Technological Guide.

Flash for Phones announced by Adobe

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Adobe announced details on Flash 10.1 to a range of mobile phones and handled devices. Adobe’s Flash technology enables videos and interactive pages on the web. Only smartphone users are able to use the Flash Lite which can show subset of Flash Pages. Other phones are not able to show Flash content at all just like empty boxes in the web pages.

The following requirements are said by Anup Muraka, director for technology strategy and partner development at Adobe. Flash can be installed on Windows Mobile with OS version 6.5 and on Android with OS version 2.0. In general Flash requires at least a 500 MHz ARM11 processor. The Palm Pre, HTC Touch Pro2 and BlackBerry Bold all meet the requirement. Lower-tier devices also can avail Flash but with a subset of Flash capabilites only which is not full Flash 10 plugin.

You can read full details at pcmag news.

How to download online flash videos

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Online videos is a great choice of delivering information now-a-days. Especially education related information being presented in online videos format. These videos deliver great and valuable information using which we can learn new technology with ease. These videos will work so great like a lecturer. Some videos will be available for free and some may be commercial depending on the content of the educational material. Moreover the first requirement to view these educational videos is the lattest flash player along with the internet browser.

Everybody is fond of these online educational videos. Everybody needs and everybody wants to have these videos permanently to be stored on their pcs rather than searching for them online everytime they want to follow. But these flash videos cannot be downloaded as they are embedded into the flash object within the script of the webpage. Even we go through the scripting of the webpage, we can’t get the source url hidden for the education video file as it’ll be embedded within the flash object. I was wondering whether possibility is there to save these videos. Then my Proj. Mgr. Mr. Saravanan showed me the way to download the online flash videos using the lattest Real Player.

Just install the lattest version of Real Player. Then open the online video file and start watching. When you place the mouse over the video at any region, then at the top right corner you can get a drop down menu item saying “Download This Video” as shown below.

Upon clicking Download this video button, video will be downloaded to the Real Player videos directory which will be in User Documents depending on the windows version we use.

Once the download is finished, you can play either in the Real Player or your own choice of Video Player. Even you can right click on the downloaded file and choose “locate file on disk ” and can copy to your preferred location or media.