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Adobe Wave: A Wave of Content Right On Your Desktop
At last year's Max conference, a new Adobe technology called Adobe Wave was revealed that demonstrated how web content publishers could easily publish notification to their user's desktops. The Adobe Wave client is built on Adobe AIR allowing users ...
FlairBuilder: An Adobe AIR Based Rapid Prototyping Tool
These days as a designer/developer rapid prototyping has become a key component to getting projects in and out the door much quicker. To this effect, many prototyping tools have surfaced over the last year or so. A new rapid prototyping tool, Fla...
Both Adobe Flash Player and AIR Updated!
Earlier this week, Adobe released an update to both the Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR. Nothing really blowing the socks off with these updates, but whenever we can get our runtime tools updated - it is great thing. So thank you to both teams. ...
JC Panorama Viewer: Panorama Viewing At Its Best
The guys over at Jumpeye, creators of the FlashEff Animation Tool, has created another incredible Flash component called the JC Panorama Viewer. This new Flash component is filling a void in the market for a robust Panoramic viewer. Related posts...
Popular Science Awards Adobe AIR
In the December issue of Popular Science, Adobe AIR was awarded a “best of what’s new 2008”. Adobe AIR applications have continued to amaze. I wonder where they will be at the end of the year. Related posts:Adobe Edge Newsletter for Apr...
Now Boarding: Playing Games On AIR Gets A New Face
With Adobe AIR picking up steam, there are certainly some great applications available however, the few attempts at creating effective mulit-platform games on AIR has been somewhat of non-existent. That is until a new innovative game called Now Board...
Moderator: Taking Control Over Your WordPress Comments
Daniel Dura, a platform evangelist at Adobe, recently released his very useful AIR application called Moderator. Moderator allows WordPess users to modify their comments from the convenience of their desktop....
ActionScript 3 RIA API Guide Updated!
This ActionScript reference for rich Internet application development provides an alphabetical reference for all native ActionScript APIs for the Adobe Flash platform runtimes: Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR-as well as the Adobe Flex framewor...
As3Growl: Adobe AIR Learns To Growl
Mike Chambers reports that the beloved open source Growl notification framework will be able to be leveraged by Adobe AIR applications....
JW Desktop Player 1: Playback FLV, MP3 and MP4 Files
The JW Desktop Player iuses the Adobe AIR Framework to playback FLV, MP3 and MP4 files on your MAC or PC. JW Desktop Player allows you to playback a video by simply dropping it on top of the display....
Creating Fake Receipts Using Adobe AIR
Here is a fun little AIR application that Lee Brimelow made to create fake receipts. You'd might ask why would an application like this would ever be created. Lee actually created this to assist with his daily receipt documentation. For what ever rea...
Introducing SlideRocket: Create Presentations Online
SlideRocket is a Flash-based approach to presentations online. It's the only presentation software that allows you to create stunning presentations, manage them intelligently, share them securely and then measure the results....
Getting Badger to Work For You!
Install badges allow you to create a seamless installation process that installs the needed components for your AIR applications. Many will say that creating one of these badge was tedious and time consuming. To answer those cries Grant Skinn...
Adobe AIR Bible Now Available!
Adobe AIR Bible promises to be a well rounded book on the topic of developing AIR using Flash, Flex, and JavaScript. The AIR Bible will get developers up and running building simple AIR application, then take them through all aspects of the new AP...
Exporting Flash Projects to AIR
Dan Carr, ActionScript developer, shows you how easy it is to work with AIR and Flash. Explore the file structure of an ActionScript 3.0 Flash sample movie and learn how to export it to an AIR application. Another video that aims at demonstrating t...
A Video Overview of the AIR iPhone
Last week I mentioned of a very innovative Adobe AIR application called AIR iPhone. AIR iPhone basically simulates the user interface of the iPhone. It has the capabilities to make calls, receive calls, check voicemail, add contacts and even send v...
A Fully Functional iPhone on Your Desktop
On Your Desktop Imagine, a fully-functional iPhone on your desktop that enables users to make calls, take calls and capture voice messages on their computer. Well, now most of that can now be achieved. Joe Johnston has created the AIR iPhone, a des...
Building Adobe AIR Applications With Flash CS3
Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow shows you how to start an AIR application in Flash CS3. He also shows how to take an existing Flash Project and turn it into an AIR Application. As you watch this video, notice how easy it is to convert your Flash ma...
New AIR Application for Flash and AIR Debugging
Lee Brimelow mentioned of an AIR application that enables enhanced logging for AIR and Flash applications. The application is named Arthropod and allows you to color-code your log messages for easy viewing. A nice alternative to the existing Flash ...
Creating an Adobe AIR Application
In this tutorial, Senior Computer scientist Tom Lane shows how you can use Flex Builder 3 to create a simple Adobe AIR application. This tutorial is very basic and simply gets the point across to Flex/Flash users how easy it is to even create an Adob...
What is Collada?
Collada is an open standard XML schema for exchanging digital assets among various graphics software applications. This file format provides comprehensive encoding of visual scenes including shaders and physics, and even multiple versions of th...
Fun With Adobe AIR
Lee Brimelow’s fun demo of sample desktop applications create with Adobe AIR. Some of the desktop applications created in this demo include: drag and drop video players interactive video screen shot grabber drag and drop media players Interac...
Kevin Lynch and the Adobe AIR Team
Follow Adobe’s Chief Technology Officer Kevin Lynch as he walks the halls of Adobe Headquarters and interviews several core members of the AIR engineering team. Now that AIR has been out for a couple of months, see what some of the member of t...
16 Ways to Use Aviary and Get Amazed
This post is simply an update to a previous post on Aviary, a suite of web-based AIR applications. Aviary is making great strides and is now offering free beta invites to be one of the first to test their new applications. I recently rece...
AIR App of the Week: Alert Thingy
Alert Thingy is one of the the first applications built using the new FriendFeed API. This hit AIR application allows users to access the data from people they follow on FriendFeed with the capability to post new messages directly. Users can basical...
AIR App of the Week: AIRTube
This week's AIR App of the Week is Lee Brimelow's AIRTube. It is a simple AIR application that will extract a video from YouTube by simply entering in the URL of the video. That's it! Simply a nice AIR application that gets the job done. Check it...
101 Adobe AIR Resources - Getting Started
Adobe AIR is growing rapidly in its use and popularity. For those just getting started, it is always nice to get your hands on a list of resources to direct your interest in Adobe AIR into the right direction. Here is a comprehensive list of Adobe A...
Air App of the Week: Traffic Jam
Traffic Jam is a new take on an old game. It gets very challenging, and at some point you might even ask yourself if a particular level is even possible. But I assure you, they all are! You will start thinking outside of the box after a few of the mo...
Adobe Media Player 1.0 Released
Adobe's New Poster AIR Application After some months as a beta download on Adobe Labs, Adobe Media Player (AMP) was released today. You can download it from here. AMP is one of Adobes poster AIR applications and it really shines. You can play back l...
