onAIR Report: Hot AIR contest

Rob Hall has (heroically) pulled together a contest!

Digg Graphr:
Colored display of the latest posts to Digg, sized by a weighting algorithm based on number of Diggs. Filterable by categories. Rollover presents some descriptive text of each item. Colors change by age too (darker=older). Customization writes out user prefs to a local file (there's the AIR hook!) Good use of right click menu to go to story on digg or the story's source site. Very cool!

Media Finder:
A five minute app :-) Find local jpg files using the fileIO libraries and preview them. Quick and dirty, only one function in the Flex app.

Eat My Trash:
A goofy little animated character that "eats" files you're throwing away. Uses fileIO to move the file to the trash can. Cute, funny, belches. A definite crowd pleaser ;-)

Rip the Tables:
Drag an mp3 to the speakers, does animated playback. DJ does a little scratch on demand - also a crowd pleaser!

Eat My Trash/Rip the Tables was the winner - Jay took home a Nintendo DS Lite! The other two guys got copies of the Adobe Master Suite. Awesome!