Zoho Mail Goes Offline & Mobile [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... Where standards such as IMAP are pretty much guaranteed to work across multiple platforms, clients and services, supporting entire classes of application, such as email. AIR, Gears, ...

Six Ways Lala Can Be an Even Better Music Service
Technologizer — ... areas of hectic keyboard and mouse activity. And browsers inherently lack support for features like effortless keyboard navigation, global shortcuts that work outside of the specific window, and extensive tweaking of the interface. As a result, the fact that Lala only works in the browser might hurt the company in the short run, at least until cloud computing becomes pervasive. Thankfully, the existence of frameworks for developing Rich Internet Applications on the desktop, such as Adobe AIR , gives me hope that Lala could make the move to the desktop relatively easily. Lala ...

Twitter Tools To Turbo Charge Your Microblogging
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... group solely for co-workers, or your real-life friends, and set up a column on TweetDeck to follow just those people. TweetDeck also supports realtime searches. For example, you might set up a column to search all of Twitter for all messages containing your company name. And you can also add a column for "TwitScoop," to see a keyword cloud of the most popular discussion topics on Twitter. TweetDeck is public beta, but it's been public beta for a while and it's stable. It runs on Adobe Air , which supports Windows and the Mac. Air support for Linux is ...

Adobe Announces CoCoMo Platform as a Service
SitePoint — ... a month ago (our coverage), such as native 3D support, and improved text rendering. Perhaps the biggest change in AIR 1.5, though, is that it now incorporates the open source WebKit rendering engine, which means that JavaScript performance has increased by 50%, according to Adobe. Also new in AIR is an improved encrypted database for data security that aimed at meeting the stringent requirements of the enterprise. AIR 1.5 is available today for Windows and Mac on the AIR web site. A Linux version is expected later this year. Flash 10 for Linux ...

Adobe delivers AIR Version 1.5
SEO and Tech Daily — ... You can download AIR 1.5 from the Adobe website here and browse some of the now hundreds of applications now being released on the Adobe AIR platform ...

Adobe to ARM mobile devices with Flash 10
jkOnTheRun — ... in with Freescale, NVIDIA, Samsung and Texas Instruments there, as all of them offer ARM-based chipset solutions. However, Adobe says that the joint technology for Flash 10 on ARM11 and Cortex processors won't be available until the second half of 2009, and that means regardless of smartphone or netbook, we'll be waiting a bit for that seamless experience. While wait, I have to wonder: we've been talking about the browser as our link to the cloud for some time. Should we be giving Adobe AIR a little more emphasis or will it aways be an add-on that we use here and there? ...

Tweetdeck to become the no. 1 Twitter desktop app?
The Next Web — ... For all of you that missed it: TweetDeck is a twitter dashboard, an Adobe AIR (“It’s just the quickest way to go cross-platform”) desktop application that is currently in public beta and uses multiple columns, group functionality and embeds services like ...

Appcelerator Raises $4.1 Million for Open Source RIA Platform
TechCrunch — ... . The money will go primarily towards the development of an open source competitor to Adobe AIR, which enables web developers to create applications that look and function more like desktop programs. ...

Appcelerator launching open source AIR competitor
Open Source — Appcelerator has launched an open source competitor to Adobe’s AIR, called Titanium, aimed at helping developers build Web technology into desktop applications. Appcelerator has also brought in new capital and begun collaborating with SpringSource as it continues to make progress following a move from Atlanta to Mountain View earlier this year. I caught up with CEO Jeff Hainey yesterday, who said “we were able to do more in a day here than in a month from Atlanta,” which is why the company ...

Adobe AIR: Deleting Locally Stored Encrypted Data
louisgray.com — ... or Adobe Air, so I had to learn about those app before deciding on a Twitter app, since most Twitter apps require AIR or Silverlight. See? Confusing. ...

Adobe AIR brings web/desktop apps to Linux
VentureBeat — ... Adobe AIR, a platform for creating applications that cross the barrier between the web and your desktop, is now fully compatible with Linux operating systems. Since AIR applications already work on Windows and Mac computers, this means developers can now build a single application that will run on pretty much every major operating system. ...

Adobe AIR 1.5 for Linux Ships
SitePoint — ... Adobe today is releasing AIR 1.5 for Linux, available for immediate download from their site. AIR is a cross platform runtime that allows web developers to create offline, desktop versions of their web applications. AIR 1.5 is coming to Linux about a month after the Windows and Mac versions shipped. Probably the most exciting thing for developers about AIR 1.5 for Linux is that because of the way AIR works, any applications that were created for the Windows and Mac versions will run on Linux without any necessary changes or recompiling. ...

Remember the Task Puts Remember the Milk in a Stand-Alone Window [Featured Download]
Lifehacker — ... , keep it on your second monitor, or simply have it available by hitting Alt-Tab. Remember the Tray is a free download for all systems, requires the Adobe AIR platform to install and run.

RSS ticker Snackr: the end of productivity
The Next Web — ... Be the first to know. I’m signing for it. Such a beautiful utopia, but oh so dangerous to strive for. Though there are plenty of tools that will help you getting you there. Turn on a sound effect every time you receive an email or tweet. Wear your head set all the time. And…, install an Adobe Air app which keeps you up to date about all the latest articles in your feed selection. Snackr is such a service. After installing it on the Adobe Air platform, importing your OPML file, and placing it in the preferred corner - your ...

Adobe AIR for Linux Delivers (if You Can Get it Installed)
Wired: Epicenter — ... Adobe has taken its Linux version of AIR out of beta with an official 1.5 release for popular Linux distros, which puts Air for Linux on par with its Windows and Mac counterparts. ...

BBC iPlayer Desktop for Mac Now Available
iGadget Life — ... The new version of the BBC iPlayer Desktop launched in Beta today uses Adobe Air meaing that the application is platform netural and will run on Linux and Macs as well as Windows computers. ...

SVG Is The Future Of Application Development
SitePoint — ... Companies like Adobe and Microsoft have each jumped on this bandwagon as well. Adobe’s offering is called AIR and enables developers familiar with Web development technologies such as MXML, ActionScript, and Flash or HTML, CSS and JavaScript to write networked desktop applications. Microsoft has a competing offering called ...

BBC releases revamped iPlayer
Gadgetspy — ... A week ago, the BBC revealed its new version of the iPlayer, the broadcasting giant’s very popular online catch-up TV service. What makes the announcement this week so much more sweeter is that Mac and Linux users can now download versions for their respective systems. For over a year, only a Windows version was available. The new iPlayer Desktop has been programmed using the AIR software from Adobe . Using Adobe’s cross-platform software has allowed for the multi-system application, which I know Mac and Linux users are very thankful for. The new version now loads on ...

Top 100 Products of 2008
ReadWriteWeb — ... Lifestyle Products of 2008 Top 10 Alternative Search Engines of 2008 Top 10 Web Platforms of 2008 Note that seven products made it to more than one of our top 10 lists, so we've noted when that is the case and added some new products that just missed the cut somewhere along the line. ReadWriteWeb's Top 100 Products This list is in alphabetical order, with category noted beside each item. Adobe AIR; Platforms Afrigator; International Amazon Web Services ...

The Best Websites for Kids Packed inside a Browser - Kido’Z
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... is available for all platforms and requires Adobe AIR. The only limitation is that you cannot add your own favorite websites to Kidoz. ...

Font Picker Previews Text Using Your Own Fonts [Featured Download]
Lifehacker — ... you like, and the Clear button to remove the fonts you don't, leaving you with a smaller list of fonts to choose from. If you've ever wondered what font to use in a presentation or logo, this application could be useful, especially for those of us that got stuck with the designer hat at work when it doesn't really fit. Font Picker is a free download for the (Windows/Mac/Linux) Adobe Air platform, or can be run in a browser without installation. If you want to find new fonts using a similar preview method, check out ...

Adobe AIR Is Flying: 100 Million Installations Accounted For
TechCrunch — ... Adobe has announced that they’ve recorded 100 million successful installations of Adobe AIR, the company’s cross-platform runtime environment for RIAs, at the same time boasting that the newest version of Adobe Flash Player (10) was installed on over half of computers worldwide in just the first two months of its ...

Daily Obsession: Adobe Air apps and TweetDeck
Obsessable News Feed — Today's Daily Obsession takes a look at Adobe AIR and TweetDeck, a Twitter client built on Adobe AIR. In today's Daily Obsession, we take a look at Adobe AIR and Adobe AIR-based Twitter client, TweetDeck. If you don't know what Twitter is, make sure you check out our What is Twitter? feature. We also take a quick look at TwitScoop, and Mahalo Daily and This Week in YouTube co-host, Lon Harris, makes a quick virtual appearance on the show. Watch today's Daily Obsession embedded below ...

GeeMail desktop client for Gmail provides offline access
Download Squad — ... is a desktop client for Gmail based on Adobe AIR. In other words, it can run on Windows, Linux, or OS X as long as you have Adobe AIR installed. At its most basic level, GeeMail is a standalone application that you can use to check your email, send, or sort messages without opening a web browser. ...

9 Must-Try Adobe AIR Apps for Better Productivity
Mashable! — ... Adobe AIR came along and changed the application world overnight. Developers could now use their web app knowledge and translate that to an application that ran on a PC, Mac or Linux desktop. For users, such as myself, we all of the sudden had the ability to find desktop apps that we loved, and use them across all of our systems in the exact same way. ...

Share RSS Feeds via AIR with ShareFire
ReadWriteWeb — ... . Besides being platform-independent (courtesy of Adobe Air), it is also completely free and open-source. It was created with article sharing in mind, as its name implies. According to its creators, Christian Cantrell and Dan Koestler, this was a priority. ...

Skimmer Brings a Sleek New Look to Social Browsing
ReadWriteWeb — Skimmer is a design-focused new Adobe AIR application from Minneapolis Ad Agency Fallon. Part of a broader push for the company in revamping its image online, Skimmer is a very functional lifestream aggregator and media browser in its own right. Skimmer pulls feeds from Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, Blogger and YouTube, and allows posting to Twitter, Flickr and YouTube as well.  But focusing on the underpinnings of this application would be doing it an injustice - it's got a handsome face, and that's the ...

TextFlow Gets Online Collaboration Tools
ReadWriteWeb — ... a major update today: online editing and back-end file storage offerings to augment its unique and easy to use Adobe AIR application. Prior to this announcement, TextFlow was limited to only being able to work with local files. ...

TextFlow Gets In-Browser Collaboration [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... TextFlow, an Adobe AIR application that allows you to establish a collaborative document editing workflow quickly and easily, without messing about with servers or larger enterprise solutions. Recently, the folks behind ...

Sideline: Yahoo Releases Desktop Client for Real-Time Twitter Search
ReadWriteWeb — ... on top of Adobe AIR, but it is also a good real-time search client for Twitter in its own right, with a number of interesting advanced search features. ...

Adobe AIR, Flash big hit at Web 2.0 Expo conference
Macworld — ... and AIR technologies, has emerged as an interesting player to watch at this year’s Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Adobe had its hand in a couple announcements concerning big consumer Internet brands at the conference this week. The first concerned ...

OrSiSo Wins Award, Still Confusing
ReadWriteWeb — The Adobe AIR-based social network organization app OrSiSo (Organize, Simplify, Socialize), announced they recently won the Mobile Monday Singapore award, despite not being designed for a mobile phone nor having a mobile-optimized site. The application, which is still in beta, attempts to help you organize all of your various contacts across many different social networks by introducing 4 circles that friends can be assigned to. Sponsor OrSiSo supports several social platforms, including Facebook, ...

Nambu: New Twitter Client Rocks the Mac Desktop
Webmonkey — ... Still, when it comes to Mac-native Twitter clients, Nambu is well ahead of the pack. It has all the right features and hopefully future releases will iron out the bugs. I’d particularly recommended it to Mac users who like TweetDeck, but want a more “Mac-like” application. TweetDeck runs on Adobe’s AIR technology, so it looks and behaves like a desktop app, but its interface uses a visual language closer to what you’d find on the web. Also, AIR apps feel a little more sluggish than their desktop counterparts. Most people won’t notice, but ...

Twitter clients abound; Tweetie for Mac stands out
TechBlog — ... to manage your tweets, you're missing a lot. There have been two areas where Twitter client development has been the most interesting: on the Adobe Air platform , and for Mac OS X. Some of the most popular Twitter programs have been written for Air, including ...

Polaris: Great for Quick Views of Google Analytics Metrics [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... Polaris is free for the single-account version, while a multi-user account will cost $15 per year. It’s based on Adobe AIR, so you’ll have to download that first if you don’t already have it. Once you have Polaris installed, you just use your sign-in for Google Analytics to start tracking site metrics from within the Polaris widget. It automatically creates an icon on your desktop that you can use to pop it up at any time. ...

The New York Times updates its Reader
TechBlog — ... is out. The Microsoft platform has been replaced by one that uses Adobe's AIR , so it can work on Windows, Mac and even Linux systems. While it's still a premium product that costs $14.95 a month, a "lite" version is available for free that lets you read a limited number of stories in specific sections. As with the first version, it attempts to simulate the print edition in an electronic format. Text wraps smoothly around images, and there are inline ads. But the software also adds some interesting twists. For example, the new Times Reader offers a Cover Flow-style browsing ...

NYTimes Reader Shows Graceful Future of Online News
Wired: Epicenter — I read the news today in a whole new way. And I’m betting you will too, soon. Journalism’s grey lady, the New York Times just threw down her cane and sprinted to the forefront of online newspapers with the release of version two of the Times Reader — a downloadable application built on Adobe’s AIR framework. The new version is a lightweight application takes advantage of Adobe’s expertise in print layout to dynamically re-size images and flow text depending on the size of your screen or how ...

Check Out All The Cool New Stuff The New York Times Is Working On
Silicon Alley Insider — ... that we’ve been working on with Adobe, and it’s built on Adobe AIR. And one of the really interesting features of it is that it can reformat and re-lay itself out accordingly depending on what size display it’s in. So if I’m on a screen this big, it will format and lay itself out. If I’m on a screen the size of one of those little notebooks it will, it’ll re-lay itself out that way. It does the same thing on the article level if I want to resize the font, I can go smaller and it reformats itself and fits in that thing.   ...

Joost releases standalone desktop player
Download Squad — ... It probably doesn't come as a surprise that this incarnation is built on Adobe Air. As long as you've got the runtime installed, you'll be enjoying the desktop player in mere moments regardless of your operating system. ...

TimesReader 2.0’s big goof: No Technology section
VentureBeat — ... The reader is built atop Adobe AIR, the Windows / Mac / Linux toolkit that seems to be succeeding where Java failed as a cross-operating-system platform for desktop applications that use the Internet. All you need to know is that on a PC or a Mac, it installs quickly, runs without crashing, and automatically updates itself. ...

FlairBuilder: Wireframing and Prototyping Web Sites [WebWorkerDaily]
GigaOM Network — ... or category-defining product in this space; even solutions such as Adobe’s Creative Suite lack dedicated wireframing or rapid prototyping tools. There are, however, a number of useful smaller options. Late last year, Mike Gunderloy evaluated the popular Balsamiq Mockups and its deliberately sketchy wireframes. I recently discovered FlairBuilder, another up-and-coming wireframing tool which, like Balsamiq, is based on the Adobe AIR platform. While lacking Balsamiq’s cutesy, sketchy style, FlairBuilder ...

Becoming a better blogger, reader and helping me take out the trash: Trimming in Public: Episode 1
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... are the main event website will have an RSS feed for you to keep up on what’s happening. I think I subscribed to this because I wanted to know more about JavaFX, which at the time was adveritisng itself as a competitor in the Rich Internet Application space. Today however, I could give two shits about Rich Internet Applications. I use only one: Twhirl, a Twitter client, and I know a lot of you on Twitter probably use TweetDeck, both are built on Adobe Air. The future is HTML5 based applications and web standards in general. JavaFX may be ...

Adobe AIR Zooms Past 200 Million Installs, And We Have Some Apps To Recommend
TechCrunch — ... We’ll say it right off the bat: there’s a good chance you have a recent version of Adobe Reader installed on your computer, so that probably means you’ve also installed Adobe AIR, the company’s cross-platform runtime environment for RIAs, as well as the Acrobat.com application. You may not even be aware those came bundled, but you still have the option to uninstall both and still keep Adobe Reader. Glad we got that out of the way. ...

Remember Silverlight? Version 3 Launch and Features
ReadWriteWeb — ... limited catalogues. 2. Sketchflow: Expression Studio's SketchFlow allows for rapid user interface prototyping. This means that concepts and projects can evolve seamlessly without the need for lengthy redesigns. Developers are also able to apply their sketches to a 3D plane and add animation and annotations to them. Designers and developers are reporting that Sketchflow cuts down mock up times significantly. 3. Out-of-browser Capabilities: Similar to Adobe's AIR and Mozilla's Prism, Silverlight enables applications to be placed in a ...

Spaz: A Microblogging Client For Your Desktop and Palm Pre
OStatic blogs — If you're in the market for a lightweight, open source microblogging client for the desktop, have a look at Spaz. It's a slick cross-platform app that uses Adobe Air to update your status on Twitter, Identi.ca, and Laconi.ca. Spaz supports multiple themes, event sounds, and user-defined CSS overrides. You can delete updates you've already sent, Favorite your friends' Tweets, and send direct messages or replies to other users. Spaz keeps track of who you follow as well as who follows you, and auto-refreshes to keep you on top of ...

Spaz: A Microblogging Client For Your Desktop and Palm Pre [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — If you're in the market for a lightweight, open source microblogging client for the desktop, have a look at Spaz. It's a slick cross-platform app that uses Adobe Air to update your status on Twitter, Identi.ca, and Laconi.ca. Spaz supports multiple themes, event sounds, and user-defined CSS overrides. You can delete updates you've already sent, Favorite your friends' Tweets, and send direct messages or replies to other users. Spaz keeps track of who you follow as well as who follows you, and ...

Adobe Wave pushes web notifications to your desktop and noms your ram
Download Squad — Filed under: Text, Adobe, Freeware, web 2.0I don't have a problem with Adobe Air. There are a lot of great applications built on it, like TimesReader and Destroy Twitter (which I use to run the DLS Twitter account from time to time). Adobe Wave, on the other hand, leaves me a bit puzzled. Who wants to blow 50 megabytes of ram on an application that only pushes notifications to your desktop from select websites (currently nine with five more sites coming soon)? Who is Wave targeted at? By ...

Open-source 3D DNA origami
MAKE Magazine — ... in the 16 March 2006 Nature cover story Folding DNA to create nanoscale shapes and patterns. In a process that is not yet well-understood, DNA origami structures are typically assembled through a process of heat denaturation followed by gradual cooling. More details about the method can be found in various publications. caDNAno is made for designing DNA origami. caDNAno is open-source software based on the Adobe AIR platform for design of three-dimensional DNA origami nanostructures. ...

Getting Adobe AIR to use the default browser under Ubuntu
Roy Tanck's weblog — ... . At least not in terms of functionality. TweetDeck is based on Adobe’s AIR platform and as a result is quite heavy on resources. But the biggest problem I had with it was getting it to open links in my default browser. It disregarded my setting and used Firefox to open all links. Twitter is far less fun if you need to carefully copy paste every link to a new tab in your browser. As it turns out, the issue is with AIR, not just TweetDeck, and it took quite a while and a lot of help for me to find a working solution. ...

Few notes about W7 in a Viliv X70
Mobility Site — ... To install W7 select the 24 Gb unit, click in advance, and format. When the installation of W7 is done, install the WiFi, reboot and run windows update. Once you have installed the updates then install the touch screen driver. Check the device manager, you will find a device marked with !, update the driver using the files in the folder EC_IO downloaded from Viliv. Keep installing the rest of the software download the Viliv. For CubeUI you will need to download Air from Adobe. Windows 7 Index for the Viliv x70. Average ...

App For The Milk Manages RTM Tasks On Your Desktop [Downloads]
Lifehacker — ... your to-do items immediately, but when you go offline you'll be able to use the cached set of items and they will synchronize again the next time you are online. The application is still a little rough around the edges, and not everything is supported the noticeable lack of smart list support will keep me from using it, but it's a very promising new tool for keeping yourself organized with Remember the Milk . App for the Milk is a free download for all platforms, requires Adobe AIR .

AIR 2.0 will flow to Flip cams, local apps
Macworld — ... , which makes it easier to flip through news articles on a PC screen. AIR can be useful to Flash and Flex developers because it lets them write programs that run outside the browser, on the desktop of any computer with the AIR runtime installed. The technology is only 18 months old, however, and is competing for attention with Microsoft’s Silverlight, Google Gears and others. Adobe hopes to move it forward with a new version that will be released in beta later this year, it said at Adobe Max this week. The software aims to address shortcomings identified by some developers, ...

Adobe/OverDrive e-book deals on hold in at L.A. Public Library over text-to-speech controversy
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... , targeting the Adobe Flash desktop runtime that became Adobe AIR. While the browser-based version of Flash Player has for quite some time included ...

Salesforce.com and Adobe: Applications Enriching The Platfom
ReadWriteWeb — ... has partnered with a host of companies, including Box.net last week and an integration with Cisco earlier this month. Sponsor The partnership with Adobe means that users may create enterprise applications on the Force.com platform. Developers may create applications that are launched through a browser using Adobe Flash technology or on the desktop using Adobe Air. This is intriguing. We've seen a number of consumer application developed ...

AIR 2.0 Coming Soon: Multitouch, Audio Recording, Less Memory
ReadWriteWeb — ... Microblogging clients, media players, news tickers and more built on Adobe's popular Rich Internet App framework AIR will soon become a lot more powerful and efficient. ...

Adobe Releases Flash Player 10.1 And AIR 2.0 – Both Include Multi-touch Support
TechCrunch — A mere week after Adobe Systems reported that it would be shedding nearly 700 employees or 9% of its total worldwide workforce, the company is releasing two highly anticipated new products that have been in the works for a while: Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2.0. Both of the products are being released with a ‘beta’ label at the same time for all 3 major operating systems (Windows, Mac and Linux) and x86-based netbooks, and are available now via Adobe Labs. People who were still hoping for a beta release of the new Flash ...

Adobe Releases Flash Player 10.1 And AIR 2.0 – Both Include Multi-touch Support
CrunchGear — ... and AIR 2.0 . Both of the products are being released with a ‘beta’ label at the same time for all 3 major operating systems (Windows, Mac and Linux) and x86-based netbooks, and are available now via ...

The Myth of Platform-Independent Applications
Technologizer — ... Um, hasn’t Seemsic run on Windows all along? Well, yes, but that’s because it’ s written in Adobe AIR, an application platform that lets programmers write Flash applications that can run outside the browser. (That’s a dumbed-down explanation of AIR, but enough to get the gist across, I hope.) One of the principal selling points of AIR is that it lets developers write one app that runs on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, as Seesmic Desktop does. ...

Monitor Multiple Google Analytics Accounts with TrakkBoard
Search Engine Journal — TrakkBoard is Adobe Air tool allowing to manage multiple Google Analytics account from your desktop. Trakkboard enables you to look at data from different Google Analytics accounts and profiles on your desktop and to compare them with each other without being logged in at Google Analytics. The main benefits of using the desktop utility is the ability to see any important performance indicators of multiple websites at a glance: See multiple report types on one dashboard; Compare data ...