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Great news Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder are not both out of Adobe labs. Get going with next generation designer / developer work flow.

Well this came out of the blue. Adobe are actively working on a 64bit version of Adobe AIR and the Linux version is going to be the first one out of the stable.

According to Ashutosh Sharma’s blog the AIR team are requesting that if you are interested and have the time to offer feedback then they would welcome your application to the pre-release program.

Read more here.

If you didn’t know by now the BBC have released the iPlayer desktop AIR application out of the labs stable. Also new HD streams are becoming available. Read more at the BBC Internet blog.

This will really help the adoption rates of the AIR runtime which can only be a good thing.

Still wondering why the BBC didn’t include the launch now badge functionality?

Some great news this morning from the guys over at Adobe. There is now an ActionScript 3 API for Facebook on Google Code. This is an official API and Adobe have included a new section over at the DevNet purely for Facebook.

This is fantastic news for all those people developer apps and widgets using the Flash Platform. Daniel Dura has a quick introductory video tutorial on creating your first Application using Flex Builder on the DevNet.

Another written article on the DevNet takes you ...

Rich Tretola has posted an article on the EverythingFlex blog around getting the community to feedback ideas and wishes for the next BIG release of Adobe AIR. With the recent announcement from Microsoft on Silverlight how do you see Adobe upping the game with the next major release for AIR?

Well now is you chance, no matter how strange a request Adobe are listening and it’s time to get those suggestions in.

So if you have any great wishes, suggestions or fixes that you want to see then ...

At Mix 09 Microsoft announced that it’s Silverlight product can now run on the desktop for both Windows and Mac. This places the Microsoft offering as a competitor with Adobe AIR.

However upon closer examination the two technologies are coming at the desktop RIA space differently. There have been a lot of confusing reports regarding the Silverlight offering and I wanted to get a more rounded understanding before a rightup. It appears that with Silverlight you can turn any Silverlight web app ...

This update fixes a number of issues including the annoying Shift + space bug that has been the plague of messages on Twitter for a while now.

There is also a couple of new methods including a one for knowing if the user launched the application or it was launched on system startup. To take advantage of these new methods you will have to change you Application Descriptor File to use Adobe AIR 1.5.1.

So get out there and grab yourself the latest AIR version : http://get.adobe.com/air/

Adobe have released an update their AIR marketplace. The new update is a lot more on brand and is now instantly recognisable as an Adobe site. A cleaner interface with dynamic AJAX effects offer another way of getting Adobe AIR apps.

Just like here on RefreshingApps.com you can vote and see the highest rated apps.

Interestingly RefreshingApps.com is going to be evolving over the coming months. It’s early days and things are currently in development on a whole new custom platform.

So I’m ...

There is a new open source debugging tool for Flex, Flash and AIR called De MonsterDebugger. Built in Flex and AIR by design studio De Monster it looks really interesting.

It is stacked with features including live editing, detailed tracing, FDT templates and you don’t need the Adobe debug player. So download it today and give it a go over at http://www.monsterdebugger.com

The new text layout framework is fantastic in the latest version of Flex and AIR, using the new Flash Text Engine

Head on over to the Adobe labs page for the textlayout that has a tour of the new features.

Mihai CORLAN has a great write up on the new features, so if your in developing an AIR application that needs advanced text flowing and support for right to left languages you need to read up on this.

[via: Serge Jespers

Another big milestone for Adobe AIR was reached today when the Adobe AIR 1.5 runtime for Linux graduated out of beta. A visit to the Adobe Labs pages for the linux version of AIR results in a polite message saying that the AIR runtime is now available from the usual Adobe AIR download page.

This is great news for Linux users as they can now have a solid platform for cross platform applications on which to run some fantastic AIR apps that need the new 1.5 version like the latest Twhirl.

Adobe have placed the videos of some presentations from this years Adobe Max Conference in North America. Unfortunately they didn’t record any sessions from the European Max so you won’t get to see a rerun of my great session!

So head on over to Adobe TV and get viewing. So far there are two that are targetted specifically AIR but I’m sure more will be added soon.

cyn.in is an enterprise collaboration system that allows users to share documents, applications and digital content within a secure environment.

As part of the offering that Cynapse is an Adobe AIR desktop client that keeps users constanlt updated with a streaming supply of information.

The cyn.in desktop client keeps users updated with its unique activity stream while enabling instant discussions within any document, file or content.

Read more on the company blog.

Blimey Adobe have been very busy and there is now so much focus on AIR and AIR applications, it’s an exciting time.
Adobe announced a few days ago a new pre-release program called Adobe Wave.

It’s a desktop notifications system using a hosted API by Adobe to enable single call updates for trusted social networks and newsletters. It is a SaS (Software as a service) system by Adobe using a REST API that gives developers the ability to reach users without having their own desktop presence like ...

The new Adobe software code named Thermo has been demoed at conferences and online quite a bit since Max last year. It is still very much in pre-release development however Adobe have released the actual product name for Thermo – Flash Catalyst. I think it is a very good name due to the very nature of where the tool sits within the new CS4 suite and upcoming Flex 4.

If your not familiar with what the application offers, it works with the new FXG format that Adobe is integrating with Flex 4 ...