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• 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....

  

• Ooyala Backlot.air

  Ooyala Backlot makes it easy to organize, syndicate and monetize videos from a single platform. It also tracks over 20 different viewing metrics to gain visibility into the performance of your various monetization and syndication channels. Download Ooyala Backlot here....

  

• JSON Viewer.air

  AIR-based JSON viewer by Michael Galpin. Download JsonViewer.air...

  

• SQLite Admin.air

  AIR SQLite Admin by Cristophe Coenraets. You can create and delete databases, perform selection by executing SQL queries, batch operations and more. Data is being smartly cached. Download and install SQLAdmin.air | Get source code (SQLAdmin.zip)...

  

• TV Guide v.1.0 Beta.air

  The name says it for itself: an AIR TV Guide for UK by BoraDev Software. Download AIRTVGuide.air...

  

• Pentagoo.air

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

  

• Yourminis.air

  Yourminis AIR by Goowy Media, Inc. Cute, AIR-based desktop widget manager for your mini widgets. Download Yourminis from the website...

  

• AIRWar.air

  AIRWar by Dean Sanvitale is classic card War game. Download AirWar.zip...

  

• DragNShare.air

  DragNShare by Adobe. Share your files on Google Docs by dragging onto the app window. Manage them and get notifications when they're updated by your colleague. Excellent idea, good implementation. Started using this app already. Download DragNShare.air | Get source...

  

• Password Manager.air

  AIR Password Manager by FrozenModule. - Helps to manage passwords in secure way. - Store all your passwords in one secure place. - Access it with master password. - Multiple user accouns supported. - Secured with Advanced Encruption Standatd (AES)....

  

• Jott Express Client.air

  Don't text and drive! Jott is the safe hands-free solution to send e-mail and text: see the Jott demo (now for USA and Canada). Ready to Jott? Sign Up to use Jott Express...

  

• AgileAgenda.air

  Agile Agenda is the project management tool set for both project manager (creator || maintainer) and developer (resource). Download: AgileAgenda Application | AgileAgenda Developer's Client...

  

• VertabaseTimer.air

  VertabaseTimer is about tracking the time. Download VertabaseTimer v. 0.7...

  

• Bee.air (+source)

  Bee. Desktop blog editor. Integrates WordPress, Flickr and more. Uses a number of JavaScript frameworks: Prototype, script.aculo.us, Spry, TinyMCE, and Walter Zorn's Tooltips for Javascript. Download Bee.air | Get source code Bee.zip...

  

• Arise.air (+source code)

  Arise v. 1.0 Beta ? simple news aggregator by Christian Cantrell. Download Arise.air | Source Code...

  

Adobe® AIR? Applications

• Pownce Desktop Application

  Pownce Desktop application that use Adobe® AIR?. You can send and receive notes either on the website or using a really handy program on your computer. Download Pownce application [click here]. It works in both Windows and on Mac OS X. Below are some screenshots I took. Click image to enlarge. Enjoy.
  
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  2. Pownce Desktop sign in screenshot.
  
  
  
  3. "Homepage" of Pownce Desktop.
  
  
  
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• AOL Music Top 100 Videos

  
  
  Latest desktop widget from AOL Music featuring the top 100 music videos, related artist videos and the other special features. To download AOL Music Top 100 Videos application [click here]. Please note that I'm using Adobe AIR beta 2 as the beta 3 version did not working with this AOL application [click here to download beta 2 version].
  
  Below are some screenshots of this application. Click image to enlarge.
  
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  2. Checking for application update.
  
  
  
  
  
  3. Thumbnail view. Choose videos at the right side.
  
  
  
  4. Video playing.
  
  
  
  5. Last view.
  
  
  
  6. Favorites view.
  
  
  
  7. Share Video.
  
  
  
  8. Snag Video.
  
  
  
  
  
  p/s: running this application eating very much memory. recommended to close the other running programs to make sure your computer did not hang.

• eBay Desktop

  eBay Desktop that use Adobe® AIR?. You can install it online [click here] [still in beta version]. If you having a trouble install it online, try to download and install it manually [click here].
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Below are some screenshots of this eBay Desktop that use Adobe® AIR?. Click the image to enlarge.
  
  1. Sign in using your eBay account.
  
  
  
  2. Homepage of eBay Desktop and some help pages.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  3. Browse the categories.
  
  
  
  4. Find section.
  
  
  
  
  
  5. My Items section
  
  
  
  6. Bid/Buy section.
  
  
  
  7. Feeds section
  
  
  
  8. eBay Desktop setting.
  
  

• Installing Adobe® AIR?

  You can download Adobe® AIR? installer for Windows operating system [clickhere]. Downloaded file in .exe, size 11.0 MB. While for Macintosh users [click here]. Downloaded file in .dmg, size 15.5 MB. Please note that this download is Adobe AIR beta 3 installer. If you have any question, read FAQ [click here].
  
  
  
  
  
  

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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.