Flex Indonesia: Kumpulan Aplikasi AIR yang Keren

Kumpulan Aplikasi AIR yang Keren

Published Kamis, 12 Februari 2009 by TB Saepul Anwar in AIR

Adobe AIR is a platform that allows developers to create applications that run on your desktop. Adobe AIR is a good platform to build desktop apps, these apps work both on windows and mac computers (Linux coming soon). Some of the folks have built useful desktop apps using Adobe AIR, here i am going to list some of the useful Apps i came across or used at least once. The below mentioned applications are listed in no particular order.

Twhirl: This is my favorite and always runs on my computer (earlier Review). Twhirl supports twitter, pownce, jaiku and friendfeed. Twhirl updates features very frequently so you can rely on this client. It supports tinyurl, snurl and ls.gd for converting links to short urls. Twitpic is also integrated in to Twhirl. This is the best and popular twitter client available.

Alert Thingy: This is also i am using regularly to keep up to date with Friendfeed (earlier review). I have never came across any good Friendfeed client other than Alert Thingy. Twhirl also supports Friendfeed but this one is the best for friendfeed. It also supports twhirl, tinyurl and flickr.

Pownce Desktop Client: If you use Pownce you may check out this, this is the official Pownce client, i prefer Twhirl over this because its support to twitter and others.

Snippely: Snippely (earleir review) is a little app that is quite useful for collecting code snippets across the web. Download,

Kuler desktop: Kuler Desktop is a desktop app for the popular Adobe kuler application that lets you design color themes for your designs. It displays RSS feeds of color themes from Kuler for inspiration. It lets you search color themes and copy hex color values to your clipboard. download

Google Analytics: Most of the bloggers are stat junkies and this is particularly useful for the stat junkies. This app brings Google Analytics to desktop, almost all the features are supported. Download from here. It also supports multiple accounts, set different profiles for each account. The tabbed interface of the application allows you to switch between reports easily. Reports can be exported to PDF, Excel and XML.

AOL Top 100 Videos: This desktop app features top 100 hottest music videos form AOL Music. It allows you to bookmark videos and watch them whenever you want.

XDrive Desktop Lite: Xdrive Desktop Lite is a desktop client for AOL’s Xdrive. Xdrive is a online data storage service from AOL that gives you 5GB of free storage. With Xdrive Desktop lite you can easily manage all your files including photos, music, videos and files in your Xdrive account. It allows you to just drag and drop from your computer.

eBay Desktop: eBay Desktop is a desktop client for accessing eBay listings. You can use this tool to browse, bid, search and jeep track of your eBay auctions.

WebKut: WebKut is a desktop application that lets you to capture the web pages, or parts of the web pages. It provides 3 options to capture the pages, entire page, current view or only a selection.

Klok: “Klok is a personal time tracking application that makes it easy for anyone working with multiple clients, projects or tasks to keep track of their hours. Klok is meant for those of us who want to press a button when we start working and another when we stop. Klok allows entry of time spent in the past as well and also allows for editing time entries. The application features drag and drop, excel export, archive and a collapsed view that stays our of your way.”

Flickr Flipper: This is useful for people who spent lot of time on Flickr it allows you to search for Flickr photos in general or from a specific user. It uses Papervision to display the photos one at a time and even allows you to download the photo to your computer. The limitation is that it only returns up to 100 photos of your search.

Adobe Media Player: allows you to watch downloaded, streamed, or your personal videos stored on your computer. The interface is clean you can find all the content providers from the catalog. Currently only few content providers are listed including CBS, MTV, UMG, PBS. (earlier review)

ShifD: (earlier review) ShifD allows users to shift notes, links and addresses between desktops and mobile devices. You can access ShifD through web interface or through browser bookmarklet or using a desktop application on top of Adobe AIR.

uvLayer: uvLayer (earlier review) is a Adobe AIR application that allows you to watch and share videos with your friends. uvLayer lets share the videos you are watching with your uvLayer friends or Facebook friends.

WebKut is an AIR application that allows you to capture web pages, or parts of them in a very simple way. It provides you 3 capture options: the entire page, the current view, or only a selection. Useful.

The Google Analytics Reporting suite is an Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to the desktop. It uses it’s own custom API to interact with Google and nearly implements all features of Google Analytics.

This is my favorite one! Twhirl supports Twitter and Friendfeed and also cross-post updates to Pownce and Jaiku. Twitpic is also integrated into Twhirl. This is the best and most popular Twitter client available till now.

Klok is a tool intended to be used by individuals, like myself, who have a need to track the time they spend on projects, tasks or anything else for that matter.

ShifD allows users to shift notes, links and addresses between desktops and mobile devices. You can access ShifD through web interface or through browser bookmarklet or using a desktop application.

AirTalkr is a multi platform IM client that connects to Gtalk, MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ as well as to Flickr and YouTube.

Snippage: Easily make desktop widgets out of any site! Wouldn't it be great if you could take pieces of your favorite web sites and put them on your desktop? Things like that auction you've got your eye on, your web mail's inbox, or even that search box you're always using. Well, Snippage lets you do just that.

AgileAgenda is a project scheduling utility which lets project managers enter data about tasks. The app, an Adobe AIR Derby Best in Show winner, dynamically adjusts to the changing conditions of a project. It knows today's date and it will automatically adjust tasks that are or aren't complete based on that. Tasks can be moved, extended, or split as needed. A light table lets you view the tasks, reassign them, change their priority, or change the durations. And like most project scheduling utilities, a GANTT view is available as well. Your data can either be stored locally, or even better, on AgileAgenda's web service. AgileAgenda supports data sharing via XML or PDF exports and/or a web-based view on their web service.

ORA Time and Expense is an application for tracking timesheet tasks and expenses. It can also generate and export reports such as timesheets, expense reports, and invoices. It uses the webcam APIs assist in the filing of expense reports by taking pictures of receipts and including them in the expense reports.

Doomi: Clear'n simple to-do's. Designed to stay out of your way, be easy to use, and look pretty.

AgileAgenda

AgileAgenda is a project scheduling utility which lets project managers enter data about tasks. The app, an Adobe AIR Derby Best in Show winner, dynamically adjusts to the changing conditions of a project. It knows today's date and it will automatically adjust tasks that are or aren't complete based on that. Tasks can be moved, extended, or split as needed. A light table lets you view the tasks, reassign them, change their priority, or change the durations. And like most project scheduling utilities, a GANTT view is available as well. Your data can either be stored locally, or even better, on AgileAgenda's web service. AgileAgenda supports data sharing via XML or PDF exports and/or a web-based view on their web service. Download it here.

RichFLV

RichFLV is an AIR app that lets you edit Flash Video (FLV) files. The app reads FLV metadata - while importing the video, the app outputs the number and types of tags found for video, sound, keyframe (Keyframe Tags), and data (DataTags). With RichFLV, you can read, edit, modify, or delete cuepoints and cut FLV files. You can also use the app as a conversion tool, and convert the FLV files to SWF (Shockwave Flash) format. The sound in the FLV can be converted to an MP3, as well. Although serving a niche audience, this popular app has already been downloaded 654 times from the AIR Marketplace. Download it here.

DeskTube. DeskTube is THE desktop YouTube application. Featuring the ability to search videos, view profiles, post comments, upload videos, and much much more! DeskTube features the ability to post updates to Twitter, and even text message and make phone calls right from your desktop.

EarthBrowser. EarthBrowser is an innovative earth simulation that combines an easy to navigate 3 dimensional globe with real-time weather conditions and 7 day forecasts for thousands of locations worldwide. Live earthquakes, hurricanes, webcams, volcanoes and cloud animations are just some of data that is available in an instant. A great aid to teachers for visualizing earth and space with their students. A must have for anyone who loves to watch the weather.

feedalizr. Post text, images, links and videos. Update your status, reply to messages, comment, watch videos and 'like' posts. Keep up to date with your feeds and friend's online activities.

MiniTask. MiniTask is a FREE, fast and easy-to-use task management application that helps you with organising your daily todos more efficiently. It supports features like drag 'n' drop reorder, alarm timers, printing of pretty task sheets, copying tasks from and to other applications etc.