15 New Adobe AIR Applications For Designers & Developers

27 Aug 2009

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Adobe AIR has clearly became the standard on creating desktop applications for web developers.

Besides the offline applications, it can combine the richness of web with the simplicity of desktop & offer very functional tools.

At WRD, there were 2 other posts that had shared web designer/developer focused Adobe AIR apps.:

Since then, various new tools are built & here are 15 new Adobe AIR applications for designers & developers:

colrful

colrful is a beautiful application that enables you to make color-based searches in Flickr. Any number of colors can be mentioned, they can be viewed as thumbnails/originals & downloaded.

Another feature is the ability to mention an image URL & get similar images from Flickr.

Polaris

The application is a desktop interface for Google Analytics (free version works with 1 website).

It offers most of the features of Google Analytics including visits, pageviews, reports, Google Maps report & more..

Big Browser

Big Browser is an application which can display multiple websites in a single window.

It is functional when comparing 2 websites or keeping an eye on multiple pages.

Boks

This is an Adobe AIR UI for Blueprint CSS framework. It handles grid configuration, baseline rhythm CSS (with or without compression, grid.png export, HTML layout and more.

SEO Analyzer

SEO Analyzer checks pageranks, analyzes links & keywords with a very easy-to-use interface.

PrintScreenshot

This Adobe AIR application handles the process after taking a screenshot. You can paste the screenshot, select the areas to crop & choose the image to be saved or e-mailed.

SWF To Animated GIF

This application quickly converts SWFs to animated GIFs by selecting certain points of the animation which is very handy specially when the .FLA sources are not available.

Broadchoice Workspace

This is a payed application with a free version that provides an impressive workspace where users can share notes, tasks, files & communicate with each other.

It can also be reached via mobile phones.

The SQLite Sorcerer

An SQLite admin tool built with Adobe AIR which offers most of the functionality a database manager needs.

Besides standard features like creating dbs, tables, etc, it has nice options like:

comparing the structure of 2 databases
changing all attributes of fields is allowed, including default values
filtering data using keyword or regular expression
& more..

Run!

Run! is a “query runner” tool for Adobe AIR developers that use AIR’s local SQL database (SQLite) functionality.

When I’m developing an application that uses a database, I find it much easier to get a SQL statement working in isolation rather than trying to write it and test it within the application source code. That is the basic idea of Run!.

SimpleTimer 2

This is an easy to use time tracker application where projects/tasks can be added & reports can be seen in a calendar-view or exported as CSV.

ParseForGo

ParseForGo is a PHP editor that comes with an internal editor. With an internal function-dictionary, double clicking a function displays details of it.

BlazeMonster

It helps developers to generate Flex code to consume BlazeDS Remoting services and also generate configuration file to expose Java classes as Remoting services.

Developers can view response from a Remoting service, generate Flex code to invoke a Remoting service and also generate AS3 VO code for the Java classes.