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Several users have reported that the iPhone 5 camera flash does not work properly; specifically, the flash goes on right before or after the photo is taken, thus flash has no effect on pictures taken and they subsequently come out black or very dark. In other words, the flash is not synchronized with the camera [...]

As of November 9th, 2011, Adobe has killed Flash Player for mobile devices. This includes Flash Player for Android, Playbook as well as Smart TVs. Adobe has said they will continue to support Flash for Mac and PC and that Flash will remain a desktop platform. They have also stated that HTML5 is the best [...]

We know it’s hard to keep up with all of the breaking technology news. Unless you have considerable time to scour the feeds on a regular – even hourly – basis, it can be extremely difficult to keep abreast of important developments with the potential to have profound effects on day to day device usage. [...]

Apple products are arguably the best mobile electronics on the market. However, one problem that many users have with the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch is that they don’t support Flash content. There is a long list of things that cannot be run without Flash, many online games, banner adds, cross platform applications, some online [...]

Apple has released Security Update 2010-007 for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), which includes many of the security refinements included in the simultaneously released Mac OS X 10.6.5. These include fixes for AFP server, Flash Player, Apache, AppKit, MySQL, networking and more. A full list of fixes can be found here. The new release is [...]

The fact that Apple’s new MacBook Air (Late 2010) uses flash-based storage, and Adobe’s statement that its CS4 and CS5 Creative Suites (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc) “cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices” has sparked some concern from new users that the packages may no install [...]

Apple has released Safari 5.0.2 for Mac OS X 10.5.x and 10.6.x (Leopard and Snow Leopard), and Safari 4.0.2 for Mac OS X 10.5.x (Tiger). Release notes are as follows: Fixes an issue that could prevent users from submitting web forms Fixes an issue that could cause web content to display incorrectly when viewing a [...]

Some users have reported an issue in which QuickTime content, including many MP3s, will not play in Safari 5.0.1. Users experiencing this issue often report receiving a QuickTime playback box with a question mark inside, which indicates playback failure. Possible fix In some cases, this issue is caused by problematic plug-ins. Quit Safari, then navigate [...]

Some users have reported an issue in which Safari 5.0 renders some web pages with blurry fonts. Apple Discussion poster Peter Whysall writes: “Since installing Safari 5, I am seeing certain websites where the body text appears to have broken sub-pixel antialiasing. To confuse matters further, this problem can show in text on one part [...]

Some users have reported slow or lagging scrolling in Safari 5.0. In some cases, it appears that this issue is caused by the installation of Flash 10.1, which includes several security fixes but may degrade performance in some regards. Fix The fix for this issue is generally to downgrade Flash to the previous iteration (10.0), [...]