High quality and professional-grade photo editing and art applications are a dime a dozen.
Everything you need is right at your fingertips, and minimal effort can produce amazing results. “AIR makes it a lot easier.This program creates a great environment that any designer will find useful. “In theory, one could build themselves, but it would be an enormous amount of work,” Gross said.
The company is launching a new product called Toolkit for Adobe AIR that allows developers to extend applications built using to the desktop. also is using AIR to deliver applications built using its hosted developer environment to the desktop, said Adam Gross, vice president of platform marketing for. Web-based CRM (customer relationship management) provider The technology allows users to search, organize and access BI content in back-end systems and databases from the desktop. For example,īusinessObjects, the business-intelligence software provider recently acquired by SAP, is using AIR for a new product called BI Widgets. Some of the customers announced Monday show some momentum toward that goal. With AIR and related free offerings, Adobe also hopes to drive adoption of its for-fee developer, design and server software in the business and enterprise market. The eBay application also can grab auction and product information that users can review offline at their leisure. Take eBay Desktop, which will be able to deliver product notifications and auction updates to users without requiring them to launch a browser. Users also don’t have to be in a browser or, in some cases, even online to use such applications, Costa added. And putting such programs on the desktop gives them access to local files and storage.
A desktop application built with Adobe’s tools can deliver the same experience regardless of what platform a user is running. Phil Costa, director of product management for Flex and ColdFusion in Adobe’s platform business unit, said bringing rich Internet applications to the desktop has a number of advantages for end-users. The personal hard drive offering 5GB of storage is currentlyĪ Web-based service that lets users share photos, spreadsheets, videos, and other content the coming version will let users access the service via Adobe AIR. Top 100 Music Videos, which allows users to search for and view music videos from AOL Music even when they are offline.ĪOL is working on another AIR-built application that it plans to launch soon called AOL Xdrive. AOL plans to launch an AIR-based application called
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