Bulk loader is an excellent open source package for managing multiple file loads in AS3. Supporting a wide variety of file types (xml, swfs, images, sounds and more) as well as multiple progress indications (files loaded / total files, weighted percentage and beyond), it’s hard to imagine writing a big, asset heavy project without it.

Crazy sounding, I know (I know!). And a few months ago, I would have told you that it was in fact crazy. But that was before I found baluga.net’s webthumb.

Lee Brimelow, of TheFlashBlog fame, has posted up a neat AIR app that lets you easily download videos from YouTube in their original flv format. Good example of something that really works well for AIR – more often than not, people make AIR apps out of things that should really just be on the web (you need to make that countdown timer into an application? really?). Next steps: convert to quicktime and add to iTunes.