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