Now The iPad Can Run Flash Contents and Videos !!

One feature that is always being requested by users of iOS devices is Flash support. However till date, iOS still does not support Flash natively.

Now, things change for the better with the availability a few web browsers that support Flash.

There are at least 3 third party browsers now in the Apple AppStore that support Flash Content:
1) iSwifter
2) Puffin Web Browser
3) Skyfire

Both iSwifter and Puffin Web Browser supports both Flash Interactive contents and videos while Skyfire only support Flash Video.

I'm taking the following Flash Interactive Content-based website, "www.singtelshop.com" as an example.

Here's how it looks like when the URL is run in my iPad's built-in Safari Browser:



I'm stucked at the first screen using Safari Brower.

Here's how it looks when run in Puffin Web Browser:



Yes!! The all-so-familiar Flash content of SingtelShop shows! It's also as interactive as it's on desktop browser.
I would say it's even smoother than on my Galaxy Tab which supports Flash natively!

Well, I do not know if these browser (Puffin or iSwifter) did any conversion prior to serving the contents to the user. But it sure runs like native Flash content, if it's actually not native.

Price-wise, Puffin is not free and I don't see any "lite" version.
However there's a free lite version for iSwifter which runs the Flash contents as smoothly as Puffin.

Note that no Jailbreak is needed to run these browsers.

Now, I wonder why this is not being widely made known to iOS users.

Another reason to get the iPad over Android Tablet.

- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

Reasons to Upgrade From iPad 1 to iPad 2 - Video

There are many who told me that there are no reasons enough to upgrade my iPad 1 to iPad 2.
They feel that without a Retina Diaplay, the rest are too trivial.

I beg to differ and went on to sell off my iPad 1 and get the second gen. No regret since.
First off, video watching is one of my main uses of iPad.
The current iOS, as with the previous versions only support hardware video acceleration for mp4 format. In fact the built in Video app only support mp4 format.

Not long ago, Apple open up its app store to third party video player apps. These apps support video formats other than mp4, e.g mkv, avi, rmvb, etc. However it can only use software decoders to decode these formats. When these formats are played on my previous iPad 1, higher bit-rate videos tend to go sluggish intermittently.



I ran the same bit-rate video of avi format on my iPad 2 and hey, it plays rather smoothly!

Watch this space for more reasons to upgrade ....