Twhirl: THE Social Software Client
The Adobe AIR application Twhirl has proved its self-worth as the preferred software client for social streaming.
Social streaming is catching up. Who could have imagined that answering a simple question like “What are you doing?” would become such a wonderful alternative to the traditional social networking (which in itself is not exactly traditional)? This has […]
Adobe on Youtube
Ever since videoblogging became a rage, we have seen various kinds of official youtube channels coming up from the Royal Monarchy to Paris Hilton to FIFA 2008. Corporations whose modern marketing techniques now involve reaching people by helping and alluring them with inside information didn't take long to catch up with the trend.
I am not [...]
Adobe AIR for Total Virtualization Management
This is a larger step for Adobe AIR in entering "serious" applications. With the sudden outbreak and rising necessity for virtualization, several companies, big and small, are sweating to go virtual and also adapt their own technologies to work in the virtual environments. While VMWare and Microsoft are battling to provide virtualization management capabilities BlueBear [...]
Advanced Data Visualization for Adobe Flex & AIR
Flex and AIR on their own are great for visual appeal. Elixir is a formidable package built on top of Adobe platform of Flex and AIR for creating sophisticated, interactive user displays. New in ILOG's large arsenal of graphics tools, Elixir can help make your rich apps richer with its collection of innovative and interactive [...]
MeeBone: How One Dude Learnt AS and FLex
Meebo has been a blessing to all the chatterboxes in the corporate world. Still, there might be some who miss chatting through a messenger client, unsatisfied by a large window of a web browser. MeeBone can be their simple solution.
I only say that this AIR implementation of Meebo "can be" a solution because it is [...]
Adobe or Microsoft?
RIA technologies over the past few years have been getting increasingly competitive, thereby introducing more and more features much to our delight.
Yesterday, it was announced that the increasingly popular online game Line Rider would be migrating from Flash to Silverlight. A very encouraging announcement for Silverlight. This could influence other game developers in the world.
And [...]
Passpack DESKTOP With Adobe AIR
Adobe AIR is slowly becoming a choice even for "serious" applications. Passpack, the online password manager, has recently launched two offline versions — Passpack DESKTOP and Passpack Offline. I have only tried to use the former because it is built with AIR. The other version is essentially the same wrt features.
There are two things that [...]
Snackr: A Flex RSS Ticker
Snackr is a simple RSS ticker built using Adobe AIR 1.0 and Adobe Flex 3. It pulls random posts from RSS feeds and scrolls them across the desktop. As it tries to store and update its FeedDatabase whenever it is opened, it can be run even offline.
The constant scrolling on the desktop can be annoying, [...]
Wallowr Now on AIR
When Wallowr started last year it didn't seem very different from FriendFeed, Socialthing or even Google Reader. But by launching two products, and recently winning two prizes in the RJI-Adobe AIR student competition for one of the products, the team ensures all our attention.
Wallowr.AIR is a desktop application that makes our lives easy when it [...]
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