1 Best List of Adobe AIR Apps For Freelancers

Adobe : "Adobe AIR is a cross-operating system runtime that enables you to use your existing ActionScript or HTML/JavaScript development skills and tools to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) outside the browser and on mobile devices."

Today, I would like to share some Adobe Air Apps, especially for those of you who work freelance. In this list, there are Adobe AIR apps both desktop or web-based applications. Each application is selected and organized based on your category field.

I hope, these applications be useful to simplify your workflow, your project management, increase your freelancing productivity, and of course to the success of your projects. :)

Okay, let's look completely. Here are :


Adobe AIR Apps For Writers - Bloggers

• AIR Press Rich : AIRPress is a rich blog editor based on AIR technology.

• Wikipedia Desktop Widget : Wikipedia Desktop Widget is an Adobe AIR application that lets you search Wikipedia topics from your desktop.

• ShifD : ShifD is designed to let users easily shift notes, links, and addresses between their computers and their mobile phones.

• Moderator : Moderator is a WordPress Plugin and associated desktop application, built using Adobe AIR, that allows you to view and moderate comments from your desktop.

• MyDesktopNotes : MyDesktopNotes is an adobe air widgets that offers the possibility to create notes shown on your desktop. You can create multiple notes and customize them.

• Focused : If you are a writer and you need to be concentrated on the current draft, Focused is very helpful. When you run Focused you are in front of a full screen application, which shows you just a text box. This prevents you from having a look to other windows or tools that are potential distractors.

Adobe AIR Apps For SEO - Internet Marketing

• SEO Analyzer : SEO Analyzer is a desktop based application build specifically for page rank checking, link analysis and keyword analysis for seo purpose. It is built using Adobe AIR.

• eBay Desktop : eBay Desktop is a desktop application that provides customers with next-generation online shopping experiences. As a seller, Desktop eBay allows you easily sell and track items on eBay with real-time listing information without ever opening a browser. 

• Polaris : Polaris is a cross-platform desktop widget for Google Analytics.

• TraficAir : TraficAir makes it easy for you and even your competition to keep a close eye on your website’s progress.

Adobe AIR Apps For Photographers

• Flickr Desktop Search : By using Flickr Desktop Search, you can find the photos, people, or groups your looking for on Flickr.

• CleVR Stitcher : CleVR Stitcher is an incredibly easy way of creating your panoramas.

• Splashup : Splashup is a powerful tools for advanced image editing enthusiasts like Levels, Hue - Saturation and Brightness - Contrast. Together with standards tools like rotate, crop, resize and many fun effects, Splashup Light is a well-rounded photo editor perfect for those that don't need or want heavy desktop image editing suites.

• SWFShot : SWFShot is an Adobe AIR based application that allows you to create high-resolution images or flash contents stored on your hard drive.

• TiltShift Generator : TiltShift Generator is a web service that adds cool camera effect to your picture on the fly.

• zFlick : zFlick enables you to search for anything that your mind could desire. If you come across a really cool image save it! Simply drag-n-drop to your desktop.

• FotoBooth : You can capture pictures with webcam and add cool effects like fisheye, deformer and hexcells to the pictures.

• ImageFinder : ImageFinder allows you to add images to a list of favorites, so recalling the images you like is extremely fast and easy.

• ImageDropr : lets you upload photos to their Flickr account through drag and drop interface.

• Snoto Photo : Snoto Photo is a desktop application for browsing your recent photos as well as the recent photos of others. You can also do a slideshow of the photos.

• Kurst Gallery Editor : Kurst Gallery Editor allows you to create 3D image galleries in a simple and intuitive manner.

• Citrify Photo Editor  : Citrify is a easy and fun way to enhance your personal photos.

• NIT Resize & Watermark : NIT is photo resizing and watermarking app.

• Photo Frame Show :  With Photo Frame Show you can add stylish and fun frames to your digital photos, blend them with your desktop, enhance your online albums, web pages, blogs, mobile wallpapers and more.

• Flair : Flair allows you to easily access the abyss of images in the Flickr database but also includes user information clicking a user's icon takes you directly to the user's Photostream.

• PhotoTable : Photo Table is a multi-touch interactive slideshow. Tap, zoom, flick, rotate, and drag images around the table and share your experiences with family and friends.

• Flickroom : Flickroom is an Adobe AIR based application that provides the rich browsing experience Flickr users have long deserved. The dark theme ensures that your photographs look better than ever before.

• Shrink O’Matic : Shrink O’Matic is an AIR application to easily (batch) resize (shrink) images. It handles JPGs, GIFs and PNGs.

Adobe AIR Apps For Web Developers - Designers

• De MonsterDebugger : Monster Debugger is an open source debugger for Adobe Flash, Flex and AIR. It is made in Flex and AIR and offered for free by De Monsters

• Snippely : Snippely is a basic text and code organizational tool. Instead of storing bits of code, quick notes, and memos in text files all over your hard drive, this application will let you save and organize "snippets" in one convenient location. A snippet is a collection of one or more pieces of code and notes. Snippets are stored in groups for organization and quick retrieval.

• //aSnippet : //aSnippet enables you to keep all of your frequently used code snippets (As3, As2, Js, PHP, HTML, MXML…)  in one place that’s accessible from any computer.

• JS Packer : JS Packer is an amazing way to compress and obfuscate JavaScript files and codes. You can save file list as projects.

• Code Bank : Code Bank is a code snippit manager with support for a local database as well as a shared database. Code Bank also has syntax highlighting for multiple languges including C++, ActionScript, Flex, HTML and SQL to name a few. Code Bank also has a simple revision history with a compare viewer so you can see the changes side-by-side between two revisions.

• htmlText Editor : htmlText Editor will helps you create your htmlText visually, speeding up the workflow.

• Luracast Flexplorer : Luracast Flexplorer is a .SWC explorer to quickly reference MXML properties of Flex 3, Flex 4 framework and custom flex components.

• BlazeMonster : BlazeMonster helps developers to generate Flex code to consume BlazeDS/LCDS Remoting services and also generate configuration file to expose Java classes as Remoting services. Developers can view response from a Remoting service, generate Flex code to invoke a Remoting service and also generate AS3 VO code for the Java classes.

• Lita : Lita is a free and open source SQLite database administration tool for Windows, MacOSX and Linux.

• Adobe Developer Connection Desktop : Makes you easily track and receive desktop notifications to changes in bugs you are tracking from the public Adobe bugbase.

• iPlotz : iPlotz allows you to rapidly create clickable, navigable mockups and wireframes for prototyping websites and software applications.

• WebKut : WebKut is an AIR application that allows you to capture web pages, or parts of them in a very simple way.

• Color Browser : Color Browser is a simple way to create and organize your favorite color palettes. Sets of colors are easily viewable in a clean interface. Edit them, rearrange them, create new sets, make them your own.

• FlairBuilder : FlairBuilder is a cross-platform prototyping tool that helps you create interactive wireframes & prototypes faster, easier and with better results.

• Boks : Boks is an AIR application (so it works on Windows, Mac and Linux) that provides a User Interface for Blueprint CSS's framework. It's been designed for those who think the Grid System is good but never really took the time to give it love.

• eDocker : eDocker is designed for publishers - layout artists and graphic designers.   You can use them to prepare your publication in a digital format easily, quickly and affordably, without any help from third parties.

• Web Snapshot : Web Snapshot enables you to configure the snapshot sizes & lets you choose whether the snapshot be a thumbnail, browser size or the full page.

• Pixus : a handy tool for web and interface designers which allows them to measure objects in pixels and preview design.

• .merlin : an AIR Font Organizer merlin is an Adobe AIR based utility which extract the actual font name, and rename the file based off of that.

• Em based layouts - Vertical rhythm calculator : very unproblematic way of creating CSS code for typography set on baseline style.

• Kuler Desktop : an Adobe AIR app that allows you to browse and search color themes from kuler.

• Contrast-A : You can create custom color palettes with this AIR-based application.

• Font picker : Font picker is a simple tool that lets you browse through the fonts installed on your computer and narrow down your selection to choose the one that's right for your project.

• Dot3D : Dot3D is an Adobe AIR application that lets you view a 16x16 pixel picture in 3D. You can freely draw, rotate the picture on the canvas, and save it to your desktop as an image file in PNG format. You can also put an external image file (JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, and ICO format) onto the canvas. Dot3D will automatically draw it.

• Desktop Color Search : Desktop Color Search is an Adobe AIR app that runs on your desktop and allows you to search the entire COLOURlovers database for colors, palettes and patterns.

• Desktop Ruler : Desktop Ruler is, just as its name indicates, a virtual ruler utility/tool for your desktop.

• PixelWindow : PixelWindow is a simple, light-weight, cross-platform application for measuring things on your screen. It creates a transparent window that acts like a pixel ruler with its width and height reported in the center. Just drag it around and resize it to measure whatever you want.

• Big Browser : Big Browser is a free cross platform browser allowing display of multiple websites in a single window.

• Designview : Designview  is GUI tool for Flex applicaions layout composition. Provides basic functionality of the Flex Builder Design View.

• Livebrush : Livebrush is a drawing application. It employs an easy-to-use brush tool that reacts to your gestures through the use of velocity and other motion controls.

• SearchCoders Dashboard : The SearchCoders Dashboard provides a centralized resource where Flex developers can find information and share their knowledge with others.

• ADM - AIR Application Descriptor Manager : ADM is an AIR application descriptor file manager. It's a tool aimed at AIR application developers who want better control over their applications' descriptor XML file by providing them a nice GUI to edit the properties and icons of their little child. You can think of it as a design view for your descriptor files.

• Lupo Manager : With lupo manager, you can easily extract strings from your source code, manage resource bundles and implement i18n logic in your Adobe Flex® / Adobe AIR applications, in a very productive way.

• Bolso : Bolso is designed to be a tool for developers working on their own Amazon SimpleDB applications to focus on their work rather than having to spend their time creating their own tool to modify their data.

• Text Escaping Unescaping with AIR : The Text Escaping Unescaping application is an AIR-based application that could be very useful for those who need to convert different texts or characters by using special conversion methods.

• pixDIF : pixDIF is an AIR application to help developers and designers measure pixel distances on their screens.

Adobe Air Apps for Project Management

• Google Calendar Invoice Creator : Create your invoice keeping track of your hours on Google Calendar.

• Ora Time and Expense : Ora Time and Expense is a small easy-to-use application for tracking and generating timesheets, expense reports, and invoices.

• Timeloc : Timeloc is a desktop widget that keeps track of the time you have spent working on a job or project.

• Remember The Task : Remember The Task is a light-weight Remember The Milk client that allows users to view pending tasks with due dates and add, view and complete tasks.

• Klok : Klok allows you track all your time spent on projects.

• MiniTask : MiniTask is a FREE and easy-to-use task management application that helps you with organising your daily todos very quickly.

• Vertabase Timer : Fun & Easy way to track time on projects and track time on clients.

• Agile Agenda : Agile Agenda is an app that helps you plan a project schedule, integrated with Basecamp.

• FEAT : FEAT is a small utility for freelancers who want to find their optimal price range. You simply enter values like your expenses, profit margin, retirement savings, working hours, etc. and FEAT will calculate the rest for you.

• StudioCloud : Free business management software used by tens of thousands of businesses. Includes desktop, online, and iPhone access.

Adobe AIR Apps For Collaboration - Communication

• Mindomo : Collaborative mind mapping and brainstorming software for your Desktop.

• ShareFire : ShareFire is a feature-rich news aggregator that lets you share stories via AIM, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, email and more with no copying and pasting, or dragging and dropping.

• SimpleDiagrams : SimpleDiagrams is a small desktop application that helps you express your ideas quickly and simply. There's just enough functionality to describe a thought or capture a process.

• twhirl : twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.

• Project ROME : Project ROME by Adobe. It's a simple, powerful, all in one content creation and publishing for virtuallyanyone.

• AIR iPhone : The AIR iPhone is a desktop application created with Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex 3, it simulates the UI of the iPhone. It has the capabilities to make calls, receive calls, check voicemail, add contacts and even send voice messages.

• GeeMail : a desktop client for Gmail. GeeMail work on Windows, Mac and Linux.

• ReadAir : ReadAir is an OSX Themed Desktop Client for Mac or Windows.

• Seesmic Desktop : Seesmic Desktop is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS. With 90+ 3rd party integrations, Klout, Zendesk, Salesforce Chatter, LinkedIn, Yammer, and Stocktwits are just the beginning.

• Plotbot : With Plotbot, you can create private screenplays to work alone or with invited friends, or you can create public screenplays to find new friends. All changes are tracked to each writer, and you can revert to prior versions at any time.

• TweetDeck : TweetDeck is an app that brings more flexibility and insight to power users.

Other Useful Adobe Air Apps might you need

• Adobe Job Feed : with Adobe Job Feed, allows you to find the latest jobs that require Adobe skills at all kinds of different companies with Adobe’s new job feed.

• Fireworks AutoBackup utility : helps you to automatically keep creating backups of all your .png files which are being modified, while working Fireworks.

• GMDesk : GMDesk is an application that lets you run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Maps as a stand-alone application to do all your mail handling, calendar event reading etc with. No need to open it up in a web browser, or have it clutter your workspace.

• PasswordKeeper : Free Password Keeper enables you to manage a database of all your application, Web site, document and other types of passwords.

• Snippage : Snippage is a cross-platform application that lets you create a desktop widget out of any website.

• Prism : Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.

• RegExr Desktop : RegExr Desktop is a tool for learning, editing, and testing regular expressions (RegEx or RegExp for short) on Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux.

Some Adobe Air Resources

• Official Adobe Air Marketplace

• Official Adobe AIR Forums

• RIAForge : RIAForge is an open Source projects built on Adobe technology.

What's your favorite?

Glad to hear your opinion. Please if you have any other list. Thank you.

Happy freelancing, keep working, keep your health, and good luck for all! :)

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