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

FlashDevelop

For me ActionScript is the best part of the Flash platform and since the advent of AS3 I have begun to imagine how Pinocchio once felt. I’m a real programmer! But just as Pinocchio had to presumably deal with puberty, girls and self-loathing, real programming brings its own complications in way of abstraction, inheritance and polymorphism. For proper programming you need a proper IDE. The Flash authoring IDE is handy… Read the rest