"Oh. Great. Another Flash Player. Why should I get this one?" This one you should actually pay attention to because there are two notable improvements. First is the fact there’s a native 64-bit version – and that’s great since many of us (yours truly included) are using 64-bit CPUs with 64-bit Windows these days. Second, it’s...

You’d think that all browsers would be the same concerning how well they render Flash content, but they’re not. Some do better than others. Below is my experience using Flash in modern web browsers, meaning out of the ones used, you’ll see which I found to be the best-performing. #3: Mozilla Firefox 6 Firefox’s biggest problem when it...

Don’t answer “no” before you read what I’ve got to share with you. You can create a decent Flash site in an hour or less – all you need is the free Wix website builder. I am NOT a fan of Flash sites, but I do have to admit that sometimes a Flash site rocks. Besides, many users like Flash sites and are eager to have one. What do you...

Unlike standard cookies which can easily be controlled and cleaned by your respective browser, cookies set and used by Flash are a different animal altogether. Because Flash works outside of your browser, it has the ability to store cookies (aka LSO’s) in various folders throughout your system which is the foundation of how the "super cookie" you...

This is a follow-up to this article where it was mentioned Adobe just released Flash Player 10.2. A 64-bit Windows experience sometimes isn’t the most pleasant thing because you periodically have to install things twice. Once for 32-bit, the other for 64-bit. With Flash Player, you must install it four times to be available in all your 32-bit and 64-bit...

I have two monitors in my desktop setup. Our illustrious leader, Dave, has 4 (yes, really). One of the absolutely mind-numbingly irritating things about Flash is that in a multi-monitor setup, if you set Flash to full screen on one, then click anywhere on another monitor, it auto-sizes back to regular size. For some time now people have been using hacked...

If you have multiple monitors and have ever tried to watch a Flash video in full screen on one while working on the other, you quickly find that it doesn’t work. As soon as you shift the focus to something other than the video, it reverts back to window mode. To prevent this from happening and keeping Flash in full screen mode, check out FlashHacker. This...

Although video hosting sites like YouTube and Vimeo allow you to host videos for free to embed on your web site or blog later, some still prefer the old fashioned way of self-hosting their videos on their self-hosted web sites such as with WordPress in combination with Viper’s Video Quicktags. The problem however is getting the FLV (FLash Video) files...

While Flash has always had its detractors, when Apple decided to intentionally exclude it from their iDevices some have speculated that Flash’s days may be numbered. Considering HTML 5 is right around the corner and offers the ability to deliver sound and video in an open format it is a logical conclusion to draw. However, many content developers have...

When you go to download/upgrade your Adobe Flash Player, which you would ordinarily download from http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/, this installs a download manager which some of you (myself included) find quite irritating to deal with. There is a way to download a standalone installer that does not use the download manager. It is available...

If you follow tech news at all, for the past month you have probably seen plenty of the Apple vs. Adobe Flash battle royale. While Apple is standing behind it’s claim of choosing exclude Flash on their iDevices for stability reasons, an innovative group of developers appear to have come up with a solution which runs Flash via JavaScript: Smokescreen. While...

As you can probably tell from my previous posts, I am not a big fan of Flash at all. That said, Flash, never the less, remains a “development” platform that website developers continue to use. So if you would like to build your own website based in Flash, then check out Wix. Much like WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editors, Wix provides...

Everybody knows that I love (sarcasm..) Flash. The current Flash player version is 10, however there is a 10.1 Beta 3 release out at the time of this writing, so I decided to give it a go to see how it performs. The first thing to note is how it’s installed. This is on the download page:In Windows, this is a five step process.Close all web browsers...

We’ve been told ever since we started using web browsers that it’s a good idea to clear out your cache and cookies periodically. This used to be a pain in the neck to get done, but with modern flavors of web browsers you can clear this information out easily. In IE8 and Firefox you can use the keystroke CTRL+SHIFT+DEL, then in IE8 choose to clear...

"You shouldn’t complain about something if it’s free." I don’t agree with that statement when it comes to web browsers, because is required software in order to use the web. Note that I said web and not internet. Traditional email requires no browser nor does instant messaging. Also bear in mind that it was messaging that existed...

For all its faults and overuse Flash does do a few things well: online video and web games. Microsoft’s version, Silverlight, seeks to offer an alternative or replace Flash for web developers. So on that note if you want to give Silverlight games a look, check out the Silverlight Competition page. For this competition, developers submitted games written...

Flash memory on a USB stick is easy enough to understand concerning the way it works. The memory is a type of EEPROM and non-volatile, which is the reason it doesn’t require a battery or external power source to retain the information stored on it. But if you ever asked the question, "Is there a difference between brands?", the answer is yes and...

Some people may be under the impression that if a web site loads slowly and/or causes your browser to crash that it might be your computer’s fault it happened. Not necessarily. There are several things that people interpret as a fault with their computer when in fact it isn’t. Things that are not your fault when problems happen loading web sites Web...

Flash is one of those things on the internet that’s been a source of irritation ever since it first appeared. From the perspective of a programmer, it’s bulky and difficult to "mold" into what you want it to do. From the perspective of the user, it’s "That thing that makes me wait to load just to view it, and when it does can...

For those wondering, I am running the 32-bit edition of Windows 7. I did this primarily for application compatibility above all else. The first response from those who are familiar with 64-bit environments are quick to say, "But you can run 32-bit apps in a 64-bit environment easily." That’s not always the case. Running certain 32-bit apps in...