A really amazing color picker tool from Adobe.

Its interesting to me that Adobe is able to monetize PDF creation, when there are good free alternatives. Acrobat itself is too expensive ($300). I now see they are offering other price points for an online service for PDF creation:

- Free 5 trial (5 documents)
- $10/month
- $100/year

Quoted: Create Adobe PDF Online is the easy way to create professional-looking PDF documents. Offered by Adobe Systems, the inventors of the PDF file format.

Quoted: This book provides a quick introduction to developing applications for the public Beta 1 build of the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR). AIR, which prior to the Beta was referred to by its code name, Apollo, is a new cross-platform desktop application runtime being developed by Adobe. While Adobe AIR allows both Flash- and HTML-based application development, this book focuses on building AIR applications using HTML and JavaScript.

The Seattle Flex Users Group. They meet at Adobe's headquarters (sounds sweet).

Quoted: Seattle Adobe Flex User Group

Adobe's new online photo editing application. It's very slick, using Flash (Flex) as the client-side platform. If is fast and feels like a desktop application.

Free Trial of Adobe Connect for 15 days - I'll try this out and compare with our webex experience.

Quoted: Adobe Acrobat Connect - communicate and collaborate instantly through interactive online personal meetings.

Adobe Connect is $39.95 for single user (the "Professional" version in $375/mo for 5 users).

WebEx works well for Windows clients - but does not support Linux - and I've heard problems from Mac users. WebEx is about $50/month for a single user.

High performance graphics programming language to be soon available across all Adobe imaging products. Code name Hydra.

This just happened to me - Photoshop would hang on booting. Right after displaying "Reading Text Global Resources...Done", photoshop just freezes. If you click away from the window and back, the dialog gets erased to be all white. No CPU is being used and nothing will get it to load.

The solution: start Photoshop and hold down SHIFT-CTRL-ALT. You will then be asked if you want to delete your preferences file. Say yes. Boots fine now!

What a terrible BUG on Adobe's part (I'm using 8.0 - Photoshop CS).