Top 7 Useful Adobe AIR Applications for Bloggers
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed to receive more such tips and tricks. Thanks for visiting!
This is a guest post by technology blogger Rakshit Khare from Aarambh.
Adobe AIR aims to facilitate access to web apps and services from your desktop. I was introduced to Adobe AIR applications just a few days back and now I am totally addicted to them. Out of a number of Adobe AIR apps that I tried and tested, here’s a compilation of the top 10 which bloggers would love to have in their armoury.
But before that just make sure you have the latest version of Adobe AIR installed on your system. You can get it from here.
1. Google Analytics Reporting Suite
The Google Analytics Reporting Suite brings Google Analytics to the desktop. You can access your blog’s traffic statistics from your Desktop itself - you need not necessarily login to the analytics website.
2. ReadAir
As mentioned before, you can access Google Reader from your desktop using this Adobe AIR application. ReadAIR’s features include:
- Mac themed scrollbars and form elements
- Add/Remove/Manage tags
- Subscribe/Unsubscribe from feeds
- Search your feeds
- Auto software update
Another similar app is the Fresh RSS Reader
3. Twhirl
Twhirl is again a desktop twitter client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.
Some of twhirl’s features are:
- connects to multiple Twitter and Friendfeed accounts, cross-post updates to Pownce and Jaiku
- notifications on new tweets
- post images to TwitPic
- search tweets using TweetScan
- timeline filtering
- localized to English, German, Italian and Spanish
4. Webkut
WebKut is an Adobe 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.
5. AIRPress
AIRPress is rich blog editor. You can create new posts, and manage your WordPress blogs AIRPress. The only issue is that it requires an older version of Adobe AIR (i.e., Adobe AIR beta 2)
Colour Browser lets you create and organize your favourite colour palettes. Sets of colours are easily viewable in a clean interface. Edit them, rearrange them, create new sets, and make your own. This is a must have application if you are going to design your blog theme or redesign an existing blog template.
7. ShifD
With ShifD, you can create notes and bookmark websites. You can add content with tags that are easily editable. These are then synced, and you’ll be able to access them from your mobile too.
I hope you like the above mentioned applications. If you know any other apps that may be useful to bloggers, please tell us in the comments.
Get latest technology and internet updates, tutorials, software reviews, tips and tricks by subscribing to Rakshit Khare’s blog at Aarambh.
Great List.
I already use some of them.
They are cool.
@Shankar
Cool New Logo
Great list buddy! I also use the color bwoser from Adobe, Kuler and love it! I haven’t had luck running ReadAir yet in my Linux desktop. Can’t get the login screen but about to check the Google Code for help. Stumbled!
Great list. I already use Twhirl and Analytics, but I’m going to try Reader next.
Nice list. Stumbled!
Useful list, I discovered Twhirl recently and love it, might give the ReadAir app a try out too, thanks!
@MattGarrett
Neat collection…I have been using some of them for a while now..
Good list…some of them I had heard of, but not others. Will try a few out. thanks
Twhirl imo, is the most popular one due to its usefulness (and I love it!). ShifD can be a killer AIR based apps too.
I love TWhirl , great application
Thanks to all for your valuable comments and also for the stumble.
It seems that twhirl is the most popular among bloggers.
ReadAir is also very useful one.
useful list of air apps, have been using twhirl, will try out the analytic’s and reader.
Thanks for the stumbles and comments, everyone!
Credit goes to Rakshit who took time to compile this list!
适合博客使用的7个Adobe AIR程序…
Adobe AIR是致力于将网络应用本地化的软件,发展势头非常迅猛,创意独特的应用层出不穷,倍受博客追捧.大多数AIR程序有一些共同的特点:界面美观,体积较小,运行迅速.这也是它能够获得如此多掌….
Nice collection of tools I use most of these except that I use Faststone capture for screenshots and screen pixel grabbing and WLW for blogging
[...] Top 7 Useful Adobe AIR Applications for Bloggers [...]
[...] With ShifD, you can create notes and bookmark websites. You can add content with tags that are easily editable. These are then synced, and you’ll be able to access them from your mobile too. Source [...]
[...] Also, I have written a Guest Post on Shankar’s blog- Top 7 Useful Adobe AIR Applications for Bloggers. [...]