Tag: AIR

Adobe AIR apps are the new hotness. We're seeing more and more pop up every single day. It's looks like the AIR platform is turning into the Facebook Platform on steroids. Why? Because it's cross platform, and what a brilliant move by Adobe on that. You can install an AIR app on Mac or PC in a blink. Not only that, but it runs lightweight as all heck. The latest app that has everyone talking is a ...

Although some of the best-known Adobe AIR apps thus far are Twitter clients, you don't have to be a Twitter freak to get in on the action. In fact, you just have to be hungry for pizza. Pizza Hut has released a desktop pizza-ordering app , and it's built on AIR. If you thought AIR hadn't hit the mainstream yet, this might change your mind. Pizza Hut Shortcut is basically a slicker-looking, easier ...

Adobe has released a public alpha of Adobe AIR for Linux, which means you can now run applications built using the Adobe Integrated Runtime on Windows, Mac, and Linux machines. Adobe AIR is an environment that lets user run online applications offline. For example, here are a few of our favorite AIR applications: Twhirl - Desktop client for Twitter Xdrive Lite - Application for accessing ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/03/08/using-wine-to-install-adobe-air-on-linux/"; Adobe hasn't officially ported Adobe AIR to Linux yet, but Ubuntu Unleashed figured out that you can install AIR using the WINE windows emulation layer for Linux. Installation isn't exactly painless, and when all is said and done, there are a bunch of AIR applications that won't run. But some ...

What a time for 1.0. Hot on the heels of Adobe's official release of AIR version 1.0 comes the 1.0 version of eBay Desktop. The two releases are so close you would think the makers of eBay Desktop planned it (which of course they did). eBay Desktop 1.0 provides a desktop alternative to the eBay website - you can use it to search, browse, bid, keep track of your auctions, and more. And because it ...

With a plethora of other methods to post to the 140 character short message service, why do we need another? Snitter could be why. Yes it takes a download of the Adobe AIR runtime, but what is 9mb's really? Nothing nowadays. Sure it has its good and bad, but give it a shot if you haven't already. DownloadSquad covered it here. Snitter started out as a little project by Jonathan Snook to test out ...

Are you a designer? developer? Like color? Want to do some cool things with Adobe's Kuler application? Now you can. The Adobe Labs project Kuler, is a hosted color picker application that allows for inspiration, creativity and sharing, they now have an API for developers. This new Kuler API allows developers to request RSS feeds of the highest rated or most popular color themes, and incorporating ...

MyMovieMatch from Matchmine is a 'media discovery platform'. What exactly does that mean? They will port together information it generates from you and will spit out some recommendations based on your personal tastes. MyMovieMatch basically helps match up movies when you just cant decide. It gets to know people's likes and dislikes, then scowers its shelves to find the best movie, video or music ...

As we reported earlier today, switching gears from alpha into beta, Adobe has revealed Apollo's true name, AIR. Short for Adobe Integrated Runtime, the framework remains largely the same but gains some new functionality under the hood. Expect to find embedded SQLite support, WebKit HTML rendering, drag & drop support, support for PDF and general improvements to window management and ...

So Apple went and released Safari for Windows. It is interesting why Apple did this. Safari may be faster, as the Royal Steveness claimed, and provides a number of nice features that are not in IE7 or Firefox by default (e.g. Forms auto-fill and resizable text fields) but I am not sure it would get much traction in the long term once the novelty factor has worn off. Steve Jobs also announced that ...