Adobe AIR + WordPress = AirPress!

AIRPress, blogging on wordpress

Airpress, a nice kool little AIR app for blogging in wordpress. With the offline edition mode, it fits very well with the requirements of a blogging Desktop application like Windows Live Writer.
With all the super kool effects and UI, it just looks great. Drag and drop support for inserting images and other content is also helpful.

To install AirPress, just click on the Install Now button











































AIR features used

* Custom / animated windows
* Embedded database for offline read/creation of posts
* Detection offline / online
* File I/O API for saving FLV webcam videos record
* ActionScript / JavaScript Script bridging to interact with the text editor made in HTML/javascript.
* Drag and Drop Support for the media (pictures, sounds, videos, flash animations...) you want to insert in your post.
* Network communication with the blogs via XML-RPC


How to Start?

On the first screen, click on "Import blog" button to import a blog.
Choose the type of blog you want to import between Wordpress and dotClear.

Fill in the 4 required fields :

* Name : Enter a name of your choice for this blog
* URL : Enter the URL of the weblog. For testing purpose, you can use our Wordpress blog. Then, enter http://www.airpress.org/wordpress
* Username : Enter a username that have rights to publish posts on the weblog. In the case of our Wordpress blog, use guest
* Password : Enter the associated password. In the case of our Wordpress blog, use guest

Should I call it MicroBook or FaceSoft?

The Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site Monday afternoon that Microsoft is considering investing $300 million to $500 million for a 5 percent stake in Facebook.

more news: http://mediabiz.blogs.cnnmoney.com/2007/09/24/let-the-facebook-bidding-war-begin/ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119065193646437586.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news

Google Analytics AIR beta

The Google Analytics Reporting suite is an Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics to the desktop. It uses it’s own custom API to interact with Google and nearly implements all features of Analytics.

This unofficial AIR version of Google Analytics delivers the functionality of browser-based Google Analytics but with greater usability and a richer experience. If you haven’t heard of AIR (once named “Apollo”), it’s a platform developed by Adobe that enables web developers to deploy their web services outside of the browser so they function more like traditional applications.

If you don’t already have AIR, you need to download it to use any AIR-base applications (as with Flash).

Gmail Mobile UI Improves...

Gmail imporved the mobile version available at m.gmail.com by adding more features from the desktop version. Now you can configure the links to some of your labels and add other views like Spam or Drafts. Next to the messages you willl see a checkboxes that allow you to perform one of these actions for all the messages: archive, delete, report as spam, add a label, star or mark as read.

More...

Blogger Play

What is Blogger Play?

Blogger Play is a real-time slideshow of photos Blogger users have recently uploaded to their blogs. It's a great snapshot of what people are thinking and posting about, right now!

http://play.blogger.com/

SlideRocket! PowerPoint Killer

SlideRocket is a web application that provides everything you need to design professional quality presentations, manage and share libraries of slides and assets, and to deliver presentations in person or remotely over the web.

SlideRocket has all of your typical slide show features but also incorporates things that Flash does really well. Even you can embed a Flash object right into a presentation to add some rich animation or transition.

The charting features of SlideRocket are also very impressive because they’re using the Charting components from Flex. So you can quickly and easily embed very meaningful data visualization assets into your slides. Because it’s Flash, you can embed Flash video into your presentations and also embed the finished presentation into a blog or other page to tap into the viral element.

Kevin Lynch Flashforward Boston Interview

NUI Flash Surface vs MS Surface

This video trailer of Natural User Interface’s Flash Surface seems too cool, it almost simulate the all features of MS Surface, except wireless media transfer between devices, and automatic device recognition. Project is using Flash 9 with AS3, and it will be open source. So far it looks direct competitor to MS Surface.

There are more videos available on Google video here and here.

I think Flash is best option they used. The key differences between this and what Microsoft is building are that the AS 3 library will be open source, allowing anyone to incorporate this type of functionality into their own applications. Developers will need a touch screen to handle the user's interactions, but the software will be available as open source. You can get involved and learn more at nuigroup.com.

The latest Flash 9 performs better, and have accelerated full-screen support, it features HD video support, and best of all, it runs on most operating systems. Overall, it could be a better and cool alternate to MS Surface. Hmm... let see how things going.