Adobe's Latest Version Of Flash and Air Will Deliver Console Quality Gaming [Video]

Adobe is working on new versions of Flash Player and Air that could bring some compelling gaming and video features to the table. So compelling, you may even be tempted to install the oft-bloated apps on your computer.

According to Adobe, both Flash and Air will have full hardware-accelerated 3D graphic capabilities and improved 2D graphics. These improvements will enable console-quality gaming on the desktop and mobile devices. That would be a sweet feature if Adobe can pull it off.

Other improvements include HD video support for Flash-based iOS apps, full HD video with Surround Sound 7.1 support for connected TVs, and the addition of Flash Access and Adobe Pass which allows developers to add rental and subscription options to their apps.

And there's one little convenience feature for Air users. Adobe Air can be bundled with an app so developers can release their application and all necessary Air files in one package. Look for the new and improved Adobe Flash 11 and Air 3 to arrive sometime in October. [Adobe]

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Memory City Will Turn Your Mountain of Flash Drives into a Byte-Sized Burg [USB]

The flash drives are taking over. They live in your desk drawers, you laptop bag, between your couch cushions and in your pockets. They're taking over. It's out of control. They need a home. Behold, Memory City.

Memory City is like the Land of Toys in Pinocchio. It's a place where thumb drives are free to exist as a critical mass of occasionally-accessed storage, and live a carefree existence. And on the plus side, they won't turn into donkeys and corrupt your data.

With your help, Memory City can grow to contain four USB drives, three USB caps, three SD cards, three mini-SD cards. Sadly though, a home is not a hub, and you'll still have to plug them into your computer, one by one. [Design 3000 via Oh Gizmo! via Holy Cool]

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Tripoli Was Brought Down By a Caterer With a Bunch of Flash Drives [Libya]

In reporting on the Fall of Tripoli, Reuters tells the inside story of Abdel Majid Mlegta, a caterer who supplied the victuals for Gaddafi's regime. Putting key inside information on a series of memory sticks, this man was instrumental in bringing Gaddafi down.

In the days and weeks that followed the August 20th uprising, rebel forces were able to capture or topple many major operation rooms of Gaddafi's forces. That information was collected by Mlegta, who had built up good relations with his superiors before defecting, and secretly leaked to NATO and rebel leaders on three flash drives. According to Reuters:

After presenting the rebels' plan "from A to Z", Mlegta handed NATO officials three memory cards: the one packed with information about regime strongholds in Tripoli; another with updated information on regime sites as well as details of 65 Gaddafi officers sympathetic to the rebels who had been secretly supplied with NATO radiophones; and a third which contained the plot to take Tripoli.

So confident were they in the revolution, that they didn't even make the plot a secret. That plot would go on to be known as Operation: Mermaid Dawn. And they were ready. Follow Mlegta's story and how it all went down on Reuters.

Photo Credit: AP Photo/Balint Szlanko

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