Adobe today released two technology previews for Adobe Flash and Adobe Air. Adobe Flash 10.1 Pre-Release and Adobe Air 2.0 Beta are now both available for download at Adobe Labs. Both applications are available for all supported operating systems (Windows, Mac and Linux) although some of the new features introduced are limited to a specific [...]
Flickr Desktop App Destroy Flickr
Destroy Flickr is the second Adobe Air application that provides Flickr users with capabilities to manager Flickr from the computer desktop. It was one of the recommended applications in the comments of the Zflick Flickr photo viewer review. Destroy Flickr can only be used by Flickr users to manage their own uploaded photos. This limits [...]
ZFlick Adobe Air Flickr Photo Viewer
Flickr is probably the most popular photo hosting website on the Internet in these days. It is therefor no surprise that many users like to view and download photos that are hosted on Flickr and even less surprisingly that many application developers have created browser add-ons, standalone applications, userscripts and other kinds of applications to [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: May 13th, 2009
- Comments: 2
Read The New York Times with Adobe Air
In my limited experience with newspapers, I got the sense that they are not the ones leading the technological revolution. Today I found out that The New York Times has just released an Adobe Air application called The New York Times Reader, for reading their famous newspaper on your desktop. Since “real life”, non-tech companies [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: May 8th, 2009
- Comments: 2
Create your own file extension icons
I absolutely love all kinds of icons, and not long ago I found a very quick way to make my own simple Adobe-Suite-like icons. All you need is Adobe Air, and an app called Air Icon Generator. The app is from the same people who gave us Bookmarked Generator, and works with the same style, [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Apr 7th, 2009
- Comments: 12
Search and download from Flickr using zFlick
The ever so popular Adobe Air platform has given us a lot of useful apps, but few as tastefully done and as handy as this one. zFlick is an application which enables you to search for photos on Flickr, view them, and astonishingly enough, download them via drag and drop.
Once you install the app, you’ll [...]
- Author: Daniel Pataki
- Published: Mar 9th, 2009
- Comments: 2
Check your sites delicious bookmark counts automatically
While looking for something completely different I found a handy little tool called Bookmarked Reporter which can parse your site (or use an XML sitemap) and create a report of the delicious bookmark count for all the sub pages. This is great for blogs with many posts, it makes everything easier to track.
Once you have [...]
