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Adobe AIR links

Posted by Kshipra in Featured Post, Interaction Design, Web on December 11th, 2008

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

Adobe AIR Applications, web apps

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How do you remember multiple logins & passwords?

Posted by Kshipra in General, Web on November 18th, 2008

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?

email, login, password, UCD, web apps

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Monday morning usability blues

Posted by Kshipra in Usability on June 30th, 2008

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.