Adobe has launched Photoshop Express, a free Flex based web application.

Photoshop Express is an image editing software that aids users even with a limited knowledge of photo editing to create special effects to their images, the company noted. The latest Photoshop software allows users to store up to 2GB of images online for free, make edits to their photos, and share them online in creative ways, including downloading and uploading photos from popular social networking sites.

My friend Tom Gonzalez who is the owner of BrightPoint Consulting has decided to contribute one of his custom gauge components to the community under the MIT license. Check it out here and please say thanks to Tom for his contribution.

First let me say that I love my MacBook and am a big supported of Apple. However, after reading the post about Pandora on cnet I am a little concerned. The context of the article is just speculation at this point about how enabling Flash on the iPhone could be a revenue hit to Apple. Pandora allows users to listen to and bookmark music streaming within the browser via the Flash Player. It then allows users to purchase their bookmarked music from either Amazon.com or Apple through iTunes.

The article speculates that if the iPhone or iPod touch had the Flash Player, users would simply go to Pandoa.com and play music from their bookmarks and stations without the need to ever purchase. This seems like a valid concern however if this is truly a reason why Apple is blocking the Flash player, then I have to say I am very disappointed.

Mr. Jobs, don’t play the old games of our friends in Redmond WA, just make it a better experience to continue to purchase music and users will continue to line up with dollars in hand. To hold back technology simply to protect your assets is not something I would expect from Apple.

My publisher tells me that my new AIR book Beginning AIR is now shipping but I haven’t seen one yet. I have some copies of Professional Flex 2 hanging around so here is the deal.

The 1st two people to send me ( rich [at] everythingflex.com ) a picture of the new AIR book in hand will get a free copy of my Flex 2 book.

Unfortunately, this offer is only for my friends in the U.S.

Don’t forget to send me your shipping address.

Steven Gemmen of http://initapp.com/ has just released a new AS3 library for Pounce. The library is being hosted on Google Code which as you know means it is open source. I have also added this to my AS3 libs page. Here is the post by Steven and the link to the code and docs.