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Finally its time for some business. AIR, short for Adobe Integrated Runtime is just released as v1.0 final product by Adobe.

Its a runtime to make RIAs for desktop, even one can create just old desktop only applications with it as well. The main hype for this runtime is that it runs on Windows and MAC OS without any change to the code. Linux version will be released later.

While AIR was in beta, we have seen some great applications and examples that will, for sure, inspire developers to create great experiences with AIR in coming days.

Get the final binaries here.

One thing I’m very confused about is, why Adobe call it Adobe AIR, Even in the Logo? making it Adobe Adobe Integrated Runtime :S

I don’t see MS calling .Net as Microsoft MS.Net Framework. Is there a catch that i missed?

Anyway, there’re tons of new and updated resources to check out. I just skimmed through these:

• Adobe Flex Team – Blog
• Adobe – Home
• Adobe – RIA minisite
• AIR – Home
• Adobe Developer Connection

I barely touched AIR while it was in beta, but now I am planning to get my hand dirty with some Flex and AIR.

BTW, the AIR download size is just over 11MB. A bit heavy than I expected. And it might be noticed by many mid– to low-bandwidth users.

Next thing to do, get the AIR SDK, and get your hands dirty!

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Adobe launched on online website for its Open Source projects. The first projects available on the new community website are:

• BlazeDS
• Flex 3 SDK
• Flash Ajax Video Component
• Generic Image Library
• Adobe Media Gallery
• Adobe Source Libraries
• Tamarin
• Webkit
• XMP (eXstensible Metadata Platform)

Adobe Open Source Home: http://opensource.adobe.com

This is very good step forward, as most startup companies are now adays adopting Open Source software. With Adobe’s OS technologies, we will see good change, hopefully

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Microsoft has recently been quite active with big announcements, updates to developer tools and Windows OS.

On Monday, MS announced they will give away VS, Expression and Windows Server absolutely FREE to students worldwide.

Read more here, and here.

Very impressive move to get crowd stick to MS, seems quite workable idea :)

Adobe also recently made available Adobe Flex Builder free to students. MS following the same idea making it head-on competition for RIA development tools.

Microsoft is very good with getting their technology to masses quickly. And they’ve proven record of it. For example, MS .Net Framework. They made it available to public in early beta, released comprehensive SDK with documentation. And did not charged developers to ship .Net runtime with their applications.

Giving away Expression and VS2008 will also boost Silverlight adoption rapidly. More Silverlight applications means, greater number of users downloading Silverlight runtime daily.

Lets see how it goes.

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I am quite excited to let you all know that we have just released FriendlyGhost, the first complete toolset for debugging Flash, Flex, FlashLite, Central, and even AJAX applications. Read the full press release

It features FriendlyGhost Lite, a Flash Library for debugging FlashLite applications on real devices. Now FlashLite developers can solve Device API myths directly on the device.

 It also features FriendlyGhost AJAX Toolkit for debugging JavaScript and AJAX applications.

The FriendlyGhost package contains:
- FriendlyGhost Component for Flash MX 2004 Pro and Flash 8 Pro
- FriendlyGhost Server, Windows application
- FriendlyGhost Lite, a Flash Library for debugging FlashLite applications
- FriendlyGhost AJAX Toolkit for debugging simple JavaScript to sophisticated AJAX applications
- Product documentation
- Sample applications

FriendlyGhost is a must have toolset for beginners to seasoned Flash developers.

You can find detailed information and screenshots at FriendlyGhost’s website:
http://www.orison.biz/products/friendlyghost/

also you can order it securely from our online store at:
http://www.orison.biz/store/ (powered by ShareIt.com)

// chall3ng3r //

Some time ago, I created a dynamic wallpaper for Windows using Flash & HTML. I think it might be still useful to Central developers.

get it here: DynaDesk (Source code is also available)

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