This news is a bit old, but if you are interested in learning more about the Adobe Integrated Runtime, you should check out Adobe’s on AIR Bus Tour. The tour is an 18 city road show where you can learn how to bring your AJAX or Flex web applications to the desktop. Each event is free to attend and include many very cool sessions. I will be at the event in Vancouver on July 11th, so if you live in the Lower Mainland/Vancouver Island area, I hope to see you there!  This is a very forward-thinking marketing method that Adobe is using and since it’s based around education I really applaud them.
DIY $10 Macro Photo Studio
Strobist has a quick DIY project that will help you create a $10 Macro Photo Studio. All you need is a cardboard box, some white tissue paper, some posterboard and a bright light and soon enough you’ll be taking some great still life photographs. I love photographic tips like this which both allow you to improve your photos and give you new ways to approach subject matter, but which also are so cheap that you almost can’t resist implementing them.
Everybody likes to make use of macro photography at some point–which after all is just a fancy way of saying high-quality close-up photos–and now virtually everyone has the means to accomplish this.