Posts tagged with: adobe

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I stumbled upon the concept of "Local Shared Objects" for the first time today after reading about the Objection extension for Firefox.For those who have also not heard of "Local Shared Objects" or LSOs for short, Wikipedia define them as:A Local Shared Object (LSO) is a collection of cookie-like data stored as a file on a user's PC. LSOs are used by all versions of Adobe Flash Player and those subsequent to Version 5 of Macromedia's now-obsolete Flash MX PlayerWell, sounds reasonable enough as I've had to use cookies to my advantage before, so why shouldn't Flash developers have the same functionality? I mean, the user can always reject the cookie if they want, like normal cookies, right?Well, actually NO.  Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 19 May 2008 - 19 Jun 2008:  Continue reading ►

Adobe have finally remembered that there is another OS other than Windows, Linux and OS X that people may use to, oh I don't know, do anything those other OSes do, like browsing the internet - they've finally released Flash 9 for Solaris (go get it). Woohooo!!! Now all we need is for them to remember that we like to read PDF's on Solaris x86 and could do with a nice upgrade so we don't have to continue using Acrobat Reader 4 or the tools supplied as part of Gnome.