Gnash
GNU’s free and open source SWF player:
Gnash is based on GameSWF, and supports most SWF v7 features and some SWF v8 and v9.
The current version is 10. So is there an alternative to Flash Player? Sure. Is there an alternative that’s in any way useful, good, or relevant to modern Flash content? No.
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Judge Orders iPhone Investigation Documents Unsealed
Bloomberg:
Search warrant documents in an investigation of the possible theft
of an Apple Inc. iPhone prototype will be made public, a
California judge ruled.
Judge Clifford V. Cretan in Redwood City today ruled against the
San Mateo County District Attorney’s office, which argued that
unsealing the documents will reveal identities of potential
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Glenn Beck Has Nazi Tourette’s
Fantastic Daily Show piece from Lewis Black.
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Mark Pilgrim’s All-in-One Almost-Alphabetical No-Bullshit Guide to Detecting Everything
Appendix A of his amazing Dive Into HTML5.
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Proposed Apple Response to Adobe
This whole thing is a comedy gold mine.
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Joe Posnanski on the iPad
Joe Posnanski:
I’m not saying you want an ipad or need one (or any of the
upcoming tablets) — I don’t get commission. I’m just saying,
what’s the big deal? It’s a computer and television and radio
and newspaper and book and magazine and game console and Internet
the size of a [...]
The ‘®’ Stands for ‘Open’
Good snark from Adam Wilcox:
Dear Adobe, when the name of your “open” product contains two uses of ® then it isn’t open.
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Open Source and Free Development Tools for Flash
Contra Jim Whimpey’s aforelinked refutation of Adobe’s “Choice” campaign, it is not the case that developers can only create Flash software using Adobe’s Flash Professional IDE. This page lists the free and open source ones. There also exist non-free third-party developer tools for Flash.
I still say Whimpey’s conclusion stands — it’s not the tools that [...]
HTML5 Video in iBooks
Just use the <video> tag.
Update: In a comment, <a href="http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/2010/05/html5-video-works-on-ibooks-on-ipad.html?showComment=1273857829950#c719252387057914945″>Joe Clark points out that though it works in iBooks, using it is non-compliant with the ePub spec.
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NEWS: LG on the look for the UK’s best home entertainment setup
Top prizes for people who make the effort to entertain this summer
LG has launched its Home Entertainment Heroes competition in which it hopes to uncover the nation’s best host. With Wimbledon and the World Cup just around the corner, it’s the perfect time to get your gaff set up to play host to the best [...]
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