Top 7 Useful Adobe AIR Applications for Bloggers
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.
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Great List.
I already use some of them.
They are cool.
@Shankar
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Aravind
15 May 08 at 6:58 pm
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!
K-IntheHouse
15 May 08 at 7:14 pm
Great list. I already use Twhirl and Analytics, but I’m going to try Reader next.
Sharon Hurley Hall
15 May 08 at 7:23 pm
Nice list. Stumbled!
Myo Kyaw Htun
15 May 08 at 7:24 pm
Useful list, I discovered Twhirl recently and love it, might give the ReadAir app a try out too, thanks!
@MattGarrett
Matt Garrett
15 May 08 at 7:24 pm
Neat collection…I have been using some of them for a while now..
Joel
15 May 08 at 8:19 pm
Good list…some of them I had heard of, but not others. Will try a few out. thanks
Aseem Kishore
15 May 08 at 9:32 pm
Twhirl imo, is the most popular one due to its usefulness (and I love it!). ShifD can be a killer AIR based apps too.
Syahid A.
15 May 08 at 10:01 pm
I love TWhirl , great application
Madhur Kapoor
15 May 08 at 10:14 pm
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.
Rakshit
15 May 08 at 10:29 pm
useful list of air apps, have been using twhirl, will try out the analytic’s and reader.
Ashwin
15 May 08 at 10:35 pm
Thanks for the stumbles and comments, everyone!
Credit goes to Rakshit who took time to compile this list!
Shankar Ganesh
16 May 08 at 8:26 am
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….
DiggLife
16 May 08 at 9:37 am
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
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Good list man. I had written a post on 7 Adobe Air applications to check out, a few of them not on your list:
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James
28 Dec 09 at 7:51 am
I think this one should be on the list as well. http://studiocloud.com
they do free adobe air business software which any decent blogger should definitely be using something like it.
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3 Feb 10 at 2:08 am