Yesterday we sent out the latest issue of the RIA Buzz Newsletter from Adobe, and received an email from one of the subscribers asking us to mention his RIA Cruise in the next issue of the newsletter. Of course we will, but I couldn't wait that long to blog about it. This is the first RIA cruise that I've heard about, but hopefully not the last.

The cruise leaves Miami on Monday, February 9th and returns on Friday, February 13th. You'll visit 3 cities (on 3 different islands) while on the cruise: Grand Bahama Island, Nassau and Great Stirrup Cay.

Inside rooms start at $345 per person (dbl occupancy) for the 5 day cruise. Balcony rooms are $595.

RIA Adventure.com has all the details, including how to sign up the cruise.

A while ago, Rich Tretola created a Flex application that mimics Apple's Photo Booth application, using the local webcam access with the FlashPlayer. With the release of Apollo, he's ported it to Apollo, that will work on your Windows or Mac desktop.

The application allows you to take photos of yourself, and saves the photos to your local machine, just like Photo Booth. There are 12 effects that are included in the application, including black and white, sepia, blur, glow and more.

Grab the AIR file here. Apollo runtime required to understand that AIR file.