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Adobe Flash Player Download Warning: Malware Disguised

This is a warning to all those that are getting flash player downloads; Adobe fake flash player downloads could leave you with serious consequences, especially leaving you with malicious payloads.

You need to know that Malware is being disguised as a Flash Player download, Adobe responding to malware versions of “flash player” downloads that are being posted on community sites like twitter for example, have posted the following caveat on their site.

There has been coverage from the security community of a nasty worm on many popular social networking sites that is using social engineering lures to get you the user to install a piece of malware, and according to reports the worm posts comments on these such sites that includes links to a fake site. If this link is clicked and followed, users will be told that they need to update their Flash Player. The installer, posted on a malicious site, of course installs malware instead of Flash Player.

WARNING: DO NOT download Flash Player from any other site unless it is adobe.com, and we mean any piece of software such as Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Reader etc. Twitter’s security people are working on a fix right now.

Read the full rundown on Information Week

Adobe’s Google and Yahoo agreement: Search engines will see Adobe Flash-created content

This is breaking news and very good news at that, Adobe has new software that will make flash-created content more noticeable by search engines like Yahoo and Google. At the moment it seems that search engines like Google and Yahoo and other Web-search tools cannot easily recognize pages that have Flash-created images.

Many times we have searched the web to buy something and we end up seeing graphics built with Adobe Systems’ Flash software, have fun finding the exact product with a search engine, though. Because it seems Google and other Web-search tools can’t. Well Adobe has announced that they are taking steps to solve those problems, Adobe are providing Google and Yahoo with software that will makes these pages inside flash-powered sites show up much higher in search results, it will infuse those results with a much better result leading you to what you are really looking for much more easier and of course with more relevant details.

Adobe’s moves include providing Flash software that is more attractive to Web site developers and of course to persuade more consumers to visit its customers’ sites, Adobe’s Google and Yahoo agreement will be very competitive and is surely a smack in the face for Microsoft, who indeed makes web software that competes with Adobe’s. Just so you know flash sites often contain ads, sell products, promotes movies and much more, so the most important thing that should happen for the creators is for sites to show up where consumers are clicking.

So with Adobe providing Google and Yahoo with this all new software code and a very special version of its flash player, one that can expose the what-used-to-be hidden flash-content now seems a thing of the past.

Read the uncloaking ‘invisible’ Flash Web content over at CNET

Nokia N96 will be possibly getting xenon flash: True or False

According to Phones Review who got their information from another source they are saying that the super smartphone Nokia N96 will possibly getting xenon flash, maybe this is true but then again maybe it is false, we will have to wait and see.

Obviously this is not official but we are going on what we have heard, a Nokia Rep apparently has said “the delays are due to them adding (at the last minute) a Xenon flash, ala N82! Finally, an all in one phone with almost nothing (bar BlackBerry) missing, from what I can tell of the marketing stuff he left for the N82, Xenon flashes seem to be Nokia’s next big push from now on, which is fine by me.”

So when you think about it that the Nokia N82 has it, you must wonder that surely the Nokia N96 should have xenon flash.

We will keep you updated.

Source - Phones Review

Door Game is predictably irrational: Flash game is causing a stir on internet

Not too sure if any of you have heard of the little flash game called “Door Game” but I will tell you about it anyway. This game is causing a massive stir on the internet as we speak at the moment and this is why you should know about it.

The object of the game is to basically score points by clicking open doors and then clicking on the goodies (Rewards) which are behind them. The strategy of the game all depends on you and you must choose between three doors and pick the best one that holds the best reward, but be careful because switching between doors has its price, oh yes you have 50 allotted clicks to open the new door.

The best thing to do is play the Door Game which is predictably irrational; this is a flash game with a difference. Please do let us know if you have played this game and what you think of it?

Play - The Door Game

Vintage Flash Camera Clock by Debra Dresler

This Vintage Flash Camera Clock was handmade by US artist Debra Dresler.

This clock probably looks better than it functions, with that added battery-operated clock the only working part, with some existing camera parts amended to work with it.

This Vintage Flash Camera Clock retails for $165

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Apple iPhone SDK info slipped: No flash but many applications coming soon

Only being one day ahead of the Apple iPhone Software Roadmap press event Steve Jobs talked to Apple shareholders and as usual not much information coming out when it comes to the release of the official Apple iPhone SDK.

But and a big but some information did slip out about the SDK and that was there will be a lot of apps out there this summer.

It is of course not clear if Steve Jobs statement of the iPhone SDK will be released early and expects developers to get their fingers out, and come to think of it if the iPhone SDK won’t hit the shelves until the summer.

He was questioned about the Apple iPhone’s potential for supporting Adobe Flash he just threw it out and of course any hopes of embedded video viewing on the iPhone. We do know that Jobs does not want a scaled down version of the mobile phone having flash, Lite to mark the full web experience of the iPhone.

Apple on the other hand wants Flash and nothing but real Flash on the iPhone, but we know that the full version of flash runs to slow, come on people pull your fingers out.

Source via Phones Review