Flash / AIR issues. System Restore to the Rescue

My new work PC developed an aversion to all things related to Adobe’s Flash and AIR earlier this week. Initially I thought it was just a Google Chrome / Flash issue. Then TweetDeck broke – it wouldn’t start up properly. Now, I don’t need TweetDeck on a work machine so that wasn’t too big of

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Ubuntuzilla Part 2 – Success!

As mentioned in yesterday’s post about Ubuntuzilla I decided to give ubuntuzilla and the Firefox 3.5 upgrade another shot today.

I’m pleased to say it worked great this time. No “page not found errors.” No hacks, kludges or work-arounds needed. It “just worked” (unlike yesterday).

Now then, we have to ponder… why did it work today and

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Getting Flash to Work With Prism in Linux

I’ve mentioned a few times that I like to use Mozilla’s Prism to run some of my web applications. Today I attempted to get Google Talk going in Prism on my little Linux Xubuntu laptop and hit some challenges.

Specifically, no Flash.

That’s odd. On my Windows machines Prism runs Flash stuff just fine. But hey, Linux

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A Bit More Hulu

Last week I mentioned that I was in the Hulu Beta. Since then, I’ve played around with it a bit more. I think I can summarize my thoughts with the word “neat.”

Want to watch House, Firefly or tons of other popular past and present shows? They got ‘em. There are tons of clips from those

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Want YouTube videos on your iPod?

Techcrunch has a post up today titled, “Put Any YouTube Video on Your iPod” that some readers may find interesting. Nice collection of links and utilities.

Not just for iPod users either — some of the stuff mentioned has a bit broader focus.

[Updates a day later]

Download Squad has some more options for getting YouTube

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