Direct Links to get Adobe Flash Player and AIR

Adobe have changed things, again, and now you can't get the flash players for IE and FireFox (et al.) as easily as you used to if you don't want to use the terrible DLM system they impose on you - which doesn't work with proxies (fantastic job guys).
And what's the point of a download manager for something that's less than 2MB in size? Idiots.

When you go to get the flash player you'll find the link that used to be at the bottom of the install page which gave you the direct link to the .exe for installing has now vanished. You must go to the troubleshooting page instead, and it's near the bottom of that.

Here's the troubleshooting page: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19166.html

But you don't need that necessarily as the following links are likely not to change since they are generic.
Latest Flash player for IE: download
Latest Flash player for FireFox, Chrome, Opera, etc.: download
Latest AIR player: download

Hope that helps someone :)

Here are the links if you want to keep them somewhere:

http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe
http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe
http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/win/download/latest/AdobeAIRInstaller.exe

Hybrid, New Album: Disappear Here

Slightly off the usual topic of my blog - but I am obsessed with the band "Hybrid" (thanks to my friend Dave who originally introduced their music to me) and I have just discovered that they are releasing a new album on 29th March 2010 called "Disappear Here".

The album is available to pre-order on Amazon and there's a really good teaser for it on their site (www.hybridsoundsystem.com).

First impressions... AMAZING! Hints of their original and best quality work with lots of drum and base and their usual thick globules of classical. Fantastic. I can't wait for the release date!