Archive for April 29th, 2010

Adobe releases Flash Player "Gala" preview with H.264 video hardware decoding for Mac OS X 10.6.3

Filed under: Software Apple and Adobe may be at each others' throats , but that won't stop the software from going out. Adobe has released "Gala," a Flash Player preview that introduces support for H.264 video hardware decoding on Mac OS X 10.6.3. While Flash Player H.264 video hardware decoding has been available on Windows for some time, Apple has only recently made available to developers APIs that support H.264 hardware video decoding in the browser, with the release of Mac OS X 10.6.3. View more

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Apple files official app icon trademarks

Filed under: Apple Apple has filed trademark motions on a number of its official app icons, and none of them are new (though the trademarks for the iDisk app and the MobileMe gallery app threw me a bit, not having MobileMe myself). Apple appears to be shoring up its official iPad and iPhone app icon library, and trademarking all of the official icons that it's put together. Each icon is marked not only by description ( the Camera app icon is described as "rounded corners depicting a stylized camera lens"), but by its colors as well, which is...

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