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Well, it's only been out for a few hours, but already I've been putting Google's new Web browser Chrome through the paces. Want to see my first impressions? Well then keep reading!

The installation process was very quick and painless. It asked about importing from IE (for some reason it didn't recognize/ask about Flock, which is a variant of Firefox) and asked if I wanted to keep Google as the default search engine. All of the passwords and account info I had ported over seamlessly from IE.

It's once again that time of year - time to register for MAX! Why go to MAX, you ask? Well, that's easy enough; just watch the video with yours truly: http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/august2008/video/index.html

Okay, after a couple of days of playing around with the new iPhone apps, here are my picks for the best and worst ones. So far, my picks are limited to free ones, but I will also mention a few pay ones that look tempting enough to plunk down some coin for soon.

Favorites so far:

AirMe. While it's always been possible to take a picture with the camera and e-mail it to update it to Flickr, this is the easiest way to snap pics and have them automagically appear.

I know I've seen a lot of horror stories on the Web in the past few days regarding the latest update to the iPhone; people couldn't download the updates, couldn't get new phones, couldn't activate, MobileMe was sluggish, the iPhone drank the last beer in the fridge, etc. But somehow I managed to have a pleasant experience, so I figured I'd share my non-horror tale.

It was the best of times, it was... the bestest of times! I am back from the annual Adobe Community Leader Summit out in San Jose, CA - pictures will be posted soon (and I'll link to some other sets on our facebook account). A splendid time was had by all, although there were some scary moments when it seemed that we might run out of Diet Coke. They did end up exceeding the Diet Coke budget :)

Just in case you didn't know (heh), our group is on Facebook and Upcoming. Stay in the loop!

On facebook
On upcoming.org

We'll be adding more services soon as well!

Since I haven't had a chance to update this in a while, I figured that rather than trying to make a whole bunch of little posts, I'd make one post with a bunch of the cool things I've wanted to share lately.

As you may have heard, Adobe has announced the release of Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR 1.0. Now that the cat is out of the bag, this will be the focus of our Feb. 25th special meeting! Adobe is sponsoring this meeting with food, giveaways and a raffle copy of Adobe Flex Professional.

Flex 3 is a feature-packed release, adding new UI components like the advanced datagrid and improved CSS capabilities; powerful tooling additions like refactoring; and extensive testing tools including memory and performance profiling, plus the addition of the automated testing framework to Flex Builder.

There are two kinds of Mac users; those who jump on a new OS release the second it's available, and those who decide to let the others test the waters for them before jumping in. Me, I've always been in the day-it-comes-out camp. So for the benefit of those who are on the sidelines, here is my initial review; a longer, more in-depth review will come soon.