Adobe Flash Player 28

As Adobe Flash Player is quite notorious for being so much vulnerable in terms of security issues, it appears that it will be discontinued sometime 2 years later so we still have some time to make use of it.
The only reasons to make use of Adobe Flash Player again is probably Flash games as many of the web video players in video sharing sites like YouTube, Nico Nico Douga, etc. are going towards HTML5 for superior security although the NND video player in HTML5 lacks the foreign comments unless you choose a different region for your account.
Last year, I had a tons of gameplay videos of some of the Flash games released in recent times but the discontinuation of Flash Player is something we shouldn't worry about.

Adobe Flash security controversy

The criticism has been pushing Adobe away in a serious chain of sadness and disgrace like they're lazy enough to solve all of that security criticism in their products. So, to me, it may look like Adobe is seriously idiotic when it comes to cyber-security importance. Of course, they can't be as stupid as some US ISPs out there for purposing invading their customers' privacy on their accord like it's a sign of betrayal for those who are seeking proper privacy.
The recent reason on why Adobe Flash would be blocked in all versions of Firefox including Facebook and YouTube was obviously involving the security exploit implemented by The Hacking Team. Maybe, there should be a serious investigation on The Hacking Team after their illegal stuffs were completely compromised like it already opened doors to more illegal spying bullshit and more cyber-criminals who want to get their hands on those leaked tools for whatever purposes they want without caring for anything else.
However, the blockage of Adobe Flash may involve another controversy like many people need to watch videos or play social games on Facebook. It may be a problem there but for videos, Facebook can straight away use the HTML 5 technology like what YouTube already uses. Hell, even Twitter needs to switch to HTML 5 for videos as well.
So, do you put the blame on Adobe, The Hacking Team or perhaps both for how extremely weak the Adobe Flash security is? It is likely that you may put the blame on Adobe for that serious weakness. So what, is our computer completely infected because of that?

Game Maker Studio for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8

Game Maker Studio may seem to be multi-platform export compatible and Windows 8, Windows Phone and Steam versions are the next. But for Windows 8, it is going to be a confusing mix when it comes to games and apps used on it.  There may be games that will work on tablet only which is one bullshit factor as they are supposed to have support for multiple controls such as touch, mouse and keyboard, not touch only. Suppose that there’s a racing game to be run on Windows 8, the control concept should support keyboard, game controller and tablet controls which may involve touch and device tilting. That’s how the fairness should be when it comes to Metro games on Windows 8. If that’s the case for Game Maker Studio, games made for tablets and smartphones should have exact controls when ported to these platforms but Windows 8 is going to be an exception, they should support other controls besides touch because it is going to be a waste of people’s money if the games support like one control type only and not the others so what’s the point of getting those anyway? For Windows Phone 8 devices, the resolutions can be identical to certain Android devices but not all Windows Phone 8 devices support that high resolution so the development may be less difficult with common resolutions and less time consuming. But for IOS devices, it is obvious that porting from IOS to Android may take you more time due to different resolutions between the two OSes. For Windows 8 games ported from Android or Windows Phone 8 with 720P as the target resolution, you may expect the graphics to be kind of blur because the tablet resolutions may be somewhat higher than 720P. At least porting HD games from Ipad to Windows 8 may be a little bit challenging due to the fact that Windows 8 tablets are in widescreen. It’s the same deal for Android tablets when porting games from Ipad to Android.

However, how about the games that are going to be developed for all of these mentioned tablet and smartphone platforms? This can make the simultaneous development more challenging and time consuming because you may have to divide the same game into multiple versions. On the computer, the resolution doesn’t matter as much but you may have to tell the resolution requirement under System Requirements for whatever games you have made. If the computer is running the game at lower resolution than the game’s resolution, I can guess that there will be signs of pixel loss but I don’t know if this can pose more problems for running the Game Maker games like that. It’s kind of worse when running in Window Mode because you’re not able to see other parts of the game screen unless the screen resolution is set to the one higher than the game’s resolution.

Even better with Game Maker Studio is that the games can also be made for HTML5 in which games can be played online just like playing Adobe Flash games on the net.

So, you’ve known that Windows 8 had hit RTM stage but the development tool for Windows 8 will soon be out on the Windows Store under Desktop Store. The best platform for developing games with Game Maker Studio will be on the computers and if you want to test your creations that are simply made for tablets, smartphones or both, you can simply export to those platforms and then test it from there.

Office Store

Wow, even more apps to try out like I'm always looking for new apps I want to obtain from Windows Store. Here comes Office Store where you can obtain the add-on apps for the respective Office programs which may be easier than finding those add-ons on the net to install them manually which is NOT easy.
For Excel's add-on apps, there are some interesting examples like the Bubbles Chart and Medal Tracker. What an opportunity for Microsoft to add the Medal Tracker just because the Olympics is still on-going until August 12th, huh. And speaking of Olympics this year, Google has implemented the interesting mini-games doodles that are the parts of it. The first game reminded us of Track & Field by Konami but the controls were kind of weird that I had to figure out and eventually, I figured out that you're supposed to tap both the left and right arrows simultaneously as fast as you can while using Space key to jump. You have to do this without knocking down any single one hurdle as doing so can slow you down and take more time. For Medal Tracker, this is one great opportunity for you to try and record down the scores which may be kind of easy but the difficulty of entering these may depend on the games. For Bubbles Chart which is like making a chart mixed with Science. It's a new chart but it's an external one. Lastly is the Bing Maps and you can use that to visualize the set of data geographically. These apps are kind of unique to use in Excel but for me, I'm gonna try out the Bubbles Chart after this blog post one day.
In the preview builds, apps for Office so far are available for Word, Excel, Project and Outlook so the final version will include support for PowerPoint. Will that give me the best opportunity for further multimedia work using those addons for PowerPoint? Who knows? Maybe in the future when I have found the apps that are suitable for me to use in the new PowerPoint.
The apps are separate in terms of process but they can take up extra resources and extra start-up time. So the more add-ons you install, the longer the Office program takes to start but it's best to use the add-ons you use regularly with the other add-ons turned off to save time. If the external apps crash like Adobe Flash crashing on the browser which may be irritating, it seems that Office programs are not affected. You can restart the apps that have already crashed but then, there must be improvements to the apps to prevent future crashes. Another thing is that, if you insert stuffs from those apps into the document, the app you use to insert will be activated. Or when you open the document that contains the app objects, the apps whose stuffs are inserted will be activated as well.
So there you have it, the new kinds of add-ons which are the Office Apps for Office 15 only. You can try to backport the stuffs inserted using those apps into Office 2k10 by firstly screen-shooting the document and then selecting the app parts you want to insert into the document that is backwards compatible. I bet that it's an imaginative trick you can try to show off in the meeting presentations like your colleagues will be like, what the hell is up with these and how did you insert those and where did you get those from. Depending on the opinion, the apps may be cool or perhaps unnecessary enhancements to the documents.