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10 Adobe AIR Apps Bloggers Will Love

Written by Sarah Perez / March 25, 2008 2:07 PM / 13 Comments

Last month we showed you some of the more popular and useful Adobe AIR applications (see "6 Adobe AIR Apps to Check Out"), but there are so many great Adobe AIR applications currently available, it would be a shame to stop at just those six. As we delved through he Adobe AIR directory, what became apparent to us is that there are a lot of AIR applications that will appeal to our fellow bloggers. So many, in fact, that it was worth putting together a list of our favorites. Here are the top ten AIR app that bloggers will love:

Tumbleweed: The Tumbleweed AIR application is a desktop application for posting to your Tumblr blog. With this app, you can quickly post text, photos, videos, links, audio, and chats from your desktop to your Tumblr blog, without ever having to open a web browser.





Flickr Flipper: Looking for an image to go with your post? The Flickr Flipper app lets you browse through Flickr for photos. You can also search for photos from a specific user by typing username: followed by a Flickr user's username.





Digg RSS Reader: Did your post just hit front page? You'll know right away with the Digg RSS Reader. You can keep tabs on all the top stories, or filter them by choosing to view only the News, Videos, or Images. Clicking the links will open the Digg story in your web browser so you can vote for your favorites.





FotoBooth: Ustreamers will like FotoBooth, an AIR app that lets you use your computer's webcam to snap pictures of yourself, add filters or distort them, and then upload them to Flickr with just one click.






Websnapshot and WebKut: Let's call it two for the price of one: Websnapshot lets you quickly take snapshots of a web site by entering in the URL or dragging-and-dropping it from your browser to the app. You can specify whether you want a thumbnail, a browser-sized pic, or a full page snapshot. An auto-save feature lets you save the pictures to the location of your choosing. Webkut goes a step further - you can enter the URL or you can Google for it right within the AIR application, a nice time-saving feature.


Color Browser: Get inspired to re-design your blog! With the Color Browser app, you can create and organize your favorite color palettes. If you're a blog designer, this is a must-have app.





Joomedit: Are you using the open source content management system from Joomla? Then you need Joomedit, a desktop editor that lets you edit, upload, and publish to your Joomla CMS.





SHIFD: Doing research? The SHIFD desktop app lets you save notes, places, and links from the web into the SHIFD AIR application. This content is then available on any device with internet access - whether your desktop, laptop, or mobile phone.








Apprise: The Apprise application is a sample AIR app, which means you can download the source code too. Apprise is an online/offline RSS reader which features importing and exporting of feeds, search, and support for RSS and ATOM.




We would add Google Analytics to this list, but it was covered in our previous post (and besides, isn't everyone running it by now, anyway?). We would have also loved to include AirPress, but sadly, this desktop blogging AIR app has not been kept up-to-date.

An honorable mention goes out to Userplane Desktop, a brandable Adobe AIR app for bloggers in the big leagues. This white label solution can keep your users informed as to your site's news, keeping them engaged even when they're not on the web site itself.

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  1. Wanted to signal my application which allows multiposting to microblogging services.

    Posted by: funkyboy.myopenid.com Author Profile Page | March 25, 2008 4:50 PM



  2. Can't wait for the Flex/AIR applications to hit this year.

    Posted by: Joseph | March 25, 2008 4:55 PM



  3. Great list Sarah, but no Twitter apps? Us bloggers love us some Twitter.

    I nominate Twhirl.

    Posted by: Josh Lowensohn | March 25, 2008 4:56 PM



  4. @Josh - Twhirl was on the last post http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/some_adobe_air_apps_worth_a_look.php

    I love it too :)

    Posted by: Sarah Perez Author Profile Page | March 25, 2008 6:00 PM



  5. Apparently programmers love Adobe AIR, and my experience has been less than positive. Twhirl, and the Pownce application were the two I used for a couple of weeks before deleting both. Both applications were sluggish. This on an Intel iMac with 1gb of RAM. The applications weren't very user friendly either, and screen real estate was all over the place. I'll await until either Adobe or programs like Twitter and Pownce and their programmers get their heads together and give the consuming public a useable product.

    Posted by: Paul W. Swansen | March 25, 2008 7:00 PM



  6. http://37signals.blogs.com/products/2008/02/genido-a-new-th.html

    Khurram Samad

    Posted by: Khurram Samad | March 26, 2008 12:26 AM



  7. Nice list Sarah thank you.

    Posted by: Adel | March 26, 2008 9:08 PM



  8. i cannot hide the Tumbleweed in the bar of windows when i minimize it.

    is that okay? can i do that?

    thanks.

    Posted by: axel | March 27, 2008 12:12 PM



  9. Wow, can't believe my app (Color Browser) made the list! Thanks! I love seeing people actually using something I've worked on.

    Posted by: Aaron Leavitt | March 27, 2008 2:11 PM



  10. The color browser looks interesting. Thanks for the links.

    Posted by: Freelance Web Designer | March 28, 2008 10:36 AM



  11. Twhirl, a twitter client

    http://www.twhirl.org/

    Posted by: bydiox | March 30, 2008 3:40 AM



  12. nice list color browser looks great ..interesting and nice

    Posted by: elena | March 31, 2008 8:08 AM



  13. Why there isn't have twhirl and GoogleAnalytics?

    Posted by: Francis | April 21, 2008 5:17 AM



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