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Major UX fail in latest flash update, Adobe doing an excellent job to piss everyone off.

No wonder Steve Jobs can't stand flash. I'm with him on that one, and it seriously I think it has had it's day. Flash development seems to be like IE6, determined to hang on till the bitter, bitter end.

Another nail in it's coffin started last week with the latest version of Adobe's flash player coming bundled with McAfee. A well known bloatware anti virus product.

If I missed the checkbox (apparently there was one), you can damn well know that millions will definitely miss it. Possibly due to the way firefox and other browsers install the update, you may not even see a checkbox like me. And that's Adobe's total lack of respect and integrity for it's customers, it chases profits by bundling junk surreptitiously with it's not very flavour of the month plugin. It's bad enough you have to have Adob'e download manager installed as well...just to get the damn Flash plugin.

Is someone from Microsoft involved with Adobe? 8D

Sarcasam aside, in the last week alone the twitterverse has coughed up a ton of angry tweets at Adobe and not one response has been forthcoming.

http://twitter.com/#!/search/adobe%20mcafee

That's just one search on twitter alone, but many angry news and blog sites are lashing out, even Adobe's forums are on fire, and Adobe's response??

Check their twitter account: http://twitter.com/adobe and you'll see Adobe seem to be high on themselves, performing self masturbatory smiley's and congratulations while blissfully ignoring a lot of angry customers. The Adobe juice they are drinking, yes, it must be that good.

Obviously denial working well for Adobe, and my advice, keep doing what your doing Adobe...because your doing an exemplary job of fucking things up better than anyone could have hoped for.

Congratulations Adobe! And very much looking forward to the flash funeral!

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UX on this is amazing. Samsung Galaxy Tablet Video Demo. Rly Want!

via crunchgear.com

An awesome video, showing the Google powered Samsung Galaxy tablet that lets you drag and drop, via USB, no iTunes bloat, mp3's and videos your way, in your formats, with smaller 7" footprint. Sold!

The one downer on this Android beauty is that the price point is likely to be around $500 AUD .Estimates put this at $200-$400 USD, but given how much of a royal shafting the UK And Australia (and the rest of Europe) get for pricing, I can't see this being anything less than $499AUD : (

Well we can hope. Until we get to play with this, best to not believe too much hype, but time will tell.

One things for sure is that devices like this and the iPad are definitely changing the users experience of the web dramatically, and that to me is only a good thing for customers everywhere.

More info can be found on the tablet at: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/02/samsung-galaxy-tab-preview/

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Books vs. E-books... Finish him!

via techcrunch.com

It really is now war for this media market (and shortly TV programs) especially with the launch of the Android http://cruzreader.com/

Questions is are we going to have an ebook reader/table mountain like we do today for old unwanted mobiles? Apple, Android and more don't really seem to be paying too much attention to recycling all this. I guess it's hard to compete when a book is made of paper : )

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Squeezing, tilting, pinching and flicking...aka developing an app for the iPhone/iPad/iPod touch.

I've always enjoyed designing mobile web sites. They're relatively easy to build given their need for simplicity, clarity, and the ability you get to truly focus hard on the customers experience of using it. If you think about it, nowadays your customers can not only watch and listen, but squeeze, tilt, pinch, and flick your site or application.

That's pretty interactive, and recently I had the pleasure of doing all these things for a site, in working with two incredibly talented guys; Christopher Cheong & Vincent Truong when we pulled together a marketing app for the iPhone. Credit where due, Christopher and Vincent did all the really hard work, I just got to design, and get to tweak and play with all their excellent code : )

Built for RMIT University's Open Day, this relatively one day use app was RMIT's first, and I'm eternally grateful for those two for helping us get this live, and all that I learned from them. Not only great developers but multi skilled, (Chris also lectures in several subjects at RMIT) and damn nice guys to boot. They put up with me and did so with a smile, despite my endless requests, so I'm looking forward to doing more with them in the near future.

If your not coming to our Open Day it's a little hard to appreciate what this will do on the day, but I'd love to hear any comments, good or bad so we can learn for future apps.

Download the app from iTunes

(And yes Android lovers like me, you are not forgotten, and I have already heard you on our RMIT social networks, but we need more Android developers out there! In the meantime, most functions on the app will also be available across the www.rmit.edu.au/mobile web site on Open Day.)

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iPad? Some iCalm is needed, and I'm with Han Solo...

While many seem to have slightly lost the plot (and that's principally just the Apple staff) about the worlds most expensive rectangle, I thought this was a good use of Star Wars to tone down the iPad fever. I'm with Han Solo...