We have heard much controversy over the past month between two dominating tech companies: Adobe, and Apple. Since around 2007 with the introduction of the iPhone, Apple has made a greater stand against  the use of Adobe Flash on its’ products. Apple was very quite about the use of Flash on its’ new iPhone mobile device. They knew that openly derogating the value of Flash would cause a web-wide uproar, which caused Apple to more secretly despise the format. More recently with the introduction of Safari, Apple made repeated comments that the number one cause of Safari crashes were triggered from flash applications. We also heard during the introduction of Snow Leopard that Flash causes unnecessary CPU spikes which reduces battery life. It seems that every day, Apple grows bolder in its’ fight against the mighty Flash and Adobe behemoth.

Most recently, after the introduction of the Apple iPad, Steve Jobs has been quoted as saying many nasty things towards Flash. He also openly said that HTML5 is likely to replace Flash altogether, therefore no action is necessary towards creating Flash experiences on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. With all these means things that Apple has done to our poor friend Adobe, is there anyway that they can kiss and make-up? The answer is: ”Yes, Maybe”.

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Have you wanted to get in on the iPhone app craze, but can’t, because you simple aren’t a coder? Well for all of you that feel that way, your future is looking very bright. We have already heard that the new version of Adobe Flash that is to be released later this year, will have the option to export to iPhone App format. The problem is that a copy of Flash will set you back about a minimum of $400, plus it is still going to require you to use some code (albeit actionscript).

Now there is a new option, an app that will allow you to create an app without a single semi-colon of code, it’s called App-o-mator.

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This is by far the coolest app we have ever seen come to the iPhone. The idea is so original and so much more advanced than any other app on the market right now. Parrot, a french company (view english site here), has debuted a new augmented reality app for the iPhone and iPod touch, that lets you control a remote  controlled helicopter using the wi-fi from your iPhone or iPod touch. The controls are “intuitive” and “user friendly” as told by the companies promotional video, however we haven’t been able to get our hands on one yet for a full review (wink, wink Parrot).

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What? Microsoft Office is forbidden? Those were the exact words today of a panel of U.S. Federal Appeals Court judges. Sometimes these stories almost seem too weird to be true, “somehow Microsoft will find a way out of it”, we often think to ourselves. But I don’t think that will be the case here, at least not initially. Office will surely come back in a year or so, once they have removed all of the patent violations, but we won’t see it in stores for the better part of 2010.

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It is days like today that I love being a Mac user. Sure, Windows had the first run with Google Chrome (which ironically turned out to be the worst Mac browser I have every tested, but more on that in a later post), but today Mac users are able to use an exciting new twitter client called Kiwi. Furthermore, it will likely be Mac-only forever since it’s developer, Yourhead Software , produces Mac applications exclusively. While we may have lost with Chrome, at least we weren’t missing out on much of anything in that race, whereas this awesome app, “Kiwi”,  may cause poor windows users to loose sleep at night wishing they could get their over-tweeted hands on this beautiful App.

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It has taken over a year for the elusive browser to make its’ way to mac. Ironic, only because the engine behind Chrome is WebKit, which was actually designed by Apple, for macs (specifically Safari), but nonetheless, you can download the browser starting today, in public Beta. Simply visit http://www.google.com/chrome.

There are many exciting features coming our way with this new browser, sadly as well, some features from Chrome in windows, will not be carried over to Mac. Read the rest of this entry »