Which Adobe AIR apps are you using?
Adobe AIR has been out for a couple of months now, and we are really seeing a lot of good apps being released. So, which AIR apps do you find yourself using the most?
For me, I use the following daily:
- TweetDeck Has added a TON of value to twitter for me (especially their summize integration)
- Pandora No more accidentally closing a browser tab and losing my music
- Adobe Desktop Directory (internal Adobe directory app)
So, which AIR apps do you find yourself using the most?
Largely, I use Twhirl. I use it more than any other AIR app currently. I like the Pandora app but it needs to be more of a UI and less of a web page nested in an AIR app.
Ben
22 Jul 08 at 10:39 am
TweetDeck and GMail in daily basis
Pablo_aSH
22 Jul 08 at 10:40 am
I’m using Twhirl for Twitter daily, some other rather seldom (Parleys, Pandora, ReadAIR)
Wolfgang Reinhardt
22 Jul 08 at 10:41 am
TweetDeck (Twhirl for a looong time),
PixelPerfect,
Google Analytics Desktop,
Snackr,
AMP and Maptacular 2.
Savvas Malamas
22 Jul 08 at 10:41 am
Twhirl
a clock I made
Kuler
AMS
Dan
22 Jul 08 at 10:44 am
I just tried tweetdeck and it seemed a little buggy, maybe ill give it another go in a few weeks. Until then, Twhirl is something I use everyday! - http://www.twhirl.org/
Brian
22 Jul 08 at 10:44 am
Twhirl & Pandora
Jonathan Moore
22 Jul 08 at 10:46 am
TweetDeck, Analytics Reporting Suite, TWiT Live Desktop, SQLite Visual Editor (own project, not released yet)
Peter Elst
22 Jul 08 at 10:46 am
@Brian
What issues were you running into with TweetDeck? Ive found it to be really solid, especially for a beta.
mike chambers
mesh@adobe.com
mikechambers
22 Jul 08 at 10:48 am
Twhirl religiously, and an RSS reader that I’ve built as an internal company tool.
I didn’t realize there was a GMail app, I’ll have to give that a test-drive.
Scott
22 Jul 08 at 10:49 am
Cutting down recently.
All I use at the moment is Twhirl… I don’t even use half the stuff I make!
However, I’m taking a look at TweetDeck right now and it does look much better than Twhirl. Very Adobe-y.
Lawrence
22 Jul 08 at 10:52 am
I use:
Google Analytics Desktop
Kuler
AMP
Gustavo Perez
22 Jul 08 at 10:54 am
I have checked out allot of AIR based twitter clients and they don’t really seem to match my requirements. So I’m currently working a new twitter client, which will be really hot ;)
I do love Kuler for some design and color inspiration also Analytics Reporting Suite is great :)
V1
22 Jul 08 at 10:54 am
Kuler - because it’s neet.
I tried out a few AIR twitter clients.. but the resource footprint seems to be much higher than any of my native apps (twitteriffic). I might use AIR more if I used Windows.
I’ll have to check out Pandora, it’s one of my favs for iPhone
Dain
22 Jul 08 at 10:55 am
Snackr
eBay Desktop
Kuler
CFDocs
Pownce
uvLayer
Adobe Media Player
iSpy
Phil Molaro
22 Jul 08 at 11:04 am
I personally use Pandora and Twhirl. Time killers, but invaluable for code-a-thons. I have used Google Analytics Desktop, and now that you mention TweetDeck I will have to take a look at it.
William (Abyss)
22 Jul 08 at 11:07 am
Klok is by far my most used AIR app. I have slowly been converting my office over to using it regularly to track our time spent on projects.
I also use Analytics Reporting Suite, and Kuler.
Going to have to check out PixelPerfect now though, looks like something I would totally utilize.
jvanhorsen
22 Jul 08 at 11:10 am
Twhirl - daily, who am I kidding, hourly
AMP - mostly for playing/testing FLVs for a couple sites I’m working on
Kuler - less often but I’m still a big fan
Jesse Harding
22 Jul 08 at 11:18 am
I use Twhirl, Google Analytics Desktop.
Andrea Trento
22 Jul 08 at 11:20 am
with these comments, keep in mind that I am using the Linux Alpha…
often:
* the kuler app - very slick. lack of transparency isn’t as bad with kuler because it is a black interface.
sometimes:
* twirl - the lack of transparency in the alpha makes this hard to use for me (can’t stand the way it looks) earlier versions lack of keeping track of what I looked at pushed me to twitterfox.
* tweekdeek - i don’t follow enuf people to really make this app useful for me.
never:
adobe media player - doesn’t work in the alpha :(
soon to be used:
thinking of building a air app for BackPack (backpackit.com)
William Steiner
22 Jul 08 at 11:25 am
Acrobat.com Desktop
AMP
Twhirl
WebKut (webpage/content as pic grabber)
Mario Vellandi
22 Jul 08 at 11:53 am
- Twhirl
- Finetune Desktop
- Google Analytics
- Adobe Media Player
William from Lagos
22 Jul 08 at 11:58 am
AUPEO! Desktop Player (http://aupeo.com/)
Claus Wahlers
22 Jul 08 at 12:12 pm
Analytics Reporting Suite is one of my fav AIR app, use it all the time.
Ronnie
22 Jul 08 at 12:18 pm
Pixel Perfect - When designing
AgileAgenda - Planning out projects
Google analytics thingy
Bob T
22 Jul 08 at 12:24 pm
We have also been using Klok to track time;
We use the Kuler webapp but the AIR app doesn’t add much value when what you want is to create your own color schemes;
Bob
22 Jul 08 at 12:25 pm
Twirl - I haven’t tried anything else yet but I like it
Analytics Reporting Suite - it should be called Analytics Reporting Sweet, cheesy but true
Finetune Desktop - A little buggy from the services but I like it. I don’t have to worry about accidentally closing it in my browser tab.
joshspoon
22 Jul 08 at 12:25 pm
Out with itunes, in with FineTune Desktop
Klock - so pretty and perfect.
Analytics reporting suite
Agile Agenda
Stacey
22 Jul 08 at 12:41 pm
Tweetdeck. The only thing that bugs me is that when you click the header of the app and it happens to be the app name it launched to the tweetdeck website.
Brent Bonet
22 Jul 08 at 12:54 pm
RichFLV (daily) ;-)
AMP
Benjamin Dobler
22 Jul 08 at 12:56 pm
- was snitter > then twhirl > now TweetDeck. Thanks, Mike!
- kuler
- Google Analytics Suite has to many usability issues for me. I want to love it, but I’ve never been able to install an update w/o having to redo all of my profiles. If they’re all connected to one Google Analytics account, why do I even have to enter each one? Why, when I click on a ‘profile’ do I then have to click on ‘Go to Dashboard?’ I should rarely have to ‘Manage Profiles,’ so having to choose each time is tiresome.
- ShrinkO’Matic image resizer. I use it occasionally, but I’ve got a few people in my life who need a _simple_ way to resize their images and then find them. That’s all this does.
- eBay–only when I’m following something. Terrific!
wants:
- nytimes crossword puzzle
- time tracker: project, tasks, with reports
- remember the milk
Julie Strothman
22 Jul 08 at 12:57 pm
Acrobat.com often.
AMP & Twirhl sometimes.
Kevin Suttle
22 Jul 08 at 1:11 pm
I live by the Google Analytics app it helps me keep track of all my clients websites that I have designed or programmed.
William Haun
22 Jul 08 at 1:16 pm
Kuler for color choosing
Doomi : powerful task list
Abdulaziz Al-Shetwi
22 Jul 08 at 1:40 pm
twhirl
pownce
sqliteadmin
pandora desktop
Scott
22 Jul 08 at 2:33 pm
Arthropod
Kuler
Analytics Reporting Suite
Plus a few of my own apps
jassa
22 Jul 08 at 3:49 pm
I use most of my time on the net Twhirl and sometimes i use AMP
Saeed Ashour
22 Jul 08 at 4:12 pm
1# Athropod. By far the best AS3 Debugging logger out to date
2# twhirl is really nice though I am kinda put off by the hole miro blogging thing. But for AIR apts this is really clean and useful.
3# A home made webcam security apt I made for my self.
Josh Chernoff
22 Jul 08 at 5:27 pm
Snackr … sometimes. But not seriously because it’s a memory hog. After a couple of minutes use it consumes over 60MB! A bit greedy for a simple News Feed Ticker.
Alcon 3 (currently under development).
sascha/hdrs
22 Jul 08 at 6:03 pm
twhirl: always up and running
Pixel Perfect: what an amazingly simply useful tool. It has replaced Flash on my startup bar
polyGeek
22 Jul 08 at 8:26 pm
I use tweetdeck and finetune(http://www.finetune.com/desktop), parleys, and the searchcoders dashboard a lot. I gave up using the ADC Desktop because it crashed regularly on my pc.
Christoph Atteneder
22 Jul 08 at 10:03 pm
twirl
klok: for time tracking, sometimes. We also use Mylin + JIRA
Hans Regeer
22 Jul 08 at 11:19 pm
Arthropod
RIA Logger
Kuler
Google Analytics
(so i use air more as a developer than as a tipical user…)
eme
22 Jul 08 at 11:34 pm
CFDocs - ColdFusion 8 documentation in a handy AIR wrapper.
Acrobat.com - still in beta but showing potential.
BBC News AIR - also still in beta but works great!
ByteMeHarder
22 Jul 08 at 11:37 pm
Hi,
I use TimeLoc (http://www.rad3.com/timeloc) for timetracking at work. It’s a realy simple application but no taskbar support :(
For Twitter I use Twhirl, it’s simple and looks fine…
Jonas De Smet
22 Jul 08 at 11:48 pm
Tweetdeck : Loving it and it’s getting better and better every week.
Pixel Perfect : Great little thing that does exactly what it needs to.
Adobe Media Player : Occasionally.. but a lot of things don’t work properly outside the US it seems.
domin8r
23 Jul 08 at 12:07 am
I used twhirl until I discovered tweetdeck - awesome app, and it runs on Linux as well.
One of the great features is the ability to run a public feed based on keywords (Search).
Also using kuler and sqlliteadmin at times, and looking for a good time keeping app for planning & billing purposes
johan
23 Jul 08 at 1:58 am
Kuler
FineTune Desktop (no Pandora for us Canadians)
Jason MacDOnald
23 Jul 08 at 5:29 am
Parleys (it just rocks !!!)
EBayDesktop
AirCover (an adobe livecycle air doc and feeds aggregator)
Kuler
François
23 Jul 08 at 7:00 am
Spaz and Vertabase Timer.
Joshua Curtiss
23 Jul 08 at 7:55 am
MiniTask :)
betriebsraum
23 Jul 08 at 8:19 am
Twhirl and an application I wrote. Am coding on Windows XP using free SDK - in HTML and Javascript and CSS.
Wondering about a number of things:
1) How you plan on keeping up with webkit changes.
2) When Linux will be a “first class citizen”. (Have an ASUS EEE PC running Linux to test on.)
3) When SDK will work on Linux.
But I *LIKE* AIR as something I can code for. Particularly as it reuses HTML / Javascript / CSS skills.
Martin Packer
23 Jul 08 at 8:28 am
Oh and the new Dojo Toolkit app.
Martin Packer
23 Jul 08 at 8:28 am
FreshRSS
ebayDesktop
So when do we get ADD (Adobe Desktop Directory)
???
:)
Jason The Saj
23 Jul 08 at 9:34 am
ReadAir - google reader as an AIR app
CFDocs
AMP
Stephen
24 Jul 08 at 7:16 am
DeskTube
Google Analytics
Pixus
john
24 Jul 08 at 8:31 am
I use twhirl. and a lot of apps that I built.. but they’ze a sekret
Critter
24 Jul 08 at 9:18 am
Twhirl, definitely.
Been writing Howler (http://www.ericcarlisle.com/projects), an AIR MP3 player. So here’s my plug! ;-)
Eric Carlisle
2 Aug 08 at 4:09 pm
FLVPlay
Kuler
AMP
Paul Oaken
4 Aug 08 at 6:46 am
Doomi
twhirl
TS
7 Aug 08 at 1:03 pm