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• CLDesktop.air for Craigslist

  CLDesktop is a good way to browse Craigslist. Setup searches to find the subjects of your interest, save them and then access anytime you need. Results are presented in a visual browser, complete with pictures. CL Desktop is free. Install...

  

• Saffron UML tool will be deployed :)

  Samuel Aglesias says that Saffron UML Tool will be ready soon. So please don't panic. I believe in him. But he is such a teaser!...

  

• Gotcha.air

  Gotcha will let you force your friends' webcams to snap their picture and post it online for the whole world to see. To step in, you need to have a Zannel account ? this service is for streaming your life...

  

• 7 Adobe AIR Apps to Check Out

  Let's take 6 Adobe AIR Apps to Check Out by ReadWriteWeb and add Kuler Desktop to the list. It is by Adobe, and it is great. Kuler is ultimately useful when it comes to choosing the color scheme for anything...

  

• YouTube AIR Widget

  View YouTube videos right from your desktop: Browse through the top rated or favorites videos, or search for videos directly from the widget. The search panel can be minimized / maximized by clicking on the arrow. Well done app!...

  

• Adobe AIR SystemTrayIcon plus BitmapData plus NativeMenu

  Nice example of SystemTray usage in AIR Application....

  

• Weewarify.air

  Weewar AIR Status Notifier ? checks your status on Weewar to see if you have any games waiting for your attention. Download: Weewarify.air...

  

• mooFlair.air

  mooFlair by Patrick Tai. Preview and downwload FLV videos from various RSS like YouTube, LiveVideo, DailyMotion, SpikedHumour and MetaCafe. Creates a search-able library of all downloaded videos with thumbnails preview....

  

• Stomper Scrutinizer Rules

  StomperNet Scrutinizer is a vision simulation browser. Look at how the site visitor eye moves during exploring the web-site. Awesome and not expensive....

  

• Portfolio Viewer.air app

  Portfolio Viewer. Free investment tracking tool. Not replacement of Quicken and Microsoft Money, but offers tracking of stock/fund/cash investments. Get started quickly by importing investments in Quicken/Microsoft Money/Excel formats. Download Portfolio Viewer...

  

• Semi-Official Article on Adobe AIR Security

  Lucas Adamski on Adobe AIR Security: "Adobe requires all applications on Adobe AIR be digitally signed, by either a self-signed or commercial certificate from a trusted Certificate Authority (CA). For the end-user, when an application is signed with a self-signed...

  

• VO Creator.air

  You use Value Object Creator AIR Application to convert database entities to AS3 classes....

  

• Pentagoo.air

  Pentagoo AIR is the Javascript implementation of popular mind-twisting Pentago game by MindTwister. Download pentagoo-0.1.air...

  

• Doughnut-shaped AIR application

  Merhl has just published mind-blowing tutorial and app: Irregular shaped AIR apps and Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Download krispyKreme.air | Right-click on app for source....

  

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• Get Flash Player 9.0.124 to Test Against New Security Model

  As you know, security model for flash player is being changed. To avoid developers’ confusion, Adobe published the article with detailed explanation of new security model. Then Adobe published Flash Player 9.0.124, which supports new model. Download It, Test It and Report In Case Of Bugs.

• Share My Shopping, or Creative Usage Of Flash Video

  Just a post on Techcrunch, but my mind was exploded. The idea is simple: don’t provide video service as something general. You can’t compete with youTube (Google couldn’t, as you probably know). Just Provide Video Service On Topic And You Are Cool. For example, shopping as topic: Ugly and creative business. Grrrrrrrrr.

• Vote For Flash Player Issues, If You Love It

  Adobe made a great step forward and opened its JIRA for voting for Flash Player related bugs, feature requests and other issues. Actually, you can submit your own bug to the JIRA, but it is very and only good practice to browse the bugs database first and make sure you aren’t going to clone some [...]

• Vote for crossdomain.xml for Google APIs and services

  Would you like to access Google APIs and services from your RIA-application? If you would, you would also like to vote for this feature request: Add crossdomain.xml for Google Accounts. To vote, just click the star icon to the right from “Issue 406:” text. You also may write a comment if you wish (this is optional; [...]

• UAWEB 2008 Online Broadcast, Flex Speech starts at 3:15 PM EET (Kiev, Ukraine time)

  First Ukrainian Conference Of Web Developers is being broadcasted. There’s two Flash Platform Speeches: 3:15-3:50 PM EET “RIA in Flex Perspective” by Alexey Zatvornitski and Sergey Kovalev. [ - cofee-break - ] 4:15-4:50 PM EET “Adobe AIR. Desktop applications for web developers” by Evgen Tyutyunnyk. Also, there’s an “Silverlight 2.0 At First Sight” speech by Sergey Baydachnuy tomorrow March [...]

• UAFPUG - Ukrainian Adobe Flash Platform User Group #1 - done!

  Eldar Prilutsky’s Speech, “Event Model in AS3″ Originally uploaded by mrjazz We did it. First official meeting of UAFPUG in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 15 March 2008. Please read the brief reports with a pair of photos from Andriy ‘JabbyPanda’ Panas and Sergey Kovalev (in English :)) Also, there’s some are nice photos of Kharkiv and meeting from [...]

• Ukrainian Adobe Flash Platform User Group ? now with Adobe!

  Great news! Today, Adobe officially welcomed (in Ukrainian) the UAFPUG (Ukrainian Adobe Flash Platform User Group) to the Adobe?s User Group Program, putting the UAFPUG details on the Adobe’s official page. Thank you, Adobe! As UAFPUG, we’re having the next meeting 15 March, 2008 in Kharkiv (with some sponsorship of my company ? GlobablLogic Ukraine). There’s 31 [...]

• Polar Distortion in Flash by Keith Peters

  Like the effect below? See the Keith Peter’s post: how to make polar distortion in plain Flash. Photo: Mangup 2006 :: Holeful Meet, originally uploaded by hyzhak. Prominent job, Keith!

• Flex Development with JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA ? really?

  The most recent announcement in the JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA blog describes the advanced Flex development features available in the IDEA 7.0.3 (last version at the moment, you can download it through via the Early Access Program, Selena project). The IDEA’s Flex development features set includes advanced refactoring, MXML and AS code completions, bottlenecks diagnostics and more [...]

• Flex 3 ? New Cool Apps, But Why They Are Looking So Old?

  I think Flex 3 Release version should have a new default theme for flex applications. Below is explanation, why. Flex 3 is Really Better Than Flex 2, But It Should Be More Evident I’m in love with Flex 3. Using it from beta to beta, I see how it becomes mature, and how Flex apps performance is [...]

• Flex Elections: vote for Flex bugs to help them disappear

  Update: Is this worthy to become a feature request: Old-looking Flex 3 Apps? Matt Chotin makes a great moment for everyone who want to improve our beloved Flex technology and so put more power in the Flash Platform: today is the Flex Elections day! This means you are unbelievably welcome to vote for any of the [...]

• Flickr community doesn?t want Microsoft to acquire Yahoo

  Flickr responses on possible Microsoft + Yahoo affair.

• In MXNA now!

  A lot of warm words to the MXNA team ? English version of Flash Ripper has been added to this excellent resource. It makes me feel more responsible for regular and valuable posting. I’ll do my best to do so.

• Russian Adobe Flash Platform User Group Meeting-2, with Adobe evangelists!

  This was amazing. RAFPUG, or Russian Adobe Flash Platform User Group second meeting has been the best event to start this Flash year with. It took place in Moscow, January 15 2008. More beautiful, two evangelists from Adobe, Andrew Shorten and Enrique Duvos, were talking to the Russian Flash Community there. Moscow was the very [...]

• Alternativa Game flies into 2008 on steroids

  Game named “Alternativa” goes further in development and quality quickly. Anton Volkov and team not just added some features to the project. Guys are really critical about their results and able to make BIG changes in their own 3D game engine. Their recent dynamic BSP-tree implementation is made with aim to optimize 3D scene objects [...]

• Amazing 3D Demo of Alternativa Game

  Just look at it: long-awaited 3D game demo of Alternativa (no Papervision3d). With adjustable textures, lighting, smartly used sprites, talking and moving 3d characters, Lightning and more. Check this out: they have a lot of mind-blowing 3D stuff at their blog.

• Google makes love to Flex with its SearchMash application

  Google rolled out the Flex version of its SearchMash, which was already mentioned not only by Adobeans (Ryan Stewart, Mike Potter, James Ward) but by so popular TechCrunch too. The good recognition of Flash Platform opportunities. I’m thinking about motivation behind Google’s playing with Flex. The strong points of Flex technology (SearchMash is developed in) is [...]

• PureMVC, the meditation framework

  Stop. Relax. Meditate.

• AIRApps.net became O2Apps.com. Wish them a bit of traffic!

  The contest for the best new name for AIRApps is finished. Congrats to the Mr. Mike Hays of SOHOS Network ? he got the Adobe CS3 Master Collection as a prize! He suggested the best new name which is O2apps.com (I shouldn’t have propose O2Apps.net! ) So, AIRApps.net is now O2Apps.com. Go to the [...]

• ADBE & MSFT Evangelists Top List

  I hate it, but it’s true.