Even though I already have FP10.1 installed on my Nexus One (one of the many perks of working at Adobe ;-)), I’m very happy to see that we will be releasing a public preview of Flash Player 10.1 for Android on my birthday… eh I mean… at Google I/O on May 19th/20th.

Ever since I switched to the Nexus One as my main phone I’ve been using Flash Player on the Android browser just about every day. I already told you a while ago that I am a news junkie and that I like to keep up with the news wherever I go. When something happens in the world, I usually visit a number of different news sites to see what they have to say. A lot of news outlets use Flash to deliver their videos. With Flash Player 10.1 installed on my device I can just open up a browser window, type in the URL that I am used to browsing to on my desktop machine and then just click on the video which starts playing instantly. No need to (purchase) download and install an app. The same content that I am used to seeing on my desktop machine is just right there.

I can’t wait to see and read your experiences with Flash Player on your mobile device. Google’s Android may be first but RIM, Palm (soon to be HP), Microsoft, Nokia and others will follow soon.

It’s always nice to wake up to some goodies to play with. This morning (depending on where you are obviously) we released beta versions of the next versions of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth on Adobe Labs. These betas should give you some idea of the direction that CS4 is taking.

Notable new features:
New user interface
You’ll see this one across other components of the next version of Creative Suite and I like it very much!

Photoshop Smart Objects
You could already drag and drop PSD files into a Dreamweaver page in CS3 but now these are actual Smart Objects.

Subversion integration
I’m sure some of you will say: “Finally”.

WebKit preview
Dreamweaver now uses WebKit to preview pages in design view. Hoorah! 

More new features on http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/dreamweavercs4/.

Notable new features:
AIR authoring
Make an interactive prototype of your AIR application directly within Fireworks and deploy it as HTML with CSS, Flex or Flash.

Adobe type engine
Fireworks now has the Adobe type engine to produce superior type design in a way that is familiar to Photoshop and Illustrator users.

More new features on http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/fireworkscs4/.
UPDATE: Alan Musselman has an in-depth presentation online where he walks through all the new features Fireworks has to offer.

Notable new features:
Multitrack
This must have been the most requested feature! And yes… Soundbooth is now multitrack!

Matching volume levels
With just one click, Soundbooth analyzes and adjusts the audio levels

More new features on http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/soundboothcs4/.

Go get them at labs.adobe.com! All betas are available for Windows and OSX and will work alongside your CS3 installations. These betas provide you an opportunity to give feedback on the next versions of these applications. If you find a bug or have feedback, make sure you file it on the beta forums.