Apple’s iPad and iPhone and the iOS software that powers both of those devices is all well and good if you’re a single geek who doesn’t have a social life, but what if you have a family? Everyone has their own email account, some probably even have more than one, everyone has a Facebook account, and everyone has their own set of bookmarks. Managing all that user data is currently impossible due to the lack of multiple user support in iOS, but today Skyfire has announced a solution called “HotSwap”. Simply install Skyfire’s browser [iTunes link], setup accounts for you and your loved ones, and boom, your iPad is now the post PC “family computer”. Now of course there’s a catch to all this. For one thing, Skyfire isn’t free. It’s a whopping $5, which is money that could be put to better use on a game or something. Also, don’t Read More

Minimize iPad sharing frustration with Skyfire HotSwap. Passing one iPad around an entire family can be frustrating, as everyone likely logs in to check their email and social networks without logging back out, and many folks will leave tabs open or clutter up the browser history with sites you could care less about. Rather than constantly log in and out and start to secretly resent those you love why not download Skyfire HotSwap instead? The new service, which integrates directly into the Skyfire browser, allows users to set up to four separate profiles on an iPad, each with its own social and email settings and browser preferences. Not only is it more convenient, it’s also a boon to user privacy, as now brothers and sisters don’t have to worry about the other spying on their email. Of course, by the same token parents may find it harder to keep tabs on Read More

posted by Jacob Penderworth on Friday, March 2, 2012 at 10:16 am.   Originally submitted by Jacob We’re back with another weekly installment of iFans Weekly Deals, which highlights the best app, product and accessory deals that you can get your hands on for a limited time only! As always, we’ll update this post throughout the weekend if there are any new additions, so check back frequently. This week’s apps feature the Skyfire Web Browser for iPad and iPhone at only $2.99 and $.99, respectively, Crash Bandicoot Nitro Kart 2 for $.99, and more. In other deals, there’s a 23-inch Gateway monitor, a refurbished MacBook Air, and more. Check out the full list after the break! Read More

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posted by Jacob Penderworth on Friday, January 27, 2012 at 11:30 am.   We’re back with another weekly installment of iFans Weekly Deals, which highlights the best app, product and accessory deals that you can get your hands on for a limited time only! As always, we’ll update this post throughout the weekend if there are any new additions, so check back frequently. This week, there are several awesome iPad apps that are being offered for half-price, plus a Griffin Explorer case for iPhone 4S for more than 65% off. You can’t miss this week’s edition… Read More

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Oct 13, 2011 | Skyfire Web Browser, the popular iPhone and iPad app that lets you watch flash videos, received an update today. Now it will suggest videos that you will like based on what you’ve watched. It’s like Pandora – for video! Skyfire Mobile Browser 4.0 offers a new feature which intelligently suggests related videos based on the content you are browsing – It’s an entirely new way to discover video and live video streams. Watch Flash Videos Save Money while watching video Awesome modern UI The good folks at Skyfire Labs have agreed to gift 5 copies of Skyfire to our readers! For a chance to win, just leave a comment below! Must have a US iTunes account to win. Apple’s rule, not ours! Must also provide a valid email address. Skyfire Labs is available on the iPhone for $2.99 and the iPad for $4.99. Read More

Posted 07/19/2011 at 12:04pm | by J Keirn-Swanson Surprisingly, this is still a big honkin' deal for some people. iOS devices don't do Flash, they haven't ever, and the chances of them doing it in the future is next to nil. Natively, that is. Developers have been trying to crack this nut for some time and mostly, they've succeeded. Skyfire from Skyfire Labs, Inc. was probably the first big splash any browser had with trying to square the Flash circle on the iPhone. They offer two flavors of their popular Flash-enabled browser, so if you're running two devices it could set you back eight dollars total. Not that you couldn't run the iPhone version on your iPad and save a few bucks. If you just want to watch video, save a couple bucks with the iPhone version Skyfire has opted to ditch the less is more ethos of most mobile browsers Read More

By Leanna Lofte, Tuesday, Apr 5, 2011 | Every day, TiPb gets flooded with announcements for new and updated iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps and games. So every day we pick just a few of the most interesting, the most notable, and simply the most awesome to share with you! Zapd: Create high quality, themed websites straight from your iPhone. [Free - iTunes link] Skyfire Web Browser: Watch flash videos! Now available in French, Spanish, Italian, German Japanese, Korean and Portuguese. [$2.99, iPhone - itunes link] [$4.99, iPad - iTunes link] Match Rabbit: Play the classic memory game with your own photos on a beautifully textured wood table. Can now play with your iTunes album artwork! [$0.99 - iTunes link] Cut the Rope: New “Magic Box” level pack and three new achievements. [$0.99 - iTunes link] BeejiveIM: Now with Buddy Pounce, an alert when a buddy comes online. [$9.99 - Read More

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Mar 21, 2011 | Curious how to watch Flash video on your iPad, iPod touch and iPhone? Sure Apple doesn’t and probably won’t even support Adobe’s Flash plugin but guess what — there are a couple of apps for that! You won’t get Flash games or Flash apps, but thanks to some server-side Flash-to-H.264 transcoding, you can get a lot of the video you want on the device you have. And we’ll show you how after the break! If you desperately want to watch Flash video on your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad there are a couple of web browser apps you’ll want to check out. SkyFire is now on version 3.0 and its support for Flash has gotten better with every release. They now boast smoother video playback and because they proxy the content it could save you time and bandwidth (important for those of you Read More

By Jeff Scott on February 16th, 2011 Skyfire are putting their browser replacements on sale for a 48 hour Flash Sale, which started today. You have until noon on Friday to grab either the iPhone or iPad version for $1 off. You may remember the Skyfire browser. The Mobile Safari replacement that allows you to stream Flash content to your iPhone and iPad. They announced recently that the browser saw over 300,000 downloads on the iPhone and iPod Touch in the first two days it was available. The iPad version saw nearly 200,000 downloads in the first two days of availability. To celebrate this, Skyfire are putting their browser replacements on sale for a 48 hour Flash Sale, which started today. You have until noon on Friday to grab either the iPhone or iPad version for $1 off. $2.99 iPhone App - Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad Released: Read More

Welcome back to TUAW TV Live, my weekly live streaming video show where I talk about all things Apple. On today's show, I'll be discussing the intense flow of news from Cupertino early this week, and then move on to the near future -- Macworld Expo 2011. From your Mac or PC, go to the next page by clicking the Read More link at the bottom of this post, and you'll find a livestream viewer and a chat tool. The chat tool allows you to participate by asking questions or making comments. If you're driving somewhere and would like to watch TUAW TV Live while you're stuck in traffic, please don't -- keep your eyes on the road! However, if someone else is doing the driving, you can watch the show on your iPhone and join the chat by downloading the free Ustream Viewing Application. If you're on an iPad, you Read More

TUAW TV Live is back for another hour of discussion, chat, demonstrations and unplanned technical difficulties. Starting at 5 PM ET, I'll be firing up the cameras and studio lights, putting on my Apple logo'd hat and talking about everything that's happened in the world of Apple over the last week or two. Not that anything big has happened... Following that, I'll be talking about ways that you can reduce the amount of paperwork on your desktop by using a few commonly available software tools and some relatively inexpensive hardware. If you're fired with enthusiasm to make your workplace (or home office) paper-free after the show, then consider getting a copy of longtime TidBITS blogger and Mac author Joe Kissell's amazing electronic tome on the topic -- Take Control of Your Paperless Office. Thanks to the wonderful folks at Take Control Books, TUAW readers and TUAW TV Live viewers can get Read More

posted by Joe Rossignol on Saturday, January 1, 2011 at 11:14 am.   Skyfire Web Browser for iPad (iTunes link), $4.99 USD, was finally brought to the iPad on December 22nd, 2010. As many of you probably know, Skyfire for iPhone and iPod Touch has been, and still is, a huge success in the App Store due to its ability to play Flash videos. Now let’s get started. Web browsers are used to browse websites online and Skyfire is no different. But what makes this web browser stand out from the rest of the web browsers available in the App Store is, as mentioned earlier, its ability to play Flash videos (Figure 1). In general, the browser plays Flash videos quite well. It takes about 10-15 seconds to detect and analyze the video and another 15-20 seconds to get it ready for viewing. Some of you may find this long, so Read More

The holidays are still here. You're at home, stuck with the relatives for the next few days, and you'd like to do something fun. Why not join a group of TUAW bloggers for an hour of discussion and laughs? Every Wednesday afternoon I host TUAW TV Live, which (as the name implies) is a live one-hour streaming video show discussing the week's Apple news, demonstrating new software, providing the occasional giveaway and more. You can participate in the show through the Ustream chat tool that appears on the next page. Today's show is going to be a bit of a first for TUAW TV Live, as I'll be hosting a group of my fellow bloggers in a free-for-all discussion of Apple in 2010 and what we expect to see in the next year. If the gods of technology are with us today, there should be several of us chatting together over Read More

Yesterday we suggested twenty apps to download for your new iPhone, but what if you received an iPad for Christmas?  You’ll be needing this list, than!  Here are twenty recommended iPad apps and although there are some repeat apps from the iPhone list, there are plenty of new suggestions too. As before, the first ten should be considered ‘must-haves’, while the second ten depend more on what you want to do with your iPad.  Here we go: For All Users: A Little More Specific: That’s it!  We hope these inspire you to explore what your new iPad can do, as there are so many great apps available.  Don’t forget, there are many alternatives to the ones we’ve mentioned, so don’t be afraid to search the App Store. Also, if you existing iPad owners have a favorite app that you’d recommend for new owners, tell us about it in the comments! Read More

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The highly anticipated SkyFire for iPad is more than just a Flash viewer though, it’s a full pledge web browser that features Popular Content Skyfire button for viewing shared stories from Facebook, as well as Skyfire's Fireplace Feed Reader for RSS feeds, and more. What makes the Skyfire app for iPad special is that users can fully experience Flash videos on a beautiful 9.7 inch iPad screen! Here’s the rundown on features of Skyfire for the iPad: - Play millions of Flash videos – everyday, with no limits! - All-new ‘Skybar’ toolbar gives one-click access to video and related content - Stay in touch: Unique Facebook and Twitter 'Quickview' allows you to see your wall and feeds with one click - Universal ‘Like’: Like ANY page on the internet, with one click. - Fireplace: See only the links shared by Friends. Why? Filter what friends did from what friends shared (which Read More

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Skyfire Web Browser for iPad has hit the App Store today. Skyfire is the browser that enables Flash video on iOS devices by doing the necessary conversion on their servers – and its iPhone version has already been a massive hit in just a few weeks on the store. Now iPad owners who have been eagerly awaiting some Flash support in their browser can celebrate, or at least rush off to the App Store to grab it. Here’s the rundown on features of Skyfire for the iPad: • Play millions of Flash videos – everyday, with no limits!• All-new ‘Skybar’ toolbar gives one-click access to video and related content• Stay in touch: Unique Facebook and Twitter ‘Quickview’ allows you to see your wall and feeds with one click.• Universal ‘Like’: Like ANY page on the internet, with one click.• Fireplace: See only the links shared by Friends. Why? Filter what friends Read More

SkyFire recently let everyone know that their Flash video supporting browser was on its way to the iPad, just as soon as Apple approved it for sale.  This simply had to happen today, as everything App Store related goes on hold until the 29th December from tomorrow; and SkyFire wouldn’t want to miss the Christmas rush. Sure enough, you can now buy SkyFire for your iPad and enjoy the majority of Flash video content on the Internet.  As we saw in the preview video, this version is slightly different from its iPhone-based counterpart, introducing the Skybar toolbar, a universal ‘like’ button, Facebook and Twitter integration and Fireplace, which gathers social networking links into one place. We noted at the time that SkyFire had kept quiet on the price of the iPad app and although we hoped it would be the same as the iPhone version, they’ve seen fit to raise it Read More

The Skyfire app came available for the iPhone back in early November and now it has come available for the iPad. Yup, those feeling the overwhelming desire to watch Flash video on the iPad can now do so—for $4.99. The app is available in the App Store and requires iOS 3.2 or later. Of course, with that ability to watch Flash video there is some limitations, no Hulu and delayed launch times as well as we few others. That said, there are a bunch of other nice features besides such as a private browsing option, a full screen mode, the ability to easily share on social sites such as Facebook and Twitter and more. Hit the download link below and check out the full features and “what you need to know” lists—or just download and begin surfing. Read More

By Andrew Wray, Wednesday, Dec 22, 2010 | After an anxious wait it looks like Skyfire is finally out for the iPad. Just like the iPhone version of Skyfire released in early November, iPad users can tap into the millions of flash videos available online through a clever on-the-fly transcoding process conducted on Skyfire’s servers. In addition to the regular flash-enabling features Skyfire brings to the table, the developers have packed in a ton of great social functionality for you to play with. You can do things like check your Facebook or Twitter news feeds from the bottom toolbar, along with sharing links to a number of social services and others like Read It Later. They’ve also decided to include a universal ‘like’ button for users who want to share what they’re reading (or watching) with friends on Facebook. But they didn’t stop there. Skyfire for iPad has a ‘Fireplace’ button Read More

posted by Trey Trawick on Wednesday, December 22, 2010 at 5:11 pm.   Right on schedule (and in time for the holidays), Skyfire for the iPad has made its way into the App Store. Like its miniature cousin, it features the unique ability to transcode Flash videos into an iOS friendly format, as well as a slew of social features. Plus, $4.99 for the ability to watch The Colbert Report is a small price to pay. FEATURES: Read More