Adobe Systems has announced the creation of the first ever "digital museum," which just happens to be dedicated to showcasing digital media. The official name is "Adobe Museum of Digital Media" or "AMDM" for short.

For more details visit: www.adobemuseum.com

Adobe has launched a web page outlining their dedication to providing users of their software and platforms choices.

To quote the site "At Adobe, we believe that the open flow of creativity, ideas, and information should be limited only by the imagination. Innovation thrives when people are free to choose the technologies that enable them to openly express themselves and access information where and when they want. Everyone loses when technological barriers impede the exchange of ideas."

What this all comes down to is Adobe highlighting their commitment to allowing designers and developers the ability to choose which tools they would like to use when creating content for their target audience. In other words, another jab at Apple for making the iPhone platform a closed, proprietary system.

For more details, visit: http://www.adobe.com/choice/

Flex Skin Design Extensions & Flex Component Kit for Flash CS3 downloads:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=flex_skins

Adobe has a free ;poster promotion going on right now. These large posters (2 feet by 3 feet) will cover most walls and show packages and cl es available to Flex developers. (Source: Adobe.com)

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=posters

We have a date set ;for an Adobe ;Flex and Adobe ;AIR infomation / training session scheduled for Thursday, November 30th at 6pm in the DLC. The event will be open to all Purdue students, however space will be limited.

The presentation will discuss emerging Adobe technologies, such as AIR and Flex. During the presentation we will provide a demo/tutorial (at an introductory level) ;regarding how to build an AIR application with Flex and Flash.

For more details check out the group on Facebook: Adobe on Campus - Purdue RIA User Group

We hope to see you there.

As of Spring 2008, I've become an Adobe Student Representative on Purdue's campus. Here are some great resources for Purdue students:

• Free Flex Builder 3 Professional - Education Edition
  www.flexregistration.com
• Coldfusion - Education Edition
  www.cfregistration.com
• Acrobat.com - Adobe Buzzword, Adobe ConnectNow, and more
  www.acrobat.com

We will also have several training and information sessions about Adobe RIA technologies throughout the school year. Stay tuned...