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I con­firmed with Elad Elrom ear­lier today that I have been added to the speak­ers list for the Flash and the City con­fer­ence in New York City, May 14–16, 2010! Have you seen this speaker list?!  Take a minute, and look at it. The peo­ple on this list are some of the peo­ple who lit­er­ally built our indus­try and the Flash com­mu­nity. And now, I am blessed enough to share a podium with the likes of such Flash great­ness. I still can’t believe it. GIGANTIC thanks goes to Elad and Jesse Free­man (a.k.a The Flash Bum) for putting together an absolutely elite list of speak­ers and event. Some­body pinch me! [Ed. note: Don’t actu­ally pinch me, I bruise eas­ily ]
I’m lis­ten­ing. Go on…

So I don’t think I need to tell you that some unbe­liev­ably sexy demos of incred­i­ble new ver­sions of our favorite pro­grams were shown off at MAX. Most peo­ple were beyond blown away by the Flash CS5 pub­lish­ing to iPhone work­flow announce­ment, myself included. This is an absolutely bril­liant move by Adobe and it is sig­nif­i­cant for 2 rea­sons. I’m lis­ten­ing. Go on…

Some­how with iPhones and Flash and CS5 and John Mayer, the release of the Com­mu­nity Help Client was over­shad­owed. This is way under­rated, and a much more sig­nif­i­cant announce­ment than it may seem. Many prob­lems peo­ple had with CS4 was the fact that the help sys­tem was only avail­able online and didn’t open natively inside each app. With CHC, comes what I see as a near-perfect solu­tion. CHC is an AIR app on Adobe Labs that checks for updates based on your pref­er­ences and stores your apps’ doc­u­men­ta­tion on your local machine! I’m lis­ten­ing. Go on…

While doing research for my Insid­e­RIA post, I came across a bevy of awe-inspiring exam­ples of multi-touch. Note that not all of these are Flash-based, but still amaz­ing nonethe­less. I’ve tried to cat­e­go­rize them as best I could, though admit­tedly I have been through so many, that I may have mis­la­beled or improp­erly linked some. Don’t shoot me if  I did! I’m lis­ten­ing. Go on…