The “Break it Down” Blog

HTC Hero Review Uncovers Prominent Performance Issues

Engadget Mobile put up their (excellent) review of the HTC Hero recently and I got a lot of information out of that review that I hadn’t gotten anywhere else. More specifically the following highlights: Hardware – The hardware in the HTC Hero was rumored at one point to be improved upon the HTC Magic, that form [...]

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Internet Explorer, ActiveX, Macromedia Captivate and Flash

Ok this is one of those “good lord I hate Microsoft” moments that seems to occur far too often. Here’s the situation: I’m working on recording and export Flash movies from Macromedia Captivate (now Adobe Captivate) and placing them in a webpage to view them. The problem is, every time I view the page in Internet [...]

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Flash 9 for Linux Early 2007

Over on the Adobe Flash/Linux blog it looks like more definitive times have been given for the final stable release: Early 2007. The team mentioned they are planning a Beta before that for later 2006 I assume which will be welcome after they are done fixing all the known issues with the plugin (which was the [...]

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Flash 9 coming to Linux soon

Interesting post a few days old over on the Adobe blogs covering the Flash 9 porting work that is taking place to finally deliver the updated Flash platform to Linux. Mike Melanson provides some details on the original choices made for the Flash port outlined here: General graphics: X11 GUI elements (dialog boxes): GTK Audio I/O: ALSA Camera input: [...]

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