A small departure from my usual Photoshop/Lightroom/Photography posts but I have to tell you about Trillix!

The latest version of Eltima Software's Flash Decompiler, dubbed Trillix 3.0, is a powerful and useful tool to have in your Flash arsenal! If you are a Flash developer you may shy away from decompilers. Perhaps you see them as the tool nefarious people use to steal your designs. But wait! Here is a tool that you can really sink your teeth into!

All it takes is a lost computer or a forgotten backup and you will be glad you have this tool. If you can get to your SWF file you can save yourself hours (or days) of work.

The interface is elegant and very reminiscent of Microsoft's Office 2007 interface. You can set this up the way you like to work. If you like to see all of the information at all times the various panels can be locked in place. If they are unlocked then they will gracefully glide in and out of sight as you hover your mouse allowing you to see more of your player area.

There are five main tabs that lead you to the five major working areas of the
program:

• Manage: allows you to manage Flash files, preview them, see their properties, add/remove them from My tasks list, etc.
• Extract: to export every single type of objects which the selected SWF/EXE files consist of into a separate file for further analysis.
• Convert: to convert your SWF files back into FLA.
• Edit: allows you to change the way Flash files are created and edit them on the go without the need to recompile into FLA.
• Search: gives you the unique ability to search the necessary information in ActionScripts used in SWF/EXE files.

In each of these areas you can set a multitude of parameters to yield the result you want. On top of that you can set up batch decompilations!

All in all, Trillix is an excellent tool! Eltima says they are still working on version 3.0 to resolve some minor bugs and glitches. Compared to it's next best competitor SoThink from SourceTec Software it shines! You can download a free trial at Eltima's
site.

Perhaps the biggest complaint I hear when photographers first venture from the comfortable world of JPEG shooting into the unknown territory of RAW is "my pictures just aren't as sharp as when I shot in JPEG! I thought RAW was suppossed to be better?" Better is a moving target. What is better depends greatly upon the circumstances surrounding your shoot. But, if you really want to capture the maximum information your camera can give you and YOU want to make the processing decisions about that information then RAW is the ONLY way to shoot.

A Great Audio Application Gets Even Better!

Adobe Audition 2.0 represents a major upgrade to the product. Going back to its roots in Cool Edit Pro, Adobe has enhanced and improved nearly every aspect of the program. Considered by many to be the best audio editing application around, Adobe has done much to keep Audition well ahead of the competition.

After my recent post about Logitech's NuLooq Navigator I was contacted by the Product Manager. Despite some initial telephone problems we finally managed to connect.

Logitech has made a new and innovative piece of equipment (its NuLooq Navigator) virtually useless by deciding to discontinue the development of ToolDial. Mac users are left with a dead product and Windows users never even got a chance to install it since Logitech abandoned the technology before releasing a Windows version.