G1, Symbian, and BlackBerry owners will be happy to know their devices will soon be more Flash compatible than ever. With support from the Open Screen Project, an industry-wide initiative led by Adobe, many smart-phone owners will receive complete access to all Flash content right from their device’s built-in web browser.

The project touts itself as “[enabling] consumers to engage with rich Internet experiences seamlessly across any device, anywhere”, with the additional aim of providing a consistent runtime environment for people on the go, and removing barriers for publishing content and applications across a wide array of consumer electronics.

Adobe believes removing said “barriers” will entice more people to take advantage of Flash utilities, but it seems that not all companies agree. Apple looks to be missing out on the promise of a richer, friendlier Flash environment, by sticking to their policy of avoiding technology that offers little value.

So what does this mean for all of you Apple aficionados? The iPhone will not be receiving the Flash 10.1 support, which means iPhone owners will not be shooting ducks for cash prizes while they wait for the page to load (at least not anytime soon).

Is Apple making a smart move by steering clear of the attempt to bring mobile devices and Flash closer? Could this mean no more YouTube support for iPhone owners? Oh wait, we have an app for that.

The application, Outbreaks Near Me, builds upon the mission and proven capability of HealthMap, an online resource that collects, filters, maps and disseminates information about emerging infectious diseases.

It provides a new, contextualised view of a user’s specific location – pinpointing outbreaks that have been reported near the user and offering the opportunity to search for additional outbreak information by location or disease.

Besides Outbreaks Near Me set alerts that will notify a user on their device or by e-mail when new outbreaks are nearby, or if a user enters a new area of activity.

“We hope individuals will find the new application to be a useful source of outbreak information – locally, nationally, and globally,” says HealthMap co-founder John Brownstein, assistant professor in the Children’s Hospital (Boston) Informatics Programme (CHIP).

“As people are equipped with more knowledge and awareness of infectious disease, the hope is that they will become more involved and proactive about public health.”

Users can also submit an outbreak report. This will enable individuals in cities and countries worldwide to interact with the HealthMap team and participate in the public health surveillance process.

Users may take photos – of situations and scenarios of, and/or leading to, disease – with their iPhone and submit them to the HealthMap system for review and eventual posting as an alert on the worldwide map.

“This is grassroots, participatory epidemiology,” says HealthMap co-founder Clark Freifeld, a PhD student at the MIT Media Lab and research software developer at CHIP,” according to a Children’s Hospital release.

HealthMap was founded in 2006 and mines the Internet – searching disparate data sources such as news reports, curated personal accounts, official alerts, blogs and chat rooms – to track and map infectious disease outbreaks.

This is no April 1′ joke, I’ve always been a bit biased with apple’s products, but this is really convincing.

Do you have an app that you wish was on the iPhone, but hasn’t been developed or ported over yet? Certainly we all have our wish lists when it comes to apps, but one that I’ve been waiting for since the beginning is the chat and VOIP program, Skype (Mac or Windows). Fortunately, the folks over at Skype have finally put together a great app for iPhone and if you’ve never used Skype, I’m here to tell you why you will be soon.

This week’s apps include Skype for iPhone and a simple game that offers an excellent interface for simulating one of the most difficult (and most stressful) jobs in the world.

Skype

(Free) for iPhone and iPod Touch(!) lets you make calls to other Skype users for free with great sound quality and an easy to navigate interface. Current Skype users can login using their regular username and password or you can create a new account from the app. From there, simply add contacts who also use Skype and you’ll be able to call them and text them without using your AT&T minutes or effecting your text limit. What might be even better, if you own an iPod Touch, all you’ll need is a headset with a microphone to use your iPod Touch just like a phone!

In order for it to work smoothly, you’ll need to have a reliably strong Wifi or 3G connection when you call and Edge users may experience some problems. To enable voicemail or get your own online phone number, you’ll need to sign up with Skype at their Web site, but the rates are pretty affordable. Even without a paid plan, as long as you tell your friends to download Skype on their phone and let them know you’re calling beforehand, you’ll be able to talk as long as you want, wherever you want to call, without using your minutes.

FlightControl (99 cents) seems like a relatively simple game at the beginning, offering 2D graphics with you looking down at an airport runway. As passenger jets begin to fly into your airspace, your job is to draw the flightpath to the runway so that the plane can safely land. Sounds easy right? The only problem is, it gets much harder. Soon, biplanes and helicopters begin to show up and they each have their own runway and landing zones. As the game progresses your screen will become covered with aircraft and it gets harder and harder to direct them to their landing spot without a mid-air collision. If there’s one collision your game is over.

I downloaded this game a week ago and I still keep coming back to try to get a new high score. Flight Control is both incredibly challenging and very addicting and definitely worth the 99 cent price tag.

If you’re looking for a way to kill your time, at the same time brush your grey cells give a try to rubik’s cube.
For those who have no idea what this is about, its a small game cube having 3×3x3 colored cubes fixed at the axis, the quest is to rearrange the cubes and put them back in order so that each face has the cubes arranged with a similar color.
Its a pretty simple puzzle but random twisting would take you a lifetime. So you need to know what you’re doing to solve this piece of cube.
Some random facts about the cube : It was found by Erno Rubik in 1974.
Rubik’s Cube became the mega-fad of the early ’80s. More than 300 million cubes have been sold.
That’s nothing, of course, compared to the 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 different possible permutations of the classic cube — enough to cover the planet with 273 layers of cubes, each with a unique arrangement of colors.
But don’t worry about solving it, you have loads of sites and software which offers to solve the cube, even Iphone introduced a new software called cubecheater to solve the cube by taking pictures of the sides of the cube in the phone. It claims to solve in 20 moves or less.
Trust me this cube is one hell of a time pass for me at the office, and somehow twisting the cube with a serious look on your face gives a stunning appearance on you, people mistake you for a genius

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