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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! Read the rest of this entry →

[Ed. Note: I was going to be all cute and try to draw some con­cep­tual box art, but I’ll leave that to some­one with more time. ]

Well, it’s that time of year again. The time for us all to wager on what we think will be unveiled at MAX. A few peo­ple have already weighed in, but the one thing I haven’t seen guessed at yet (prob­a­bly because the like­li­hood is low) is the announce­ment of a Flash Plat­form Suite. I know I’m not the first per­son to think of this, but I haven’t seen it com­mit­ted to paper yet. So I would like to hear the Community’s opin­ion: Flash­ers, Flex­ers, and CFers, what would you want in an Adobe Flash Plat­form Suite if such a thing(s) were to ever come into exis­tence? Prod­ucts like Flex Builder, Cold­Fu­sion and other Flash Plat­form appli­ca­tions are all cur­rently sold sep­a­rately, and we have yet to hear men­tion of  how Flash Cat­a­lyst or Cold­Fu­sion Builder will be pack­aged. This is all in pure fun, of course. We have no idea if any such options will ever become com­mer­cially avail­able. So, with that dis­claimer out of the way, let’s spec­u­late! Read the rest of this entry →