Here’s a quick AIR app that allows you to easily crop screenshots and generate thumbnails. Handy if you’re regularly generating thumbnails for a website, just like the one below.

To use it you simply capture a screengrab with the Print Screen key or drag an existing image into the app, then within the application you can drag and resize the highlighted area to the selection you want to output… Read the rest

Sound is something I’ve never really bothered too much about, but now Flash has some powerful abilities in this regard, awesomely demonstrated by HobNox’s Audiotool. So, dipping the metaphorical toe in the water, here’s a boshed together visualiser started with some code from Grant Skinner. It doesn’t use much of the data you have access to but the central burst represents left and right channel peaks and the white burst measures the left and right bass levels. Tune from the brilliant Dub FX.