Adobe Flash: Can’t live with it, can’t live without it, at least for iOS users.
The web-legacy file format, which allows websites to stream videos and play animated games — as well as hog your device memory with annoying rollover ads — has long been at odds with Apple, which steadfastly refuses to support the protocol on its portable devices.
Newer technologies like HTML5 are gaining steam and enabling videos and games to be played on Apple mobile devices, but Flash still makes up a significant portion of the overall Internet, leaving iPhones and iPads out of the loop for major chunks of content.
But for iOS users willing to travel beyond the environs of Safari, there is Puffin, an independent mobile Internet browser for Apple mobile devices, which promises a faster, fuller browsing experience for iPhones and iPads.

What’s the App?

Puffin, developed by CloudMosa for iOS devices and available for $3 or free as a limited two-week trial, is a well-regarded alternative to the Safari browser.
The app is lauded for its speedy loading of pages — it renders tricky JavaScript coding much faster than typical browsers and uses cloud technology to parse out pre-processed Web pages, making for a faster, smoother experience. As a result, it’s able to whittle down data usage, especially on slower connections, an increasingly crucial feature as data plans become more expensive and trickier to manage.
Beyond speed and smoothness, the ability to see and interact with Flash elements offers a fuller mobile experience of the Internet. Puffin users can watch Flash videos, play Flash games, and access Flash content, while still retaining a certain smoothness of experience. As a result, you can listen to streaming audio, watching Flash-rendered TV and movie content and generally have a more multimedia experience on your iOS device. IPad users in particularly will especially appreciate the content, especially Flash games, that Puffin opens up for them.
A “virtual mouse” feature creates a “trackpad” on the screen that users can use just like on laptops to mouseover content and drag-and-drop files. Modern touchscreens have done away with these gestures, but Puffin users can use the virtual mouse to more easily navigate Web-based apps like Gmail.

You’ll Want It If…

If you’re tired of being confined to Safari and want to access more multimedia in particular on your iPhone or iPad, Puffin is a great alternative. Puffin has been around for some time, but recent updates boosted the Flash performance on the browser, making for longer battery life and smoother display. CloudMosa has also added gaming elements to make it worth another look. Similar to the virtual trackpad, a new virtual “gamepad” can simulate arrow keys and buttons, as on a laptop, opening up a whole world of Flash games on the Web. The new gamepad is a bit cramped on the iPhone, but really finds a place on the iPad, making the tablet a much more powerful multimedia device.

It’s Not My Thing, What Else Ya Got?

Speedy and smooth performance as well as broader access to Flash content make Puffin a great deal, especially if you’ve transitioned to using your iPad as your primary digital entertainment device. But the browser isn’t perfect — some Flash games were still sticky in loading. And a mobile world full of Flash also means more ads bombarding you, so the lack of the ability to block ads — common on many full-fledged Web browsers — is glaring.
Some users also wished for a print option. And some, of course, quibble with the $3 price tag. Those looking for viable free alternative to Safari may want to seek out Opera or Chrome, both of which also promise faster page speeds — but both also are riddled with user complaints.


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In almost every financial situation that we deal with on a regular basis, there is the idea of an "account". For example, when you put money into a bank, it is understood to be "your money" and it goes into an account with your name on it. The same thing happens when you contribute to your 401(k) plan at work -- you have an account with your money in it, and if you change employers the money in the account is yours. You also have accounts for your credit card, mortgage, car loan, and so on. In any of these accounts, you add money to the account and take money out of it, and whomever holds the account keeps track of how much you have or you owe.

The Social Security system is nothing like that. In the Social Security system, the money you pay into the system gets immediately paid back out to the people who are currently getting Social Security checks. This arrangement came into being because of the way the system started. In 1935, when Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, there were a lot of people who needed benefits (because of the Great Depression), but there was no money to pay those benefits with. The idea at the time was that people currently working would pay into the system, and their money would immediately go back out in the form of benefit checks. Each generation of retiring workers would get paid by the people currently working, and therefore the system would fund itself forever despite the fact that the system had no money to start with.

This clever idea worked great in 1935 (and for many years after that), but it is going to have a problem in the future for two reasons:

• In 1935, there were many more people paying into the system than those receiving benefits. The ratio of workers to retirees meant that workers did not have to pay much into the system in 1935 to support the retirees (this table shows that up through 1950, only 2% of income (1% employee, 1% employer) was withheld for Social Security, compared to 15.30% (7.65% employee, 7.65% employer) today). In the future, the retirement of millions of baby boomers will hurt the ratio -- there will be so many retired people that the working people will not be able to support them. If the population had grown steadily this would not have been a problem, but there is no good way for the design of the Social Security System to handle a population spike like the baby boomers.
• Many people have become so used to the idea of a 401(k) plan (where your money belongs to you and grows to a large sum over time through investment compounding), that the idea behind the Social Security system becomes hard to swallow. Currently a worker pays 7.65% of his or her gross income into the Social Security system (with a cap at a gross income of around INR 4,379,244.85 ($70,000)), and the employer pays another 7.65% for the worker as well. If you could take that 15.30% of gross income and invest it in a 401(k) plan for the same period of time, it would generate an immense sum of money based on historical returns -- far more than a person with average income (or greater) would get from Social Security. A retirees Social Security benefit is calculated using a complex formula rather than an account balance, because there is no "account" in the traditional sense.

You might have heard that the Social Security system currently takes in more money than it pays out in order to try to handle the baby boomer problem. What happens with the excess money the system collects? The Social Security system buys U.S. Treasury bonds with the surplus. Essentially, the government (in the form of the Social Security Administration) loans the surplus to itself.

In future decades, when it comes time to start drawing on the collected surplus, the government will pay itself back through tax revenue (or additional borrowing). The Social Security system will start cashing in the bonds, and the government will have to make good on them with tax revenue. That sounds weird because it is weird -- Whether or not it will work is a source of significant debate right now. The effect it will have is that it will shift the payment of Social Security benefits over to the government as a whole. The government as a whole, rather than the Social Security system, will have to repay the treasury bonds that the Social Security system will be cashing in. It will certainly be interesting to see what happens!

Here are several interesting links:

• SS FAQ
• SS History
• Nine misconceptions about social security - this article generated lots of debate.
• Social Security Privatization - Privatization proposals also cause debate
• Social Security Calculator -- talks about the formula used to calculate your SS benefit once you retire.

The presidential candidates are clashing over Social Security right now:

• Governor Bush Calls For Voluntary, Personal Savings Accounts -- one of the many proposals for changing the social security system

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