Techie Buzz » Adobe Air http://techie-buzz.com Know your technology head on Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:01:00 +0000 en hourly 1 Google Analytics For Desktops http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/google-analytics-for-desktops.html?utm_source=subscriber&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/google-analytics-for-desktops.html#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:24:00 +0000 Keith Dsouza http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/google-analytics-for-desktops.html You might also like: ]]> The Google Analytics team has just released a new API, allowing developers to take the analytics data and create customized applications from them, this news is pretty exciting, since having a desktop tool to keep track of Google analytics, can save publishers a lot of time.

If you are looking for a free tool to monitor Google analytics from your desktop, a tool called Polaris can come to good use.

Polaris is a application that allows you to monitor your Google Analytics account from your desktop. Polaris is a cross-platform desktop widget for Google Analytics. With 8 standard reports it’s the easiest way keep your data always instantly available. The rich interface and swift navigation make it a pleasure to use.

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Polaris is free for single profile/single website usage, if you have more than one profiles or websites, you will need to shell out $15 per year.

A similar tool for Google Analytics was available earlier, however it has been taken off the shelf now.

Polaris requires that you have Adobe Air installed on your system before you use the software.

Download Polaris



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]]> http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/google-analytics-for-desktops.html/feed 2 Offline Gmail Access With Geemail http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/offline-gmail-access-with-geemail.html?utm_source=subscriber&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/offline-gmail-access-with-geemail.html#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:57:00 +0000 Keith Dsouza http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/offline-gmail-access-with-geemail.html You might also like: ]]> has rolled out a new feature for accessing your emails offline with the help of Google Gears, however not many users are happy with the new offering.

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If you are one of the unhappy users, a new application called Geemail will help you to access your Gmail account and provide offline access to it.

In addition to being a offline Gmail application, Geemail provides you with a standalone interface to access your Gmail account, this was also possible earlier with GMDesk another Adobe Air application

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With Geemail you can compose your email even when you are offline, once a network connection is established, Geemail will send out the email. You can also access the last 1500 emails in your Gmail account offline, so you can download the emails once and then close down your internet connection.

Download Geemail [via CNET]



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]]> http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/offline-gmail-access-with-geemail.html/feed 2 Manage Google Services on Your Desktop with GMDesk [Adobe Air App] http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/how-to-access-google-services-on-desktop-with-gmdesk.html?utm_source=subscriber&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/how-to-access-google-services-on-desktop-with-gmdesk.html#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:07:49 +0000 Keith Dsouza http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/how-to-access-google-services-on-desktop-with-gmdesk.html You might also like: ]]> In our day to day life we use Gmail for our emails, Google Calendar to manage our agenda, GTalk to communicate with friends, Google Docs to create and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations and Google Maps to find directions.

Most of the services except for GTalk are only accessible online, or through several addons and extensions for various softwares like Firefox and Microsoft Outlook.

gmdesk-logo If you are looking for a single application to control all of these services from your desktop, then your search should end with GMDesk a nice little Adobe Air App that lets you run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Reader, Picasa Web Albums and Google Maps from a single stand-alone application.

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This is probably the best Adobe Air application we have seen, since it clubs six different services into one, making it much more easier for users to manage their Google accounts. GMDesk also support Google Apps accounts, so you can easily manage your corporate or educational accounts with ease too.

You will require to download Adobe Air Application before you can use GMDesk.

Download GMDesk [via CyberNet News]



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]]> http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/how-to-access-google-services-on-desktop-with-gmdesk.html/feed 1 Cool Way To Search Images From Your Desktop [Adobe Air App] http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/cool-way-to-search-images-from-desktop.html?utm_source=subscriber&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/cool-way-to-search-images-from-desktop.html#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:45:01 +0000 Keith Dsouza http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/cool-way-to-search-images-from-desktop.html You might also like: ]]> Adobe Air applications have been known to be eye candy, many such applications have become a part of our day to day life (we will shortly reveal all the adobe air apps we use). Our eyes certainly lit up on seeing the latest Adobe Air application called Thumb Fall.

Thumb Fall is a Adobe Air based image search application, that will allow you to search images using Google image search, Yahoo image search, Friendfeed, FFFound and more.

Thumb Fall is not just any image search application, it has a great feature where it drops the images desktop making it much more exciting to search images with. You can also drag the click on the images and move it the way you want. Take a look at the screencast below to see how thumb fall displays images to users.

The search results take a bit of time to load and you have to be patient till it starts, once the search results have been downloaded it will start displaying the .

Searching images with thumb nail is fun, though it lacks the ability to actually save the images and does not have documentation to get to learn more about it. Also once the search has started it is pretty hard to stop it, and it will keep on displaying the images continuously. You can stop the search by exiting the application using the icon in the system tray.

Thumb Fall [via RefreshingApps]



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]]> http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/cool-way-to-search-images-from-desktop.html/feed 0 Battle of the Office Suites: Adobe’s Acrobat.com http://techie-buzz.com/softwares/battle-of-the-office-suites-adobes-acrobatcom.html?utm_source=subscriber&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://techie-buzz.com/softwares/battle-of-the-office-suites-adobes-acrobatcom.html#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:56:45 +0000 Elise Hines http://techie-buzz.com/?p=1371 You might also like: ]]> It seems that every few months, a new web-based office suite is born. Since I spend a good deal of my time writing, having a reliable word processor is paramount. Over time, I’ve found myself increasingly frustrated with the size, cost, and inexplicable changes to Microsoft Office. Combined with the failure of Windows Vista, the massive changes to Office 2007 has caused a lot of people to reconsider spending so much on future Microsoft Office releases.

In the past 3-4 years, a lot of companies have introduced web-based office suites to compete directly with Microsoft’s offerings. A little over a year ago, I was just learning my way around Think Free Office, and hitting a point of frustration with Google Docs. Microsoft has recently felt the pressure to bring their office products to the web via Microsoft Office Live. The public has embraced these tools, and it has created stiff competition among these companies. They are all scrambling to bring the public the features they need and want, without the enormous overhead of a desktop office suite. Recently Adobe has taken the plunge into this arena.

Adobe’s office suite currently consists of the following applications:

  • Buzzword, a robust wysiwyg word processor
  • ConnectNow, a web conferencing application
  • Acrobat for PDF creation
  • File upload, sharing, and management tools
  • An Adobe AIR desktop application


Although this suite was just launched, it has great potential. The file management tools were launched at the beginning, and are not an after thought like they were when Google Docs launched. File upload, sharing, and editing are painless. Everything loads extremely quickly in Firefox and from the desktop AIR application. ConnectNow is an ambitious addition to an Office Suite. None of the competing suites have an application to compete with it. The AIR application also provides a degree of comfort for people who still prefer desktop applications.


I am sure that Adobe plans to add a spreadsheet application and a presentation application in the future. Once these additional applications are added, this suite will force the competition to continue to innovate. Adobe definitely has the edge on the competition from a design perspective, and as these applications are further developed, Google Docs, Think Free Office, Microsoft, and Zoho will have to recognize that this suite is a viable, easy-to-use, aesthetically pleasing, and functional alternative to their offerings.



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]]> http://techie-buzz.com/softwares/battle-of-the-office-suites-adobes-acrobatcom.html/feed 0 Bring Google Reader To Your Desktop With ReadAir http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/bring-google-reader-to-your-desktop-with-readair.html?utm_source=subscriber&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/bring-google-reader-to-your-desktop-with-readair.html#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 04:49:08 +0000 Keith Dsouza http://techie-buzz.com/adobe-air/bring-google-reader-to-your-desktop-with-readair.html You might also like: ]]> I am turning on to become a big fan of Adobe Air as they are bringing more and more applications to the confines of my desktop.

For those who are not aware of Adobe Air, it is a runtime created by Adobe Inc which allows developers to create rich Internet applications that can run on any desktop irrespective of the operating system.

I have been using quite a few Adobe Air applications including Google Analytics AIR application (Google Analytics for your desktop), AirTalkr(Multi Protocol Client for IMs), Feedalizr (Freindfeed Desktop Application), Thwirl ( Tweeter Client) and Klok ( A project management tool).

readair-logo To add to the list I found a super useful Adobe Air Application called ReadAir which brings Google Reader (one of the most heavily used sites for me) to your Desktop. It brings the usual bells and whistles along with a much more niftier user interface to browse all your feeds.

The theme of the application is based on OSX the Mac operating system.

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ReadAir Features

  • Mac themed scrollbars and form elements
  • Full synchronization with Google Reader Account
  • Add/Remove/Manage tags
  • Subscribe/Unsubscribe from feeds
  • Search your feeds
  • User preferences
  • Resizable viewing pane
  • Auto software update
  • Auto login

There are a couple of missing features like Offline mode support and Keyboard shortcuts but the developer of this application is most likely to release a update for those shortly.

To put in short this is definitely one thing I was looking for and is much more better than Prism which I was earlier using to read the feeds in a isolated window on the desktop.

If you would like to find more useful Adobe Air application you can refer back to my guest post Top 7 Adobe Air Applications or check out FreshAirApps where you can find new Adobe Air Applications for use.

Via: [FreshAirApps]



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