15 Useful Adobe AIR Applications

Published at May 4, 2008   Filed Under Technology, Tools   18 Comments  

Adobe AIR is a platform that allows developers to create applications that run on your desktop. Adobe AIR is a good platform to build desktop apps, these apps work both on windows and mac computers (Linux coming soon). Some of the folks have built useful desktop apps using Adobe AIR, here i am going to [...]

Alert Thingy: FriendFeed Desktop App

Published at April 13, 2008   Filed Under Technology   4 Comments  

Alert Thingy is a Desktop app for friendfeed status updates. Alert Thingy is a Adobe Air app for friendfeed like Twhirl for twitter, which streams updates and allows you to post comments and messages to friendfeed.
Till now i am not an active user of friendfeed but after installing Alert Thingy i am now following [...]

Adobe Media Player

Published at April 10, 2008   Filed Under Technology   1 Comment  

I just had a chance to test Adobe Media Player, it looks awesome. If you didn’t know about Adobe Media Player, it is an Adobe AIR application for viewing video content in a slick interface. Currently only few content providers are listed including CBS, MTV, UMG, PBS.
Adobe Media Player allows you to watch downloaded, [...]

Snippely: Take Notes and Code Snippets

Published at April 1, 2008   Filed Under Tools   2 Comments  

Snippely is a slick Adobe Air application that can save you lot of time by organizing your text and code snippets at one place. Snippely was developed to store code snippets you collected while searching for code all over the net.

Photoshop Express: Adobe Photoshop On Web

Published at March 27, 2008   Filed Under Tools   4 Comments  

Adobe has finally launched much awaited web version of the Photoshop called as Photoshop Express. It is built on Flex and has some nice features but don’t expect all the features of desktop photoshop. There are a lot of players in this space of photo editing on the web (See 13 Online Photo Editors), with [...]

Adobe buzzword is open to public

Published at November 8, 2007   Filed Under Tools   3 Comments  

Buzzword is an impressive web based word processor built on Flash platform and acquired by Adobe recently. There are other tools for creating docs online but buzzword is easy to use than any other.
Using buzzword you can create and documents, add images to the docs, add comments and share with others to collaborate online. [...]

Adobe Flash Player Now Supports HD Video Quality

Published at August 21, 2007   Filed Under Video   1 Comment  

[tag]Adobe[/tag] today announced the latest version of its Adobe Flash Player 9. This new version supports H.264 video support, the same standard used in Blu-Ray and HD6DVD high definition video players. Codenamed Moviestar this update is avialable as a free download from Adobe Labs later today.
According to Adobe this new player also supports High [...]

Adobe to Open Source Flex

Published at April 26, 2007   Filed Under Software, Technology   0 Comments  

Adobe is planning to open source Flex, a development framesork for building Flash and Apollo based applications. Adobe is expecting the open source community will contribute to evolutions of Flex framework. The Flex source code is expected to release under MPL (Mozilla Public License).
Flex is used for building Rich Internet Applications, using framework developers [...]