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Flash did turn out to be Adobe’s Achilles’ Heel

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Adobe’s decision to halt the development of Flash Player on the Mobile came as a blow to the company’s 2+ year long commitment. They almost went to war with Apple to protect it. And now this. Adobe’s shift in focus from Flash to HTML5 for Mobile Browsers was taken keeping most developers out of focus. It has left them stranded.

What happens now? Adobe says despite discontinuing development they will continue to release bugs and security updates. That’s all for the show. They will drop support for all future device upgrades. This is a rash decision and disrupts the developer ecosystem who were dependent on Flash for mobile integration.

Adobe tried hard implementing Flash into mobiles but performance reports showed poor results. It almost led to diverging of the mobile development, which either for-sided flash or not. This was yet again, not in anyone’s favor. Flash, as Jobs said, was made for the PC-Era. It couldn’t  adapt to the newer standards. It altogether needed a replacement and a gradual shift but continuous upgrades to same old thing wouldn’t do the trick. Adobe failed to understand it and the reason too is clear, it was and is (On Desktops) its cash cow.

They decide to channelize their advancements onto HTML5, the newest open standard for web development. As the market changed, media consumption habits altered and as everything moved to faster performance – Adobe slogged. The Cost was high. Today, the entire brand identity is at stake. Obviously, by letting mobile phones go away, it’s already running a race to lose. Who would want to develop applications for Flash despite its great features if it offers no reliability. Who would want to waste their hardwork?

This would shake any developer’s faith in Flash on ANY platform. How can you suddenly stop supporting a widely distributed client for the newer devices with one blog post? The last two decades, when closed standards were treated with respect, Flash rose to power. Now it’s time that industry moves to Open Standards like HTML5, CSS and Javascript which offer more reliability and if not provide features like Flash but at least turn out to viable alternatives (for now).

There are several reasons why Flash failed.

  • It didn’t garner support from Apple. They hold a lot of Mobile Market Share. A lot of.
  • It really wasn’t that good. Performance sucked and it didn’t go with the concept of newer devices.
  • It had a premium tag for its developer tools. Premium tag for making something while you could run the same trick with Open Standards turned out a price too high to pay for Adobe.
With Flash going, the industry that suffers the most is Gaming. Zynga built an entire platform on Flash, it is now going to have a tough time. Even the newer standards don’t support something that advanced as of yet. What’s the only option left to developers is to start focusing on making native apps for the Mobile OS’s. This step will of course be readily be welcomed by phone companies who desperately want to expand their App Stores.
Conclusion is that this move is going to cost Adobe everything. ABI Research data suggests that HTML5 adoption on mobile devices will be 2.1 Billion in 2016. Flash could have been there but now it will not.

Transfer Huge files over internet for free with superb speed!

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If you’ve faced a lot of problems sending over huge presentation files to your friends over the internet to your friends on the other side of the globe, or sharing holiday videos with your friends then you’ve come to the right place.

WeTransfer is smart service that makes it uploading and sharing files, as easy as peeling a banana. The benefits of this service is that you can upload files with sizes upto 2GB! Along with that, WeTransfer’s servers have a Virus filter which keeps the infected files away so its 100% safe.

The upload speed is just too awesome and i could upload 60Mb of Data within 5 Minutes with a internet speed of  3 Mbps. The interface is neat. The service is completely free and it supports multiple files, so you don’t need to upload a single file everytime, just select all of them and hit “transfer”.

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You don’t need to sign up either. Just select files, type in your email id and type in your friends email id’s (upto 20 friends at a time) and then once your done with uploading you will get a confirmation mail about the upload and all your friends will be emailed a link to download the files and you could feed in a optional message if you wanted.

If was thinking real hard, as to how the service makes money, and found out that these guys make money by serving branded backgrounds on their service pages? Check out WeTransfer and there you will observe that the background changes, somewhat like Bing and everytime the background changes you see the link on bottom left also changes.  That’s how this works. Atlast, someone in the world did come out with a better way of advertising!

Download Videos and Extract Audio’s at One Click From YouTube – YouTubeFisher

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There are many tools around the web for YouTube (King of Video sharing sites) like YouTube downloader, etc .. But Today we are going to see a simple yet powerful tool for YouTube users where you can download your YouTube videos plus you can also Extract the Audio track quickly and easily.

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YouTubeFisher is useful tool which is not just a YouTube video downloader but with a special feature of extracting and saving your audio track from any YouTube video. If you don’t want to download the entire video where you can download only the audio track using YouTubeFisher.

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How to Use YouTubeFisher ?

1. Download YouTubeFisher (19kb)

2. Open the app and Type the YouTube video url. (Eg :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNE3l2LPiEY)

3. You have 2 options – Download Video and Download Audio -

4. YouTubeFisher retrieves the video or audio and saves it in the format you choose -

5. You can save video file as Mp4, flv, 3gp or audio track from YouTube link.

YouTubeFisher – Homepage | Download

Just try once and leave your comments (-:

Does FaceBook delete your photo instantly after you do so?

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The answer to above’s question is answered by a research done where Images were uploaded on famous social networking websites like Facebook, Hi5, Bebo, LiveJournal, MySpace and many others and Each of the image url was noted. Then Later All of the images were deleted. 

It was Found that many website’s did not delete the photographs even after 30 days, while some did instantly.

“For our experiment, we uploaded a test image onto 16 chosen sites with default permissions, then noted the URL of the uploaded image. Every site served the test image given knowledge of its URL except for Windows Lives Spaces, whose photo servers required session cookies (a refreshing congratulations to Microsoft for beating the competition in security). We ran our initial study for 30 days, and posted the results below. A dismal 7 of the 16 sites failed to revoke photos after 30 days“

Here are the Results of the research -

Did not remove photographs even after 30 days - Facebook, Hi5, Bebo, LiveJournal, MySpace

Removed Photographs in 30 days - Blogger, Friendster,  Tagged, Picasa

Websites which removed photographs instantly -  Orkut, Windows Live Spaces, Photobucket & Flickr

Users need to be very careful while uploading images on The social networking websites as You never know that your image, even after you delete, may be still present you may even fall into some kind of trouble!

Thanks OnlyGizmos, Mashable and  Light Blue TouchPaper