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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....

  

• List Of AIR

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Flash The Ripper

• A couple of good Flex improvement ideas

  Constantin Kovalev has posted a good Flex improvement ideas on Adobe’s website — I think they are good to promote: 1. Cover all the Flex Framework with unit tests Dear Adobe! Please extend MXML’s fx:Metadata tag functionality to have possibility to annotate any MXML tag with metatags using preceding fx:Metadata tag. + Promote this idea! [...]

• Flash GAMM Kyiv 2009 ? the registration is opened!

  On December 5-6, 2009 in Kyiv, the third conference of flash game developers, Flash GAMM Kyiv 2009 will fountain to encourage the Flash Games movement again, as it used to to two times before. The conference will be a place where flash game developers and publishing companies from different countries will meet. The topics are [...]

• Darling, am I Flexy today?

  This is a game for you, perfectionist flexer nerds. Go to hackr challenge, and test yourself, whether you know your Flex good: Maybe, you know your Flex too bad, and it’s worth learning more Flex in a week? The Hackr Challenge is the production of our Indian brothers. Namaskar! Truly open-sourced Flexers post their results [...]

• Lost and Found: The Playable Virtual Arcade Games of Soviet Children, Online

  When some of Soviet adults played big and serious Cold War Game, the happy children of U.S.S.R. were spending their time in different way. The culture of arcade machine games was blossoming in both city and country side. To be honest, not every village have got its electronic playground made on military factories, but there [...]

• Call from Flash to Skype is possible now

  This is true: guys from FlaPhone is really making it possible and invite you to test it. Official announcement: FlaPhone: Calls to Skype are now available. Adobe Marketplace now promotes the FlaPhone AIR Application. It seems to be a win start of SIP telephony. If only Adobe will make Mobile Flash Player which will be [...]

• Adobe Flex, Microsoft Silverlight and future of computing

  Kevin Hoyt from Adobe and Sam Stokes from Microsoft will have a debates on technologies, platforms and future today, 12 February 2009, 7:00 PM (PST/GMT +8), in the Bronco Student Center (Ursa Minor) at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. Microsoft and Adobe will demonstrate their evidences of domination. Adobe, who gave the world Photoshop, [...]

• Free issue of Flash & Flex Developers?s Magazine

  To add one item to the reading list: There’s a bunch of great articles from the ones for Beginners to Advanced ones like “AS3/Flex Modularization and Big Projects”, “Visualizing Relational Data Using Graph Theory”, “Developing a Mini-blog Using Flex and PHP” and much more it the free issue of Flash & Flex Developers’s Magazine. You [...]

• Inferiority complex: an easy way to get it

  To get it, look at the “Tanks“, the first game made on the Alternativa3D platform. Fig. 1 (clickable to play). Tanks Battle. Anton Volkov of Altrernativa said “it’s just a prototype” Also, Alternativa3D posted their detailed report about their trip to the Adobe MAX 2008 in Milano, including the second and third parts.

• Flash CS4 Professional Trial and all Adobe CS4 Trials ? download now!

  Now, anyone can try new (and really cool) Flash CS4 Professional in action: Download Flash CS4 Professional Trial. Also, following downloads now available: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 Adobe Contribute CS4 Adobe Fireworks CS4 Adobe Illustrator CS4 Adobe SoundBooth CS4 Adobe AfterEffects CS4 Adobe Premiere CS4 Pro Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Moreover, you [...]

• ?Lights?, new animation from the Capital creators

  Update: due to work reason, author temporarily removed the video from net, but promised to put it back in a week. Please be patient. Do you remember “Capital” music video? Meet the new work from its author. Aliaksei Tserakhau made animation for Lyapis Trubetskoy “Lights” song: Lyapis Trubetskoy “Lights” from Aliaksei Tserakhau on Vimeo. BTW, [...]

• Thank you, Adobe ? Flash Player 10 and Creative Suite 4 now shipping

  Dear Adobe, The most pleasure of my whole computer and web life I’ve got working with your products. Also, I made some money from it and growing. Also, I’ve got a second family, our user group where people do support each other, it’s growing too. Thank you for making all this smart and alive web [...]

• And on the 256th day He created The Endless Loop

  Holiday shutdown, lazybones!

• 5 of 360|Flex Recordings on Adobe Media Player

  Ted Patrick just shared some info on his new “Hyperdrive” project which is a hosted video service for AdobeTV and Adobe Media Player, or just AMP. This video project is for contain app demos, tutorials and conference sessions created by community. Anyone can upload his stuff and share with others. To start with Hyperdrive, Ted [...]

• Flash and Flex Remoting implementations for different platforms

  There’s a lot Flex Remoting solutions for different platforms and platforms and languages. I decided to summarize them in the following list: Java: BlazeDS. Official Adobe open source Flex Remoting solution, proposed for porting to all other platforms. Tutorial: How to use BlazeDS Remoting. .NET: FluorineFx. Works just great (tested by myself). Tutorial: How to [...]

• The only AIR application a man can?t resist to install

  Desktop Keeley – as soon as you’ll see its screen shot, you’ll decide to try it, for sure. Let’s quote the Sun, an distributor of this creative application, where News are being gently mixed with Girls, or vice versa: “Dressed in a stunning range of lingerie, Keeley will be at your beck and call 24/7 [...]

• How to make your first AIR Application using Flash CS3

  This works like magic – now Flash Developers can easily create AIR applications on their own. Lee Brimelow appeared in the Adobe TV show where he has shown the process of creation of the simple AIR application using solely Adobe Flash CS3 IDE. So, here’s the full recording of this show: Short and useful tutorial. [...]

• Parallel People Workflow ? Acrobat.com

  BuzzWord + ConnectNow + 5GB Shared for me at Acrobat.com – it was the happy very first day of Summer’08.It seems like I’ve just thought about something like it and now it’s here. Actually, I was only thirsty for using Connect as replacement for my teleconferencing with clients, but Adobe, it looks like you read [...]

• Google 3D Maps Adobe AIR Application v 0.5

  Here’s the promised update: Google 3D Maps Adobe AIR Application, version 0.5. The main subject of this update is to target the Release Version of the Adobe AIR Runtime – you’ll need it to run this app. Sorry for this long delay.Download Google 3D Maps Adobe AIR App v0.5, source flies (and bugs) are included [...]

• ColdFusion 8 & AJAX & Flex3

  Ashwin Mathew made an online presentation dedicated to developing AJAX Applications in ColdFusion 8 (it was 21st May 2008 at the Bay Area ColdFusion User Group). You can see the full Adobe Connect recording complete with chat and other Connect features here: ColdFusion 8 AJAX by Ashwin Mathew.   Also, there’s article in the Adobe [...]

• Flash Game License and getting sponsorship with a flash game

  If you are a Game Maker, and still not completely sure about how to sell your game(s), then following short article from Lorenz Games is for you: How to Get a Sponsorship with a Flash Game.   It is about how to make your offer to the game portals aside from the slow Flash Game [...]