The IT Nerd

Well, I’ve come to the end of this experiment of removing Adobe Flash from my system over the last month. As promised, I downloaded a copy of Google Chrome and found that the issues with the Belkin NetCam site that I described in my previous post went away. That’s because Chrome has the Flash player […]

So I am mid way through my attempt to live without Adobe Flash. I described how and why I removed it and answered some questions that people had. But the real question is, how am I surviving without Flash? Just fine thanks. I’ve been using my MacBook Pro without an issue. My surfing activities haven’t […]

I’ve gotten a lot of reaction to my post about punting Adobe Flash from my system over the month of February to see what happens. One of those was from a reader who was concerned about his porn watching habits: Hello IT Nerd. Seeing as you’re a guy, I figured that you’d be able to tell […]

Frequent readers of this blog will know that I am no fan of Adobe Flash. It’s a CPU hog, a battery hog, and a security threat given how often you have to update it to avoid getting exploited by something. The last time I had a piece of software that was this much of a […]

Up until now, life without Flash was perfect. In part 1, I found that the performance and battery life of my MacBook Pro improved by removing it. Part 2 had me answering questions about porn and surveys and finding that they still worked with a couple of exceptions. And part 3 had me experiencing no […]