Just saw a link to http://onair.adobe.com/ and it looks like the adobe peeps are going to take a nice relaxing roady round the states after working so hard on the flex 3 beta release. Imagine This bus pimped out AIR Style? "The on AIR Bus Tour is a 18 City tour over the next couple of months across North America.

Ted Patrick is twitering out loud http://twitter.com/adobeted, I did the math: "25200 seconds left about 3 hours ago from web" or "0.000570397764 years remaining! 35 minutes ago from web" Here in NZ that makes it roughly about 4pm. Wonder whats going to happen Got the heads up Via http://www.pbell.com/index.

-EDIT - well APollo will have SQLLite (see davids comments below), which makes this post kinda pointless now, but at least you know First off Google has released their plugin Google Gears which allows people to use the web browser offline. So now you can use gmail offline, google reader etc. The big vision for Google apps comes into sight, and surely Microsoft is begining to worry about things. Anyway how does this relate to Apollo?

Totally out of the blue Microsoft has released a multi-touch display and operating system called Surface. My guess is its A vist/WPF mix that can register multiple points or cursors. I have heard/read several rumors around the web that apple was going to annouce something similar at the apple developers conference next month- time will tell with that one. It all seems to have stemmed from that original video that did the rounds a year or so ago, showing Jeff Han's research.

Just saw this VIA Wildwinter blog. I seems as if maclema.com has been busy making an AS3 MySql driver to use in both flex and Flash 9 projects. Its very early days, but a beginning is a good point to start from, especially if they plan to support SQLLite. Then it possibly could become a viable solution for many Apollo applications running on a desktop. "In Sept. 06 I set out to show someone that is was possible to connect to a mySQL server from actionscript.