Our very own A.J. Wood is trying to convince the powers that be to let him teach a class as Photoshop World. We all know from personal experience what a great (and entertaining) teacher A.J. is. So let's lend a hand. Go read his blog post at http://www.ajwood.com/2009/04/08/i-need-psw-love/ and leave a comment. Then digg the article. If you are a NAPP member use the member contact form and let them know you'd like to hear A.J. teach at Photoshop World!

Previously, as an avid user of the product Zinc (formerly Flash Studio); produced by Multi Dimensional Media in the UK, I was skeptical when Adobe announced Adobe AIR. Of course I was already a tiny bit bias to the SWF2EXE programs that simply work as a third party conversion tool for Flash and Flex. You simply build your desktop app right in Flash or Flex, then you just run the SWF file through the SWF2EXE utility and wallah, you now have a functional desktop application ready to use. Zinc always had a large number of features it could add to your applications and for that I was regularly impressed.