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Ted Patrick has started to collate a list of ActionScript 3 API’s primarily for the Adobe MAX keynote but should be a great source of info for all you AIR mashup people out there.
https://adobemax.dabbledb.com/page/cloudapis/IylZKLSG

Fround this useful link from a post on Twitter about how to trick Adobe AIR into installing properly on OS X (10.5.4). Not had any issues myself, although looking through the coments it seems to a have been a workable solution to a few.

So check out Andrew Petersons post out here.

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.

The BBC have announced their plans to take the iPlayer concept cross platform using the power of Adobe AIR. The blog post by Erik Huggers (director of Future Media and Technology) outlines the future vision for the iPlayer to conform to the corporations platform neutrality aspirations.

Primary drivers for this move are cross platform desktop application that works on Apple OS X, Windows and Linux. The ability to locally save programmes for viewing later or even offline, gives the license fee ...

Bit late on the uptake with this but early this morning Adobe released Flash Player 10 for general download and announced that Creative Suite 4 can now be purchased.
So go and get your hands on the greatest Flash Player ever.

Following the £5k Future of Web Apps competition to turn your ideas for a great AIR application into reality, the winner is UpshotApp.com. Following a Dragons Den style panel (called the AIR dragons!) the winners had to pitch their ideas for an Adobe AIR application.

Adobe will be on hand to help as you define the scope for your AIR application and will also help promote your application upon release through the Adobe AIR Marketplace

Yes and not forgetting RefreshingApps.com ...

I’m thrilled to be speaking at this years Adobe Max conference in Milan (December 1st – 4th). My session is titled ‘Perfecting the users experience with Adobe AIR’ and is scheduled currently to take place on Monday the 1st December at 14:00.

Don’t forget to check out the other Brit’s speaking at Max Europe this year, Andrew Shorten has the lowdown on his blog.

So if you are heading along to Max Europe this year stop by my session or tap me on the shoulder for a chat.

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 ...