Pamelia Kurstin plays a musical instrument called the theremin. ( Pronounced: th-AIR-e’men ) Adobe needs to hook up with her for their next AIR tour. If I have to explain why then please exit the blog through the back door. :-)

And if you were at Grant Skinner’s 2006 presentation at FlashForward in Seattle then you’re probably thinking the same thing I am: these two need to put on a show together.

I’m creating an Apollo app that loads a SWF (Player version 8) that has a ComboBox in it. When I run the Apollo app and select the ComboBox it opens as you would expect but when you select one of the labels it reports the wrong selection - most of the time. The selection is always something below the selection that you clicked on, or occasionally it gets it right.

Here’s the Apollo code:

And you can download the dropDown files here.

NOTE: check the date of this post. It’s an April Fools joke. I had no idea this article was so popular until I checked my site stats. My apologizes to anyone I might have misled. Anyhow, I still think it’s pretty funny.

An anonymous source from Adobe has confirmed that they have a final release name for the Apollo project. It’s going to be called Adobe Desktop Presentation Foundation, or Adobe DPF for short.

He said that they wanted to go with a name that was more evocative but since this product competes with Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation they decided to go with a product name that was long and bland.

He also confirmed that a lite version of Apollo will be released for cell phones early next year. It will be called Adobe DPF/e. He said that the ‘e’ doesn’t really stand for anything. It’s just there to confuse people.