Lil Wayne Released From Prison; Gwyneth Paltrow To Sing ‘Forget You’ On ‘Glee’

Lil Wayne was released after serving eight months of a prison sentence; Gwyneth Paltrow will sing the Cee Lo song “F— You on “Glee”; Brad Pitt is no longer starring in “The Lost City of Z.”

Lil Wayne Release From jail: Lil Wayne was released this morning after serving eight months of a one year prison sentence on illegal gun charges. “Dallas” Writer Dies: Arthur Bernard Lewis, a veteran TV producer who worked on the popular ’80s drama “Dallas,” has died.

Lil Wayne, out of jail, ready to party

Lil Wayne has a reason to party. Lil will head to his crib in Miami, where friends are planning a welcome home blowout hosted by Cash Money Records Sunday night. The location is TBA, but celebs expected include Jay Sean, Drake and Cash Money CEO/rapper Bryan ``Birdman'' Williams, who is planning the shindig.

Skyfire Flash-friendly iPhone app now available, then not

Apple has now approved Skyfire 2.0, the world's first mobile browser for the iPhone and iPod touch that provides users with a full Flash-friendly web experience.

As previously reported on Pocket-lint, the Skyfire app manages to play Flash video by converting Flash into H.264 (a codec for HTML5).

"We are excited to launch in the Apple App Store,” said Skyfire CEO Jeff Glueck.  “Our technology meets a need for consumers who want to get more from their web browsing on iPhones and iPod touches, including videos designed for Flash Player and many other new browsing features". 

As the Skyfire browser is based on the same WebKit core used by Safari, users will still get all the capabilities of Safari plus new features from Skyfire.

UPDATE: Skyfire seems to have been overwhelmed and has pulled the iPhone app from the store. "Skyfire for iPhone has been received with unbelievable enthusiasm. We are working really hard to increase capacity and will be accepting new purchases from the App Store as soon as we can support it.

Within 5 hours, Skyfire for iPhone became the top grossing app, the third highest paid app overall and the top application in the Utilities category. Wow!

Thanks, Robert."

Via: skyfire.com

Skyfire Plays Flash Video on the iPhone, Is Now Available in the App Store

iOS: Skyfire is an alternate web browser for the iPhone that lets you play back Flash videos on your iPhone. It's also a great all-around tabbed web browser.

Apart from all that Flash hullabaloo, Skyfire is also an all-around great alternate browser. Skyfire is a $2 download from the iTunes App Store. If the Flash piece isn't all that important to you, check out the $1 Atomic Browser, our favorite alternate iPhone browser.

Skyfire for iPhone

SkyFire for iPhone pulled from the App Store, and it’s not Apple’s doing

Didn’t get a chance to check out the Flash-friendly-ish SkyFire browser when it went live in the iPhone App Store earlier today? Sorry Charlie, it’s gone — and not because Apple decided to reverse their approval.

Truth be told, the problem SkyFire’s having is a good one: too many users, too fast. As a result, the video quality of any transcoded Flash videos plummeted.

Skyfire pulls iPhone app from App Store due to overloaded servers

Just five hours into availability, high demand on Skyfire servers forced them to pull the Skyfire iOS app from the App Store. 

The app was a standalone Webkit browser. When used to visit a site with Flash video, the app presents a thumbnail. When tapped, the video is transcoded on Skyfire's servers to HTML5 and streamed to the device. Ed. note: Download Squad got a hands-on with the app before the servers turned to molten slag and the app was pulled.