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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

By Mark W. Kaelin August 11, 2010, 3:20 AM PDT

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

The Air Platform

The Air Platform

Adobe Systems is looking to make their Air platform the de facto choice for cloud-computing applications, but judging by their marketplace offerings, they still have some work to do.

While there are several solid applications available in the Air platform (TweetDeck is a good example) there are also numerous mediocre desktop widget-like applications too.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

TweetDeck Install

TweetDeck Install

One of the most useful Air applications I know of is TweetDeck. Follow Twitter and Facebook with one app.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Agile Agenda

Agile Agenda

I realize that Adobe envisions Air as application platform, but some of the vendors seem to be showing a little too much zeal with their offerings. Agile Agenda seems pricey to me.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

New Your Times Reader 2.0

New Your Times Reader 2.0

The New York Times Reader 2.0 is one of the more polished applications I have come across on the Air platform.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Some content requires subscription

Some content requires subscription

You get some parts of the times for free, but other parts require you to be a Times subscriber.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Crossword Puzzles

Crossword Puzzles

You can do the crossword puzzle for free.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

NASDAQ trickery

NASDAQ trickery

The NASDAQ OMX Market Replay is an example of a poor installation and user experience. The Air application fails to mention that you need to subscribe to the service on the NASDAQ site.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Time Magazine

Time Magazine

The Time Magazine 100 application is basically a glorified Web page in need of an update.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Update trouble

Update trouble

For some reason, I could not update to a newer version.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Earth interface

Earth interface

The old version works, and the Earth interface is pretty cool, but the amount of content is cursory at best.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Shufflr

Shufflr

The Shufflr application will show you videos recently viewed or recommended by friends on Facebook or by other people in the Shufflr network.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Dreamfall video

Dreamfall video

However, I am dubious that anyone on my lists watched this video recently.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Chess Jam

Chess Jam

I love a good chess match.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Enter the Castle

Enter the Castle

The one problem with Chess Jam is that there is no computer player. You have to play against another person logged onto the network.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Your move

Your move

The chessboard itself looks pretty good with simple classic styling.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Snackr install

Snackr install

Snackr will track you RSS feeds.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Snackr feed

Snackr feed

You can have the feed scroll on the bottom like a cable news network or from the bottom to the top along either side.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Concentration costs money

Concentration costs money

Again, I think there are some overly zealous vendors. This Concentration game costs $2, but I am pretty sure I can get it for free several time over on the Internet.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Studio Cloud

Studio Cloud

Studio Cloud is very ambitious – it is business management software.

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A screenshot sample of Adobe Air applications

Business management via the Cloud

Business management via the Cloud

I am not comfortable managing my business in the cloud even though the Studio Cloud software is very sophisticated and looks to be able to actually provide a feasible management tool.

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