Read our blog about being on tour with Adobe’s AIR Bus Tour.

Mac Edition Radio interviewer Harris Fogel talks to Adobe’s evangelist Julieanne Kost about Lightroom.

Interesting blog by Steven Leavitt on the blurry the lines have come between reporting and advertising.

Here’s a rare sighting of a friendly pack of O’Reilly authors gathered at the Watering Hole (otherwise known as the O’Reilly booth) and the place to be seen and heard at OSCON. The first one to name all these literary lights wins a coupon for a free O’Reilly T Shirt from QOOP.

Standing Room only during the Beautiful Code talk at Powell’s Books in Portland, Oregon.

The O’Reilly Watering Hole at OSCON was the place to be and be seen this week. More conference pictures here.

Intel announced today the open sourcing of its popular software C++ template library that simplifies the development of software applications running in parallel (key to any multicore computer). And O’Reilly is there with it’s all-in-one guide to the software–Intel Threading Building Blocks–written by James Reinders, Intel’s chief evangelist.

Visit ThreadingBuildingBlocks.org for the latest news on today’s announcement.

Adam Hay recently posted a new podcast on Rookie Designer regarding ActionScript, Adobe AIR, Web 2.0, and many other topics. He touches on the new Essential ActionScript 3.0 book, as well as weblogs, YouTube, Flash, and many new tips, tricks, and techniques for building webpages.

Check it out and learn from his experiences and “rookie” expertise.

The First annual Houston Technology Festival (TechFest) takes place at the University Center on the main campus of the University of Houston on Saturday, August 25. For registration, location, and other details check out the official web site.

…as Steve Weiss, one of our O’Reilly editors says. Two particularly nice reviews have come to my attention in the past few days, both for brand-new releases: Colin Moock’s Essential ActionScript 3.0 and Deke McClelland’s Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-on-One.

A brief review of Essential ActionScript 3.0 on Amazon had nothing but praise for Moock’s new release:

“What a joy to read! I’m finally creating projects, instead of reading code samples, like I did in EA2. This is a great reference and teaching tool. If you work with Flash or Flex, this is a “must-have” for your library.”

The rest of the review continues in this vein…

Likewise, Deke’s latest book rakes in the reviews, this one coming from AppleLust.com:

“Loading and playing the almost three hours of Deke McClelland’s training videos is as plain and concise an introduction to each of Photoshop’s tools and techniques as you can get. Then the book takes over after each introductory lesson of video and explains, elaborates, and clarifies each tool and concept. It is a one-on-one, work-at-your-own-pace, set of logically organized and step-by-step procedures…Deke McClelland brought me up to speed on the latest version, CS3, and dropped a lot of personal comments, anecdotes, and insights into the process. I think that both the beginning Photoshop user and the experienced Photoshop devotee will have things to learn from this package.”

Read the rest of the review, including summaries of each chapter, here.

Congressman Ed Markey opens the “iPhone Hearing”

A gorgeous interactive wall of projected animation to promote Adobe’s CS3 products was unveiled in New York City’s Union Square.

According to the New York Times: “As pedestrians walk past the wall, infrared sensors will lock on to the person closest to the wall, who will then be able to control a projected slider button at the bottom of the wall.

As the selected pedestrian continues walking and moves the slider along, the wall will start displaying colorful animation and playing music, effects that will grow or recede at the pace that the person advances or retreats.”

The Adobe Wall

Want to join the CS3 revolution? O’Reilly’s many new titles cover everything you want to know about the new applications in CS3.

O’Reilly Missing Manual editor Pete Meyers tries reading on his new iPhone. Check it out.

David Pogue’s latest lyrics, sung to “My Way:”

“I want to touch that precious screen,
I want to rub the smudges clean,
I want my friends to look and drool,
I want to say, “Look, now I’m cool!”
I stood in line, and I’ll get mine:
I’ll get an iPhone!”

Check out the song; see the video here.

Check David’s iPhone’s tips & trick here.