax, depending on who you ask. While I myself don't ever feel held back by the fact that my iPhone doesn't support the platform, there are some folks that still feel it's a downfall of the device.
Heck, it seems like "supports Flash" is in nearly every Android phone and tablet commercial. Well, for iPhone users that still feel like they're missing out on something, another Flash-compatible mobile browser has just entered the App Store...
I thought a lot about whether I should publish this or not and I came to the conclusion that it was worth throwing out there. Now you have to take what's to come with a grain of salt because it comes from an anonymous tipster that we had never heard of before. After doing a quick check on the IP address of the sender though, I can tell that our tipster is not too far from Cupertino, which I admit is not an indication of trustworthiness.
Our tipster - let's call him Mr T - referred to an article we wrote last week, in which DigiTimes claimed the next iPhone will sport a dual-LED camera flash. According to Mr T, the next iPhone will indeed sport 2 LEDs, except that one will be a LED camera flash, and the other one will be an LED indicator...
Google unveiled a new tool for developers today called Swiffy — a simple converter that takes .SWF Flash files and transforms them into iPhone-friendly HTML5 code. It's the latest experimental application to hit Google Labs, and while it works best with simple Flash animations, its results are rather impressive.
Anyone can use Swiffy by simply visiting swiffy.googlelabs.com. There you can upload an SWF file and quickly convert it into HTML5...
What's that? You want more information on a possible iPhone 5 sporting dual-LED camera flashes? Well then my friend, you're in luck.
The latest rumor claims to come out of the notoriously 'not entirely accurate' tech site DigiTimes. It points to the next version of Apple's hugely successful smartphone packing not just one, but two LED flashes to aid in the taking of super-bright photographs....
I remember a long time ago when I had my BlackBerry, one of the simple features I appreciated the most was the little LED flashing everytime I received a call, or if I had an unread text message. It was an unobtrusive way to tell me something was going on.
iOS 5 is bringing this idea to the iPhone 4. If you go to Settings > General > Accessibility, and turn LED Flash for Alerts ON, your iPhone camera flash will now flash when receiving a call or an alert...
We've talked about Adobe Flash on iDB quite a bit. The absence of the platform plugin in iOS products has been a hot button issue since the original iPhone was released. For those who have been living under a rock for the last few years, let me break it down for you.
Adobe's Flash is used in close to 80% of the top 100 most visited websites, so needless to say, it's pretty popular. Apple, the maker of some of the hottest portable electronics right now, has barred Flash from its mobile platform for several reasons. And now it looks like after years of watching home-grown tweaks bring Flash content to iOS devices, Adobe might finally have an answer of their own...