Adobe has released Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 today, users can download the latest updates now. The biggest feature of the release is new architecture for hardware accelerated graphics renedering (Stage 3D) which improves the rendering by 1000x times compared to the Flash Player 10 according to ... Read More →
Access Google Web Apps from Desktop with GMDesk
Adobe AIR is a great platform for accessing Web Apps from your desktop, there are some great Adobe AIR applications are out there and the list is growing. Google web apps are so popular that everyone uses at least some of them, the list includes Gmail, Google Docs, Google Reader, Google Calendar, ... Read More →
Batch Download Flickr Photos with Flump
Flump is a Adobe AIR application that lets you download Flickr photos of any Flickr user to your hard drive. Using this app is straightforward, enter the flickr username or ID and specify the location in your hard drive to store photos and start flump. If you don't know your Flickr ID you can get ... Read More →
TokBox Video Chat as Adobe AIR App
Tokbox is a video chat service that allows you to chat with friends over live video. It is browser based app and there is no need to download client software. With Tokbox you can add video chat to your Facebook chat, they have released a Firefox extension to add Tokbox to Facebook chat. Tokbox ... Read More →
TweetDeck: Twitter Desktop Client
TweetDeck is a Twitter client with some useful features. It is an Adobe AIR application which supports groups and has different panes to better categorize tweets. With tweetdeck you can visualize tweets, replies, direct messaged in different panels. This is done using a local database to ... Read More →
Cool CS3 style Icon and Web 2.0 badge Generator
Clockmaker Icon Generator is an Adobe AIR app that lets you generate cool CS3 style icons or Web 2.0 badges. The app is simple to use enter the text you want to appear in icon and select the background color, it will generate the icon automagically. Click on the Create icon to save the icon to ... Read More →
Tumblweed: Adobe AIR App for Tumblr
Tumblweed is a desktop client for Tumblr built on Adobe Air and Flash. It has some cool features and could be very useful in future as this is an alpha version. For those of you who doesn't know tumblr, it is a microblogging service using which you can share links, photos, videos, text etc. You ... Read More →
ReadAir: Google Reader On Your Desktop
If you use Google Reader as your feed reader and wanted a desktop version of it then you should try ReadAir. It is a new adobe AIR application that brings Google Reader to the desktop. It is a early release so don't expect to function fully. It doesn't support keyboard shortcuts and themes yet, ... Read More →
15 Useful Adobe AIR Applications
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 adobe AIR apps using Adobe AIR, here ... Read More →