Baking desktop applications using As3 and Zinc.

Zinc 3.0 is an alternative to turn Flash/Flex applications to full portable desktop applications.

As3 and Zinc 3 is the standard to develop desktop applications (often called widget) in the advertisement industry: it is easy and cost effective.

It is possible to style the window (I had transparent mode).
There is a very interesting library that extends the capabilities of flash.

The Mdm Zinc forum is very helpful.

Handmade Particicle System

I had to develop a particle system in flash which could render more than 20.000 particles.

Check the final solution. That is not perfect, but it is really near to the best you can run on AS3.

The low level implementation throught image processing can render up to 50.000 particles moving.