sorry, i'm trying to get this all in one place, organized, and done.

google gears, is it worth it? i have it, but the description worries me a little and i have no idea what it does, never having used it unless it runs in the background somehow

and i have adobe flash player, do i need a program on my computer like applian or vlc player to watch flv files? i guess i was under the impression that adobe flash player enables my computer to play files on the web but not if i download and want to know if i was wrong.

do i need adobe air and flash or is flash part of air? is air useful if i don't actually build or edit website stuff?

and i have a file that is called acrobat.com and is version 1.1.377 what is it?

i swear i'm done now, and i really did set out to ask just the media player and codec questions.