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Top 5 Flash Games on Facebook

August 27, 2024 Tech Review
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Facebook, the global No. 1 Social Network Site(SNS), has won millions of users. They hang on Facebook on daily basis or occasionally—update profiles, chat with friends, listen to music, share photos, watch videos and many other things. Interestingly, they can also play various games. Yes, without any doubt, social gaming especially Flash game is on the rise. Many game developers are aiming at this giant application platform for big business. The following is a list of Top 5 Flash games on Facebook estimated by Inside Social Games. Please note that it is arranged in a random order.

1. Candy Crush Saga

Candy Crush Saga was first released in April, 2012 for Facebook. As of April, 2013, it has attracted about 46 million users every month with its quick gameplay, colorful graphics and hundreds of tasty levels. The basic move of the game is to swap the positions of two adjacent candies horizontally or vertically, so as to create sets of three or more candies of the same color and they will be eliminated. There are over 100 separated levels with specific requirements to complete. To sum up, it’s easy and fun to play, but a challenge to master fully.

2.Bubble Island

Bubble Island is great to play and have fun with. It has attracted an average of 7 million players on Facebook. The goal is to match three or as many colorful bubbles as possible within 60 seconds. There is a lovely Raccoon at your side to feed your bubble shooters. In this cute and addictive game, you can choose either the classic or challenge mode to have great fun. To win the game, you must improve the shooting speed and accuracy.

3.CastleVille

It was made by Zynga’s Dallas studio. Upon its releasing in November 2011, it has won a million “like” on Facebook. As of April, 2013, the number of CastleVille players on Facebook has reached up to 8 million, placing itself to be 2013 Top 5 Flash Games on Facebook. Players are allowed to build their lands with castle elements, craft armor, art and various trade items. Their target is to explore the unknown land around the starting territory and expand their own empires into it.

4.8 ball pool

It is an easy but funny sport game loved by many users. There are a total of 16 balls with 1 cue ball and another 15 balls in various colors. Your object is to break the balls by shooting the cue ball into the triangular formation of the other 15 balls. It goes like this: left click the cue stick, drag it while you are holding the left mouse button down to aim the location that you would like the cue ball to go to. Once you have chosen, release the left mouse button immediately. To get better at this game, you should pay great attention to the amount of power you use on the shots as well as the accuracy you aim at the goal.

5.Top Eleven

It is an on-line Flash game specially developed for Facebook and other Social Networking Sites. As of May, 2013, there are over 10 million monthly users on Facebook. Players can compete with their friends, buy&sell players on real-time auctions, expand & improve the stadiums and lots of other funny things. Just follow the rules and enjoy the time acting as the Football Manager!

Guidelines on Installing Flash Player for Android on Jelly Bean Devices

August 23, 2024 Tech Tips
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Jelly Bean devices such as Galaxy S3/4, Sony Xperia SP, HTC One, Sony Xperia Z, and Nexus 4 are enjoying a hot market in the recent years. Some users even rely on those Jelly Bean mobile phones or tablets as the main entertainment tool. But the bad news coming from Adobe frustrated many users soon afterwards. The news said that there would be no support for Flash in Android Jelly Bean, because the new streaming technology HTML5 doesn’t need Flash player to play videos, as Adobe claimed. Well, it may be far-fetched to say so since HTML5 is not matured enough to be used by all websites. The fact is that some websites are still using Flash instead of HTML5. Therefore, it is a tricky problem for the users who want to access contents on these websites.

As a matter of fact, we can get around the issue by installing Flash player for Android devices manually. Listed in the below is the full-fledged process for your easy reference.

Step 1. Download the Adobe Flash Player Supporting Browser.

Of all popular browsers, Mozilla Firefox and Dolphin Browser are the most stable ones capable of supporting Flash Player. Personally, I would recommend using the latter since it has got many important features. Notes: In order to install the external app smoothly, you can go to Dolphin Browser Settings and then click the Unknown sources to enable the installation.

Step 2. Download Adobe Flash Play 11.1APK

Now that you have downloaded the proper Flash Player supporting Browser, it is time to download the Adobe Flash Play 11.1 apk file which is not available on Google Play Store. You can download the APK on the XDA developers website. Notes: There is potential risk to your devices or personal information when installing the APK file. Please prepare yourself well for any consequences that may caused by the installation.

Step 3. Copy APK File to SD Card

After downloading the .apk file of Flash Player for Android, you need to copy it to your Android devices’ SD card.

Step 4. Install APK on Android Device

Open your device and create a new file manager. The, browse to the location where you save the APK file, select it and install it.

Step 5.Enable Flash Player on Browser.

The last thing you should do is to enable flash player on the browser you chose. You can click the browser’s setting to look for the option that activates Flash Player on your Jelly Bean device.

OK, everything has been done. Adobe Flash player for Android is now running on your Jelly Bean device. You can hang on any websites freely including the Flash-based ones. Last but not least, if you have got some Flash SWF video files on your computer and would like to play SWF on Samsung Galaxy S or other Jelly Bean devices, you need to break the format limitation by the third-party SWF Video Converter.

How to Play Streaming Flash Video on Kindle Fire

August 23, 2024 Tech Tips
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“Is there a way to download a flash player for the Kindle Fire HD? It is quite frustrating to not have access to streaming online videos.” — Rachael E. Smith said on http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle/

We all know that Adobe has stopped the support for its Flash on Android devices since August 2012, which is the main reason that the 2nd Generation Amazon Kindle Fire and the Fire HD models cannot play Flash anymore (note that all Kindle Fires are Android devices). Adobe did this because HTML5 gradually takes the place of Flash in playing online videos. However, HTML5 has some way to go before totally replacing Flash. Additionally, many video providers haven’t made the transition from Flash to HTML5 yet, and 75% web videos are still viewed using Flash. That makes it tough Kindle Fire fans to access Flash contents without a workaround.

Many Kindle users complain that they have no idea how to play Flash on Kindle Fire, and they have tried to search Google for the Flash player for Kindle Fire. To tell you the truth, currently, there’re two ways that you can adopt so as to watch online video on Kindle Fire:

1: Install Adobe Flash Player on Kindle Fire

2: Use Amazon’s Experimental Streaming Viewer

Install Adobe Flash Player on Kindle Fire

Actually, there’s no better way than installing Flash Player back on Kindle Fire. I mean, to install an earlier version of Flash, and install an earlier version of the Dolphin Browser which still supports Flash on Android. Simple enough, if Kindle support Flash again, all problems will be solved, right? So, how can we manage this? Well, do the following steps:

Do the following on the Kindle Fire HD or Kindle Fire 2:

  • Go to the ‘Home’ screen.
  • Swipe down (lightly pressing and pulling down) from the top of the screen.
  • That gets you the Quick Settings Menu.
  • Click on “More” at the top right.
  • Go down the Settings list to “Device” and click on that.
  • Choose to “Allow Installation of Applications From unknown sources.”

    (Amazon allows this, while Barnes and Noble doesn’t, on the Nooks)

Installation files end in “.apk”

Then download and tap to install, to your Kindle Fire 2/HD, the files at the following links, with your new Kindle Fire 2 or Kindle Fire HD:

  1. the free file manager app, ES File Explorer

    (It’s useful also to get Easy Installer, which looks only for install-files and then shows them to you so that you can choose which one to install. If you have any problems installing Flash Player, be sure to get and use Easy Installer.)

  2. the specific Adobe Flash file offered at XDA Developers Forum
  3. and also
  4. the Dolphin browser (v8.5.1), identified in the forum post as “APK Download,” which supports that specific Adobe Flash Player file.

    (I actually use the latest Dolphin browser HD (v9.2.0), which also works for me with the older special Adobe Flash Player file — I get the latest Dolphin HD from http://wwww.1mobile.com - To use the app store, you download its store app! which works like the Amazon app). The Dolphin makers continue to update that browser; HOWEVER, the one file that’s recommended at the Amazon Kindle forum is the v8.5.1 linked to above, so it’s better to just get v8.5.1 linked above to be sure.)

Once an install file (.apk) downloads, you’ll receive a Notification that it’s been downloaded. Then, do the following:

  1. When you receive notification that the Adobe Flash Player is downloaded,

    run or launch the ES File Explorer app (or run Easy Installer).

  2. Look in the “Downloads” folder if an app doesn’t auto-install.
  3. You should see the Dolphin HD browser icon.
  4. Tap it to install the browser.
  5. Do the same for the Adobe Flash Player file.

Dolphin HD Browser settings

When you’ve launched the browser, the usual Android Menu icon (it’s square and looks like an air conditioner or a washboard) can be tapped to bring up several options.

  1. Tap on “More” (it has 3 lines).
  • Then tap on the 3rd option, which is “Settings.”
  • Go down to “Web Content” and tap “Flash Player” — the choices are:
    • Always on (videos will auto-run - easiest but it’ll slow down some page loads and sometimes Flash routines will cause crashes, one reason Steve Jobs hated it).
    • On Demand (You’ll tap a blank rectangle — or one with a down-arrow in it — to have it run only when you want that.)
    • Off (I see no reason to use this.)
  • Other settings - ones I use, in case you wonder what might work:

    . Auto-fit Pages: ON

    . Default Zoom: 200% (Close up)

    . Open Pages in Overview: ON

  • ALSO, make sure Javascript setting, just below Flash, is On or Enabled.

Then, after installing the app files and making sure that the Flash setting is set to run Flash either Always or On Demand, you’ll be able to switch to the Dolphin HD browser app when needing to see a video requiring Flash.

Use Amazon’s Experimental Streaming Viewer

Well, the solution above seems to be a little complicated, and additionally, installing a side-loaded APK means taking risks with your devices and/or personal information. Therefore, many Kindle fans don’t prefer to do that. Good news is that, in answer to its customer’s pleas, Amazon has actually developed the Experimental Streaming Viewer and integrated it into Silk to allow playback of some Flash video. That means you can still view Adobe Flash videos from a limited number of websites with the experimental streaming viewer.

The experimental streaming viewer converts Flash videos into a format that the Silk browser can understand. If Flash videos are detected on a compatible website, a notification will appear at the bottom of the screen. If you choose to view Flash content using the experimental streaming viewer, content for the Flash-enabled site (including any SSL content) will pass through Amazon’s servers if Silk’s cloud accelerator feature is enabled. Individual identifiers like IP and MAC addresses are not associated with browsing history, and are only collected for technical troubleshooting.

However, Amazon is yet to reveal how far it’ll take the experiment but said it has broadened Flash-friendly access to around a dozen sights at the time of writing. So, you may still need to wait for a while till they perfect the viewer.

5 Best Browsers Supporting Flash for iOS 6 Devices

August 22, 2024 Tech Review
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It has been quite a while since Apple rolled out the iOS 6-the sixth major update to the mobile operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Many users couldn’t wait to get the latest update to try out the special experience. However, it didn’t take long for them to find frustrations, simply because they cannot do what they like freely, for example, watch some Flash SWF videos on websites. Sure, it’s a big problem to play SWF on iPad, or iPhone since the Adobe Flash Player has always been turn downed by Apple products.

Delightfully, there are some good browsers capable of supporting online Flash content, allowing iOS 6 users to view any Flash SWF materials without installing the Adobe Flash Player. Note: if you would like to share SWF videos on websites like YouTube, please find more tips on how to share SWF video on YouTube.

1.Skyfire

It was the original Flash video-enabled web browser for iPad. As the enhanced version of the native browser of Safari, it is powerful enough to help users watch living streaming videos which are not supported by Safari, such as live news, sports and more. Besides, it allows users to customize the browser with more than 50 of their favorite browser tools. With only one click, users can access to the web’s most popular social networks, content feeds and utilities such as Facebook and Twitter feed.

2.Photon

Photon browser is a powerful and versatile Safari alternative that excels in its Flash support. Supporting unlimited tabbed browsing just like Firefox and Chrome. It allows users to watch Flash videos, play Flash games or use Flash apps freely. Besides, clicking the “Lightning Bolt” button, users can enter streaming mode to view Flash sites.

3. Puffin

Puffin is a incredible fast web browser. It is the premium version of the Puffin family. Basing on a massive cloud data center, it can support Adobe Flash on iOS 6 devices well. Thanks to its wicked fast loading speed, users can get a wonderful web experience easily.

4.iSwifter

It is considered to be the first gaming browser for the iPad in the world. It allows users to play any Flash games on iOS 6 devices freely, be it Social casual, social mid-core or MMOs. Besides, it also helps users to find their desired games since it is powered by Agawi cloud gaming platform. Additionally, the updated version has got much faster loading speed and the audio quality has been improved greatly as well.

 

5. Browse2Go

It is a fast, powerful and DNS- free web browser being able to support Flash content on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. It allows users to enjoy various videos, games and movies on the iOS Device. Users can also watch Flash videos in full screen mode. With its elegant design and many great features, users can get a very enjoyable watching experience.

Top 6 HTML5 Games

August 21, 2024 Tech Review
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It is said that HTML5 would ultimately outdo Flash and become the official Web standard in 2014. Be it true or not, it has attracted much attention of web designers. With a selection of fantastic advantages, it not only allows users to embed videos in browsers without any plug-in like Adobe Flash, but also has great impact on the gaming industry. Providing a great and mobile-friendly way, web designers can create many funny games by using HTML5′s tag. That is to say, all the games are created 100% in native web code. They can be natively played by the HTML5-compatible browsers such as Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and Internet Explorer, etc. Here are six best HTML5 games that loved by many people. Hope you will find any one of them of interest.

1. Solitairey

This is a free game especially suits for those people who loves playing cards in the spare time. As the name implies, it is a single-player game. The point of the game is to start with seven piles of cards with different numbers in each and to get it down to four piles that go from king to ace by suite. Sounds very simple and interesting, right? Well, you will sure find much fun during the playing. Just remember: winning the game requires much patience.

2. Save the Day

Developed in 2012 by the HTML5 gaming platform Turbulenz, Save the Day is a delightful game that gives you much fun. Your mission is to save people, put out the fire by flying a helicopter in a limited time. There are some stunning features of the game which include infinite replayability, hearty high-score high-jinks, High-octane helicopter heroics and scrumptious snack-sized game play, etc.

3. Lux Ahoy

If you like playing the Angry Birds or Pirates, I am sure you will love this game as well. It is an Earth-style, turn-based combat game with all the graphics creating and animated in Flash and ported to HTML5, so that it can offer you impressive and interactive experiences. Your goal is to hit the enemies with a cannon ball whose power and angle are well controlled.

4. Cut the Rope

This is one of the most popular games favored by thousands of millions smart phone users. It was designed by a Russia game developer called ZeptoLab in 2010. A lovely little frog is packed in a mysterious package, and all you should do is to feed it with as many candies as possible. Once you have satisfied the cutie, you will get many gold stars and proceed to next level. It’s quite simple to get through the primary levels, however, it would be more and more difficult since there will be various obstacles to stop you. Good luck!

5. HexGL

It is an awesome WebGL based futuristic racing game. It can be played via an HTML5-supporting browser directly. You can choose the causal or hard mode and select your quality, be it mobile, mainstream, or ultra—whatever as you like. Just go and challenge your friends on this fast-paced wonderful game!

6. Fight or Flight

It is an very easy and cool game. You have got 4 lives totally and your goal is to try to avoid the pink dots. You can earn points for every second you stay alive. If you want to get more points, you can capture the smaller dots. There are two ways to play the game, one is to use your mouse and the other is the device orientation—one of the HTML5 new features. However, not every browser can support this new feature well.

Facebook acquiring for the Mobile Technologies

August 15, 2024 Tech News
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Facebook is well-known to thousands of millions of people all over the world. As a popular free social networking website, users are allowed to create profiles, upload photos, various videos, so that they can keep in good touch with friends, family and colleagues. So far, it is globally available in 37 different languages.

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But Facebook is never satisfied with what it has achieved. Over a billion registered users across the world are using Facebook every month; still, Facebook is always adhering to its mission of looking for the workable ways to help connect the rest of the world. On August 12, 2013, Facebook announced that it has agreed to acquire the Mobile Technologies and purchased a speech recognition and machine translation start-up—precisely the Pittsburgh-based developer behind the app Jibbigo, aiming at connecting its users across the language barriers. According to an insider who said that the translation tool was able to translate Facebook’s News Feed posts as well as offer voice search in multiple languages. As we know that, Jibbigo was launched in 2009 as the world’s first speech-to-speech translator. It can be run on a mobile phone, on the internet or even off-line. Users are allowed to key in the text or make the voice recording in one of the 25 languages; afterwards, Jibbigo will translate the data file immediately on screen or read aloud to the users. Currently, Jibbigo is available on both the iOS and Android operating systems. It is said that Facebook would continue to offer support to this app, while on the other hand, some members of Mobile Technologies team will be shifted to Facebook in the near future.

“I’m excited to announce that we’ve agreed to acquire Mobile Technologies, a company with an amazing team that’s behind some of the world’s leading speech recognition and machine translation technology.”, Facebook’s Tom Stocky said. As far as we are concerned, voice technology is becoming more and more important; many people prefer to use it to navigate their mobile phones. It is considered as a revolutionary technology, helping us to evolve the current products to catch up with the evolution. As one of the member of Jibbigo team said, “Facebook, with its mission to make the world more open and connected, provides the perfect platform to apply our technology at a truly global scale.”

As the old saying goes, “People fear what they don’t understand.” Facebook will probably go a lot further and do big things, turning science fiction into a reality with the support of Mobile Technologies.

Three Easy Way to Play SWF Flash on iPhone 5 Freely

August 6, 2024 Tech Tips
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For a very long time, Apple products especially its iPhone series (range from the first generation to iPhone 5) have always been come out on top with thousands of millions fans. iPhone 5, as the latest version, is really something we should talk about. Comparing with the model iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 has got a larger display screen with a higher video resolution. It can be run for much longer thanks to the better quality battery. The biggest highlight of iPhone 5 is that it is based on the iOS 6 operating system which has got lots of advantages over the iOS 5. Despite so many wonderful new features being added to iPhone 5, iPhone 5 fans will still be disappointed. Why? Simply because something’s missing in iPhone 5—the SWF Flash support! From the first iPhone model to the latest one, iPhone users have been hoping that Apple would add the support to SWF Flash on its products just like Samsung Galaxy S3 and Nokia Lumia 900 do; however, all that they get is nothing but disappointment. Since iPhone 5 fails to support Adobe Flash, it is a tough task when comes to the playback of Flash on iPhone 5 freely.

Actually, there are three ways to play SWF Flash video files on iPhone 5. They are listed and explained as below.

1. Using the Apple App

Firstly, you can use the Skyfire, which’s approved by Apple, serving as a Flash video-enabled web browser for iPhone(iPhone 5 included). You can purchase it in iTunes APP Store and it will help to convert the SWF Flash files to HTML5, allowing you to view the content freely. Unluckily, it cannot support all of the Flash content, say, the game Flash video files.

2. Jail Breaking

To conduct the jail breaking, please follow the below instructions: install OpenSSH -> download, install and set up Cyber duck for Mac or WinSCP for Windows -> download Frash-0.02.deb file -> navigate to /var/root/Media directory and create a folder named “Cydia” -> create another folder named Auto Install inside Cydia -> copy the Frash-0.02.deb file to folder Auto Install -> restart and enjoy Flash on iPhone 5.

3.Convert SWF Flash to Video via the third-party software

If you would like to play SWF Flash video files directly on iPhone 5 with the original video/audio/image kept, it is the best to transcode SWF to the acceptable video format by iPhone 5 like MP4 with the help of a professional SWF Video Converter. The steps of the conversion is quite simple: import the SWF Flash videos, choose output video format, customize the video files optionally and start the conversion.

Overview of 4K

August 1, 2024 Tech Review
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What is 4K

When we talk about HD video, many people will think about HD 720p, HD 1080p, 2K, this is partly correct. Acutually, with the rapid development of multi-media technology, we also have got 4K, which refers to the recording frame size (2048 or 4096 pixels horizontal resolution across). To most comsumers, 4K video provides them the unprecedented full-on visual experience.

Where to get 4K video

As far as we are concerned, 4K videos are available on several known websites and they can be captured by some digital camcorders.

1. Websites include: YouTube (you can watch 4K video online or download it to your computer), Vimeo ( 4K videos are mainly about art, animals, plants, landscape, etc) and Metacafe (the defect is that you need to spend time filtering the real 4K videos)

2. Digital camcorders: Sony, Panasonic, Canon, Nikon and other and HD camcorders.

Ways to play 4K video

Generally speaking, there are two ways to appreciate the 4K vidoes. The first one is to enjoy it on a professional 4K video player such as Sony FMP-X1 priced at $699 and REDRAY 4K video player with a $1750 price tag, which however, are too expensive for most comsumers to affort. This fact prompts many people to choose the other way, downloading 4K videos from websites and watching on computers, mobile phones and other popualr portable devices.

Problem about 4K videos

Incompatibility issue is quite common in the video world, which is also true to the stunning 4K. As is often the case, we will be puzzled by the problems such as “Well, I can produce 4K video with my Sony camcorder but none of my Mac players can play or convert it freely.“, “Does anyone know of any software which can playback videos at 4k resolution?” and a bunch more.

How to playback or convert 4K videos on Mac freely

Different from 720p, 1080p videos, the playback or conversion of 4K video is in a higher standard, calling for a professional 4K Video Converter. Firecoresoft 4K Video Converter is exactly what we need. Featured with the most advanced technology, it is reliable and professional. It supports converting 4K videos whether downloaded or shot by camcorders with best possible output quality. After conversion, you can enjoy or edit 4K video on application and even transfer it to any popular media devices. Note that 4K Video Converter for Mac is also available.