In short, it’s a battle between the new and upcoming web standard, HTML5 against Adobe’s Flash technology, a de facto in video streaming on the web today. Some say Apple is shooting itself in the foot for not supporting Flash but promoting a technology that is foreign to end users. They have their valid points, however Apple has armed itself with a strong argument to say otherwise.

The iPhone and its touch OS has been released to the public through 3 different generations in the past 3 years. So don’t think for a second that Apple never gave Adobe a chance to develop Flash for the iPhone (one that is not a resource hog which shortens battery life and slows everything down). Adobe simply failed to deliver. Case in point, Adobe recently demoed its beta build of Flash on the Android mobile platform, it crashed and burnt. Adobe at this point in time, simply doesn’t have a working product on any mobile platform at all.

One would then think a simple solution for Adobe to get back into the game is to put more engineers to work and make Flash stable and available on all the mobile OS as soon as it possibly can. Well, that’s not what Adobe is doing. Rather than investing in research and development, it spent money on marketing to portray Apple is foul-playing. Yes, the image shown in this post is one of the many used in this campaign.

Don’t just take my words for it though because to most, I would appear to be a hardcore Apple fanboy. Personally, I’m falling off the Apple bandwagon as of late because Apple’s current product offerings are not appealing to me. Read up on HTML5 and how it will change the web.

To relieve this pain, many school administrators now propose having Wi-Fi on the bus. So far, 25 counties got on board with this Wi-Fi on the go program. Kids are saying they get more homework done on the way to school, they’re now able to do more research just before a class discussion and all that goodness technology upgrades should provide academically.

My thoughts? I’d say it’s an interesting idea to occupy the kids but I don’t see how this would make the experience more pleasant. If anything, it opens up a possibility where one would hear loud rap from the back of the bus, Keith Urban in the front, foreign tunes the Asian kids are listening to, and Spanish songs blasting all at the same time – on top of whatever is playing on the most popular radio station in town.

Thanks but I’ll take the short bus.

1. From your Account drop-down list, select Privacy Settings.

2. Click the Applications and Websites link.

3. Click the Edit Setting button in the Instant Personalization section.

4. Uncheck the box labeled Allow select partners to instantly personalize their features with my public information with I first arrive on their websites.

5. When prompted, click the Confirm button.

6. Back at the Applications and Websites section of the Privacy Settings, click the Edit Settings button next to What your friends can share about you.

7. Remove the check mark from every single item listed and then click the Save Changes button.

There are currently 3 applications that make use of Open Graph, you need to block them from accessing your information. Follow these links (Docs app, Pandora app and Yelp app). Locate the Block Application link on the left hand side of the page then click it. If done correctly, Open Graph will be completely disabled in your Facebook account.