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Candy AI has built three separate video experiences in addition to its regular chat, and it’s easy to lump them all together as “video generation” without realizing they work very differently. Videos, also labeled Live Action, are clips you generate yourself from a prompt. Shorts are pre-made scenes attached to a character. Episodes are just […]
A few years ago, the phrase “AI companion” usually brought to mind one or two clunky chatbots following obvious scripts. Now, the space is much more crowded. Some apps are made for casual conversations. Others focus heavily on roleplay and deep customization. A few are essentially productivity tools with a personality added on top. New […]
Old Flash animations live inside SWF files, and most computers and browsers can’t play those natively anymore and most computers and browsers can’t play those natively anymore (Adobe discontinued Flash Player back in 2020). Watching one is one problem. Sharing it, posting it somewhere, or archiving it in a format that won’t need special software […]
SWF is the file format Flash content was saved in, back when Flash was how the internet did games, animations, and video. If you just tried double-clicking one and nothing happened, that is normal, not a sign something is broken. Adobe Flash Player does not exist anymore, so your computer has nothing to hand the […]
Adobe officially killed off Flash Player back in December 2020(you can read the full story of how that happened), and it has been actively blocking the plugin from running ever since. That is more than five years ago now, which feels almost impossible to believe if you grew up refreshing Newgrounds after school. Old habits […]
Adobe officially pulled the plug on Flash Player at the end of 2020, and for a while it looked like an entire era of internet culture was about to vanish for good. Thousands of browser games that defined the 2000s and early 2010s — the ones you played during free time in the school computer […]
Remember that little loading bar? The one that crept across a gray screen right before a website suddenly woke up, buttons wiggling, a cartoon character waving at you, some chime playing from your speakers for no real reason. That was Flash doing its thing. At its peak it was sitting on 96% of desktop browsers […]
