Top 10 Adobe AIR Applications – My Favorites

Published On May 11, 2009
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What is Adobe AIR?

If you haven’t heard of Adobe AIR yet, let me introduce you to this technology provided by Adobe. Adobe AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) is a cross-platform environment that enables you to have your favorite web applications with you all the time. Since applications built for Adobe AIR run on your desktop computer without a web browser, they provide all the convenience of a desktop application. AIR allows existing Flash, Actionscript or HTML and JavaScript code to be used to construct traditional desktop-like programs.

In order to run these applications, you need to first install the Adobe AIR environment in your computer (Just like you install Flash player or JAVA runtimes). You can download the latest version freely here :- Get Adobe AIR

My 10 Favorite Adobe AIR Applications

As I use many of these AIR applications almost everyday, I have made a list of my favorite ones. These are quite handy and I am sure that you will find them useful too. I have made a folder on my desktop where I keep all the shortcuts to my AIR applications. So, here they are :-

fontpicker

  • Font Picker :- If you have too many fonts installed on your computer, it can get very hard when you have to choose the right font type for your projects. This AIR tool shows you all the fonts installed on your computer and helps you choose which one is most suitable for a particular project.

shrinkomatic

  • Shrink O’Matic :- Shrink O’Matic is an AIR application to easily (batch) resize (shrink) images. It handles JPGs, GIFs and PNGs. Simply drag and drop images and they’ll be resized as you wish! Options allow you to choose the output sizes, names and formats.

imagesizer

  • Imagesizer :- ImageSizer is an application built to resize, optimize and rename a batch of jpg images producing a zip file containing the images. ImageSizer also allows users to resize images that are greater than 2880px by 2800px, however the resized images cannot be greater than this size.

pixus

  • Pixus :- This is a measurement tool to measure the screen objects in pixels using both mouse and keyboard control. It also lets you preview your design with skins and presets. Too cool!

colourlovers

  • Desktop Color Finder :- This nifty little app helps you to search colorlovers.com‘s entire database of nearly 1 million named colors and more than 300,00 user created color palettes. Very useful if you are a designer and need to research color schemes. You can even have output based on different object names (just like tags) and the app will give you color themes based on that (for example, the term “forest” will give you all the color schemes related to a forest).

polaris

  • Polaris :- Polaris is one of the first Adobe AIR applications to be built using the recently released Google Analytics API. With this application, you can track your visitors and all other statistics that is provided by Google Analytics right from your desktop. Very convenient indeed!

moderator

  • Moderator :- Moderator is a WordPress Plugin and associated desktop application, built using Adobe AIR, that allows you to view and moderate comments from your desktop. This app lets you view unmoderated comments, accept, delete and spam comments and also shows the Gravatar icons for each comment.

websnapshot

  • WebSnapshot :- The application is simple but effective, type a URL then take a snapshot using one of the three sizing methods; Thumbnail, Browser or fullpage view. The sizes that are used for each setting are configurable via the preferences menu for both scale and actual pixel sizes.

snippely

  • Snippely :- Snippely is a basic text and code organizational tool. Instead of storing bits of code, quick notes, and memos in text files all over your hard drive, this application will let you save and organize “snippets” in one convenient location. What is good about Snippely is that it uses a syntax highlighter so you can have more meaningful looking snippets.

doominow

  • Doominow :- Doominow is a small application that lets you create your own lists of To-Do tasks. The app has been designed from the ground up to stay out of your way and out of your browser. It has all the features you use, and none of the ones you don’t. Create, edit, set reminders, and keep archives of your old tasks.

28 replies on “Top 10 Adobe AIR Applications – My Favorites”

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Rachana Dhabalia Reply

I am very interested in the “digimix” sequencer, but I can’t find out anything about it. The digimix page just has a logo on it now. Does anyone know if it is possible to get a copy of this program, or better yet have access to the source code? I’d love to know how they created this.

Brett Kromkamp Reply

I am developing a combined Adobe Flex and AIR application to manage and organize knowledge, based on topic maps: http://www.quesucede.com/page/show/id/polishedcode. Furthermore, the actual topic map engine was developed with ActionScript 3 and uses SQLite as a backing store (for object graph serialization and de-serialization).

AirApps Reply

Nice Blog. Polaris is a great app. A couple other Air apps you might want to look at are Big Browser and Bookmash. Both save me alot of time and are easy to use.

RDS Reply

I want to create a custom Task Manager in flash air . Is there any class or where should i start from to create this application?

yogesh singh Reply

well i found the material relevent for which i was looking from a long time. Pls do update the air apps list and make me aware of the update if u do any. Actually i m looking some mobile air applications which can work smoothly on my Nokia E-63.

iodinuife Reply

Sweet blog. I never know what I am going to come across next. I think you should do more posting as you have some pretty intelligent stuff to say.

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M. Pence Reply

I am most definitely interested in Polaris & Moderator. Tools that help me understand my blogging as well as make it easier for me are always a plus.

I’ve been liking Adobe AIR a lot and getting great use out of tweetdeck. I’d love to see a Part II to this post someday in the future! Very nice and thanks!

James Reply

The “desktop color finder” would be even better if it had a “color picker”. But it might be useful anyway. Installing it to find out if it is or not.

Thanks for the list.

Abdullah Cetin CAVDAR Reply

Nice list. Thank you. 😀
If you’re using twitter, i recommend TweetDeck (http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/). It’s an Adobe AIR app and i think, it rocks. 🙂

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