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SmashingMagazine have excelled themselves again in producing a fantastic list of sites and resources for all things related to Adobe AIR.

Wheather you’re a designer, HTML, Flash or Flex developer there will be something in this list for you.

Oh and they kindly include a helpful link to your favourite Adobe AIR showcase site, RefreshingApps.com.

So head on over to SmashingMagazine and read all about it as they say.

The team who built the Queued Adobe AIR application for NetFlix (reviewed Feb 2009), have a blog where they are giving details about how the desktop application was built.

Covering areas like UI design and wireframing to skinning and more. So have a look at the blog and check out the Queued AIR application.

Interesting read today on InsideRIA by Giorgio Natili about creating an AIR application that uses a plug-in based architecture model.

It is more of an exploratory article rather than tutorial, however it’s a very interesting read on the subject of architecture and security considerations.

From a tweet by Chad Udell (@visualrinse) this is a video of a concept tablet with mulitouch built using Adobe AIR.

This is direct from the MIT Mobile Experience Lab (mobile.mit.edu) and look totally awesome. There is some detailed notes in the description of the video as to the system setup they used this included a PS3 webcam.

The application is an Adobe AIR app programmed in AS3, loading in Google Maps and plotting geo-coded photos onto a map of Venice, Italy.

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The ‘Skin to Win’ competition over at Scalenine has ended and the winners have been announced. There are some interesting skins there and you can go and preview them all here. The first place entry was by Alberto Alcaraz with undefined and it’s a lovely skin with lots of detail you can check out a live example over at Scalenine.

Automotive giant Fiat, has just lauched an AIR application as part of an integrated system called eco:drive. Fiat owners of certain models can plug a USB stick into the car that records lots of data about the way you drive. This is then loaded into the AIR application for analysis to give the drive an eco:index rating. The blue & me technology is developed by Microsoft but Fiat wanted a solid cross browser solution, and naturally AIR was the perfect choice.

As I don’t own a Fiat I can’t ...

Adobe have announces the new Creative Suite edition 4 that appears to offer better RIA development across a range of the tools. You can now create Adobe AIR interfaces in Fireworks CS4 ready for deployment to HTML, SWF or Flex.

This is really going to open up the toolset to more designers which in turn gives us more cool AIR apps! So get ready to get your hands on the new Creative Suite 4.

An interesting step by step article for developers on using Flash CS3 and AIR. This will cover some of the questions and getting started issues that Flash developers could have when moving to AIR development. Nice job guys. Check it out here now.

Those guys at EffectiveUI have been busy creating the User Interface Resource Center. Where RIA designers and developers can get information on a range of RIA technologies including Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex.

The content is light to begin with however there is a good interview with the guys on The Making of eBay Desktop.

This site will make a great accompaniment to freshAIRapps for any RIA developer.