Adobe AIR links

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Kshipra

Here are some excerpts from an article i came across that would be useful to get to know Adobe AIR.

Adobe AIR

Published 28 May 2008 by Gil Harland

AIR stands for, the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and is one of the latest interesting development from Adobe.

AIR runs on Windows, Mac OS X and a very usable Beta version for Linux. It installs the first time you download and run an AIR application, much in the same way that Flash is installed on a computer if the user visits a web site using Flash and they don’t already have it installed.

AIR applications run on the desktop and are half way between web based applications (which run in a browser) and full blown desktop applications such as Word or Photoshop.

Developers can create AIR applications using the HTML, CSS, Javascript, Flash, Flex (A flash framework) and PDF knowledge they already have and AIR acts as a wrapper that allows them to run on the desktop and go beyond the limitations they would normally have if they were running in a web browser.

AIR applications differ from current web applications because AIR applications do not run in your web browser and therefore are able to use desktop features such as full drag and drop between applications, save files to the local hard drive or network and store data locally in a database.

When compared to traditional desktop applications, AIR applications are simple to deploy, easy and cost-effective to build, have better web integration and will run on all three of the major operating systems.

AIR is also smart enought to know when it is and isn’t connected so you can create programmes that work with online data and use the local database as a fallback if the connection to the internet is dropped.

more on AIR at Adobe® AIR™ Applications Wiki

Download the latest version of Adobe AIR

RefreshingApps.com – Showcase for Adobe AIR Applications and Resources

10 Adobe AIR -Must See- Applications

Adobe AIR Marketplace

How do you remember multiple logins & passwords?

Posted on November 18, 2008 by Kshipra

Have you started with a hotmail account, a yahoo one later then rediff to rediffmail and next one to gmail?
So do you keep the same passwords for all of them? if not how would you remember?

How about facebook, flickr, technorati/delicious & linkedin accounts and many more?? Do you keep the same login? what if the name was already taken (suppose in delicious) and you have to change the login….how would you remember?

If there was an online application (i tried googling & googling) would you trust it to save such sensitive information?

I’m sure you save your password and your home PC/laptop but i’m sure you’ll need to backup somewhere else right?

where would you save it?

Monday morning usability blues

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Kshipra

As more applications are moving on to the internet, it is getting more challenging to create user experiences for the non-IT savvy people.

10 Usability Nightmares You Should Be Aware Of is worthwhile read, found when i was browsing for more categories to be added to the customised usability checklist, while doing a Heuristic Evaluation of an application.

Thoughts on Interaction Design is added to my blog roll , i have found Welie’s Pattern library extremely useful for UI patterns while designing for webapps.

Fun with Adobe Kuler part II

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Kshipra

I have graduated to 38 themes now

‘the beach‘ being highly popular, 17 downloads and favorited by 7 members;32 downloads and favorited by 13 members (Updated June 24th 2008); with ‘Fresh‘ coming in second 8 downloads and favorited by 3 members.

‘Shades of Orange‘ , ‘Proteus‘ , ‘Proteus II‘ received comments from fellow members, it is always encouraging to get feedback.

IxDA discussions…

Posted on June 6, 2008 by Kshipra

Been very busy lately, unable to dedicate time out of my schedule to follow up all discussions. Though i haven’t contributed yet, am sure i will be a more active member in the future with loads of topics to discuss while i gain industry experience.
I wanted to keep track of certain links which were the topic of discussions, hence this post

UI Designer for Ford Source Experience Planner

Design Research: Why you need it by Steve Calde Source Cooper

Spoonfed Photoshop’s Interface tutorials

Stop gathering requirements by Jeff Lash
Posted on May 6, 2008
Source How To Be A Good Product Manager

I bumped across a really good collective blog on User Research at Pathfinder Blog

Have you checked out Buzzword (Adobe then, Acrobat.com(beta) now!) yet? when it was in Preview mode they had a ‘Gandhi’ pic for the image icon, i thought it was really cool. But across cultures it would be unfair to idolise one man, though the father of our nation (India) it would be unfair to many unsung heroes. Post June 2, 2008 they have changed the image icon to a more generic image for user across different cultures, thats my opinion…

Typetester: Compare fonts on the screen

Posted on May 2, 2008 by Kshipra

A neat tool, to compare type on screen, 3 at a time!!
Typetester is a cool web app whose primary role is to make a designer’s life easier

Bumping into many web apps and facing a shortage of time to blog all of them.

I have created a page name “Web Apps 2.0″ to keep a track of them

Photoshop Express

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Kshipra

Are you one of those people who have the OCD of updating your friends about your travel exploits?
Finally after uploading your holiday snaps, you are a in a desperate need to color correct them? or remove the red eye which spoil many of the digital images?
Wish you had you laptop with you on your holiday? (with Photoshop installed?)
No need to fear, Photoshop Express is here!!
You can upload digital images to the Service and to organize, store, edit and share those images with family and friends and/or with the general public.
Also create and share albums, slide shows and online galleries containing your images and other content.
Apart from signing up for the 2GB storage (Adobe clearly states to keep a back-up!), you also get to create a Personal Sharing URL such as your_name_here.photoshop.com.

Though i am really not sure why this service allows access to external sites such as facebook, picasa and photo bucket, maybe they (Adobe) plan to have some sort of collaborative integration

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