Posts under ‘A Fresh Breath of AIR’

In AIR you can check the users idle time, meaning that your application can behave differently when the user is not actively using it. On the other side you can also track the time that the user is actively using your application. But what you ask? Let me give you a couple of examples: – [...]

This morning when i stepped in the office and opened up my mail something happend. I got a mail saying i am now being aggregated by the Macromedia XML News Aggregator. That another thing i can tick off my list (Other things i’d still love to do are writing a book and writing for the [...]

At the FITC, a couple of days back, Lee Brimlow was talking about the capabilities of AIR and my question was if you can have animated dock icons, answer is yo can It works like this; To animate or draw an icon, you take an item loaded externally or that is in your DisplayList or [...]

What is AIR? AIR is a new technology that Adobe created, using exsisting and new technology. The name stems from Adobe Integrated Runtime. You probably already saw this in the wild either on AOL, eBay’s Desktop, the FineTune Player or the SearchCoders Dashboard. The sole purpose of these apps is to bring the brand closer [...]

Since i’ve been playing with AIR lately, I decided to write little articles on Adobe AIR, called ‘Fresh Breath’. and will have their own category. In the first article in this series I will explain what Adobe AIR is, new possibilities it has and a little bit about security considerations. Hope you enjoy!