Adobe releases Flash Player 10.1 and AIR betas

Adobe Labs on Monday released test versions of two closely related foundations for Net-based applications, Flash Player 10.1 and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) 2.

Flash is widely used to bring streaming video, interactive graphics, and games to browsers; AIR, with Flash built in, is a foundation for other desktop applications. Both are instrumental to Adobe's effort to stay ahead of the gradually broadening feature set of HTML and related Web standards.

Notable Flash Player 10.1 is support for not just Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux computers, but also a variety of smartphones, though that support isn't yet built in. What is available is hardware-based decoding of the popular H.264 video format, which Adobe said improves performance and saves battery life. It also supports HTTP streaming linked with Adobe's content protection technology.
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How I would have designed Windows 7

I remember the first time I ran into Windows in 1995. It was in one of the few small computer shops in Hanoi, Vietnam, where you had to pay money to use the machines. Being a high school student with absolutely no money, I made friends with the owner and helped him clean up the place just so I could use the computers after-hours. And I spent many hours using them.
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Feel sick? Cough into your phone

According to a study, your mobile phone may contain more bacteria than a toilet bowl. After all, when was the last time you washed your handset and scrubbed it clean? However, soon there may be a reason to intentionally cough into your phone, especially if you are sick.

Research company STAR Analytical Services won a US$100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop an acoustic vocalization analysis software which is capable of analyzing a cough and determining the possible medical causes. This is achieved by using a pre-recorded database of thousands of coughing sounds to find a possible match for the ailment.
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Google Chrome to hit Macs in December

Google plans to release a Mac beta of Chrome in early December, judging by some chatter on a mailing list for the browser.

Chrome 4.0 is available today as a beta version for Windows, but on Linux and Mac OS X there is only a rougher developer-preview version. The standout feature of the new version is customization through extensions, a technology that long has been a core asset of another open-source browser, Firefox.
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System Mechanic 9 keeps Windows 7 spick and span

You get a new computer and it runs great. However, after a while, things start to get more and more sluggish. This is true for all operating systems, including those running the all new and shiny Windows 7.

That is because, other than user errors (such as misuse, viruses, spyware, accidental file deletion, harmful changes to the Registry and system settings, and so on), the OS doesn't take good care of itself.
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