I’ve been scouring around for Adobe Air apps worth breaking reviewing, and I must say, I’m coming up a little bit on the side of disappointed. Just looking at the list of over 70 AIR apps at the Adobe AIR marketplace, the choices are looking bleak indeed. A lot of what’s there is either a (IMO) a pointless widget or just another silly interface for Digg, Twitter or Reddit, or simply border on redundancy as opposed to just opening the page in your browser. There are a couple, however, that are beginning to show the capabilities of the platform, like cleVR Stitcher, by Matt Kane at www.clever.com, an applet designed to ’stitch’ together photos into panoramic images.
Also interesting is .merlin, from www.coursevector.com. I know a couple font freaks with thousands of font on their system, and this handy little applet can extract the actual name and organize your font collection into a much more user-friendly library.
Truly starting to show the power of AIR is the NASDAQ Stock Market RIA, (RIA -Rich Internet Application) bringing configurable stock info right to your desktop in a well-designed, attractive interface. While good for the home investor, it’s good for NASDAQ as well, minimizing resource usage as compared to the thousands of ‘F5′ mashes every minute with a web-only interface, keeping their site snappy, and saving on bandwidth costs.
Despite my initial trepidation, I’m beginning to get excited about this. Both Adobe Air and to some degree MS Silverlight have some real potential to do what some companies have been trying to do for ages now - bridge that cavernous gap between your desktop and the web once and for all.
So to all the devs out there, take advantage of what’s looking like the Next Big Thing and give us something to tear up!
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However, my fav thing has got to be Silverlight's Deep Zoom. This is amazing: http://memorabilia.hardrock.com
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But, with your comment in mind, I'll reword the post a bit to make myself clear. Thanks:)
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