Adobe AIR
// December 15th, 2007 // 1 Comment » // Applications, Flash, development
Adobe has released it’s new development tool AIR (formally called Apollo) which is in Beta as we speak. This little app allows you to create rich desktop applications such as widgets or gadgets. It’s a tool that blurrs the boundaries between the desktop and the web.
Adobe AIR allows you to use your existing Flash, HTML, CSS, and AJAX skills to create packages that can run from your desktop and the web. It can also read and write files on the computer’s OS directory structure. This is something Flash could not do on it’s own as it could only communicate with the web and not the directory. Using AIR creates a catalyst to merge the two together enabling us to create some interesting mash-ups all without learning a new language or new tools just your existing ones.
I am currently working on an app using AIR that will be able to pull in RSS feeds from different websites to your desktop. I hope to make this customizable so that you can pick and choose what feeds you want, and it will be available for both Mac and PC. As soon as it is ready, I will make it available to all to download from this site.
Visit: Adobe Labs
