This news.com story details a bold Steve Jobs poke at Flash, Adobe’s ubiquitous web content delivery technology.

Jobs used the Apple shareholders’ meeting to publicly dismiss the the full-blown PC Flash version as “too slow to be useful” on the iPhone. He then went on to describe the mobile version–Flash Lite–as “not capable of being used with the Web.”

That’s an unusual–albeit refreshingly frank–way to talk in public about a business partner. Give Jobs credit for speaking his mind, although I very much doubt Adobe appreciated his candor.

That jolted me into looking at where Flash stands today.

No iPhone Flash Support

Flash didn’t debut on the iPhone, and it looks like it’s not going to be part of what many say is the World’s Best Phone for some time, if ever.

YouTube is Moving Away from Flash

Months ago, in an effort to support the iPhone and AppleTV, YouTube began the massive task of re-encoding its millions of videos in the much-more “open” H.264 standard.

It’s Still Big, Bloaty, Proprietary, and Update Hungry

And resource-hungry: watch your processor activity move up fast when you use it. Adobe/Macromedia (Flash’s former master) had years to make it run fast, but instead they chose to add features, a conundrum that is the result of one of the Laws of Programming: you can have features or light weight, but not both. Flash is a 5MB download.

That’s not to say that right now we’re seeing Flash in decline. Its installed base is absurdly broad. But if it’s not on revolutionary devices like the iPhone, we’re probably seeing the early writing on the wall. And that wall is graced with the likes of RealPlayer, Quark Immedia and other names on it.

[by Silvarios] [taken from Dear lord: iCab 4.0.0 beta!]

Warning, it’s going to take a fair bit of words to get my point across. Here’s the modern web attention span version. iCab 4.0.0 beta has been released to registered iCab users. It is a universal binary and requires Mac OS 10.3.9, while some features require 10.4 or 10.5. Version 4.0 of iCab is a complete rewrite in Cocoa as compared to version 3.0 which was built with Carbon. Version 4.0 uses WebKit and the older versions use the proprietary iCab rendering engine. Here’s a screenshot from the iCab 4.0.0 beta:

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I used it last night and again today. I’m getting a bunch of files back from the otherside.

I emailed PhotoRec author Christophe Grenier asking if it recovered . NEF (Nikon Raw) files. The documentation says that it does, but in the file types listed in the “choose what you want to look for” in the application’s interface, there is seemingly everything but .NEF.

no .NEF choice here

He emailed me within 10 minutes and said that format is a child of .TIF, so just select that. And voila, it started recovering my raw files.

The names of the recovered files are different, but I can live with that.

Now to give myself 100 lashes for letting this whole thing happen in the first place. Note to self: get data re-org projects done in one day, not 30. The longer that window is open, the more likely a fly will come in.

Nathan, thanks for the PhotoRec tip.

My host (Dreamhost) either doesn’t allow me to store drafts/sent mail on the mail server, or I simply can’t find the setting to allow this in their control panel. No worries, I can store drafts locally.

If you see this in Mail.app when composing email, and you use IMAP-style email, here’s the fix.

Preferences -> Accounts -> Mailbox Behaviors -> (uncheck) Store draft messages on the server.

As you can see in the image above this can work for sent mail too.

Obviously this will not store drafts or sent mail on the server. Think carefully about this — if you retrieve email from different Macs/PCs often this may not be the solution for you. This solution works fine for me because I always use the same Mac for email, so if I write a draft it will be stored locally on my hard drive and accessible.

If you’re using a Plesk server for email, see this fix.

That’s right, the Apple Mac browser Safari will be released for Microsoft Windows.

Steve Jobs made it his signature “… one more thing” announcement at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference just 4 minutes ago. More on this later.