With previous releases of your AIR application you needed to provide a certificate  obtained by a corporation and us "individuals" had to go without having our applications signed. Now all you need is an government issued ID to pbtain your own certificate.

http://chosensecurity.com/products/tc_publisher_id_adobe_air.htm

Check out this unique tool, used for making mockups in seconds. I have used the online demo version and am definitely getting my hands on a copy of this. The tool allows you to create mockups of website layouts, application and so much more. It has a very easy to use components panel. Just drag and drop and save. The best feature of this tool is the way it auto aligns the components when dropped on the stage. Once you have a layout, just save and edit whenever you want.

"Never waste a minute

Mockups For Desktop allows you to work on your UI wherever you are, regardless of your Internet connection. It works on planes, at coffee shops, and wherever you like to do uninterrupted work. Import and Export features ensure seamless integration with all the other versions of Mockups, for when you get back online. Plus you can load and save multiple mockups files, use all keyboard shortcuts and lots more."

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A new version of feedalizr has been launched, and has been rewritten from the ground up.

New feedalizr features:

• Offline support - SQL Lite is used for offline storage, meaning all data that has been retrieved, is stored and is available offline.
• Full twitter support - feedalizr is now a full twitter client, allowing replies, favouriting and direct messages.
• De-duplication - this is handy if..... ie, you are a friendfeed subscriber and you have a twitter account. Without de-duping, this would have meant that you would see the same entry in your friendfeed stream as well as in your twitter stream. Duplicates are now flagged, and are displayed in a minimized view. This works across all duplicate content, be it twitter/flickr/jaiku etc.
• Better memory management. Adobe Air apps have the reputation to be memory hungry, but feedalizr is optimized to run as lean as possible.

I work for a company called MIH SWAT. For the past month or so, myself and a couple of talented team members, have been working on a Adobe AIR application called feedalizr. We are very proud of the latest version 1.1.0 alpha.

A summary

• Reads your friendfeed stream in a easily readable format.
• Notifies to of new/updated entries via a toaster.
• Posts new friendfeed entries
• Comments on other user's entries.
• Liking and unliking other user's post.
• Twitter integration - change your twitter status.
• Flickr integration - allows uploading of photos, tagging and managing privacy settings.
• The latest feature that we are most proud of, is the ability to record and view videos in the app.

We are really interested in your feedback, so any comments, suggestion etc. will be appreciated.
You can also use getsatisfaction.com to give us feedback.

Checkout this awesome post on Adobe AIR resources. The post lists everything from AIR applications, tutorials, code resources, articles, getting started pages and third party integrations.

101 Adobe AIR Resources to Add to Your Toolbelt of Awesomeness

Damm... It's here people. Adobe have released the official version of AIR. Check it out at: http://www.adobe.com/products/air

I am a bit disappointed that the runtime's size has increased by 3mb, but never mind what is a few seconds (depending on your speed) download time between friends.

This is a simple app (just an experiment), that makes use of SystemTrayIcon and NativeMenu (some of the new features in AIR Beta2). It doesn't do anything, just demonstrates some of the new functionality of AIR Beta 2.

I have 3 movieclips on stage, one contains a textfield that updates (counts), one is a vector animation, and one is a sequence of images. I use setInterval to create bitmapdata evey 40 millisenconds, and then update the SystemTrayIcon, so it animates.

I have also implemented NativeMenu, that creates a contextmenu when you right click on the tray icon. The menu item that you select, gets checked, and disabled, and changes the animation accordingly.

Note: you will need the AIR Beta 2 Runtime. I have only tested it on PC.

Here is a the AIR file, and well as the source code. Hope someone finds it handy.

What a way to start a week.........with good news from Adobe....Adobe AIR Beta 2 is out .... GRAB the new Beta 2 runtime. To compliment this new release, is the new Adobe AIR update Beta 2 for Flash CS3 Professional.

Something interesting.....you can run both versions (Beta 1 and Beta 2) in parallel, granting you the ability to run AIR apps authored for Beta 1 while you have Beta 2 installed. Unfortunately, apps authored for Beta 1 will not run on Beta 2 alone, you need Beta 1 installed as well. I tested this, by uninstalling the AIR Runtime (both versions), and installing Beta 2. I then tried to run MICON, authored for Beta 1, which failed (prompted me about an older version of the runtime....). I then installed the Beta 1 Runtime, which told me that I was about to add support for AIR version 1.

More sample applications for Beta 2 have been published on Adobe's site.

New Livedocs content for getting Beta 2.

New getting started page for AIR Beta 2.

Beta 2 release notes.

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UPDATE: I've added a close button, MICON V1.1 is avaliable, same link as before.

In case you get bored reading this, download the app first :). I've called it MICON, and its a application that allows you to extract system icons used for a file/folder, and save them as a transparent png. Download it here.

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I've used this application as an opportunity to cover aspects of AIR I was interested in. I've implemented custom chrome(transparent), resizing, drag n drop (to and from desktop), fileSystem access amongst other things. I've also implemented multiple windows, just to test performance, and it is amazingly easy, fast, and light on system resources. (I've taken this out, since it's not needed in MICON). I have only tested the app in Windows, so I would be interested to get feedback from Macintosh users.

This is my first official ascoza post, as well as my first AIR application. I've been postponing getting my hands dirty in AS3, mainly because it looked like a massive jump from AS2. It is a big jump, but not as radical as I expected. For those of you out there, contemplating migrating to AS3, I can definitely recommend it. If you are used to implementing 3rd party libraries, it will be easy to pick up AS3. A lot has changed yes, but the documentation is very good, and there are decent samples to work from.

Once I've cleaned up the code, I will release the source. I also plan on updating the application, to add more functionality to it (post suggestions - even it's just related to the current version [1.0] ). I am not sure how hardcore the .ico file format it, but if it's something I can get my head around, I would like to the ablility to package icon files from png's. I don't have much experience with binary data, so I'm not sure how long this will take me. Maybe there is allready a kind of iconEncoder actionscript library (pls let me know if you know of one).

You will need to install Adobe AIR beta.