Adobe AIR aims to facilitate access to web apps and services from your desktop. I was introduced to Adobe AIR applications just a few days back and now I am totally addicted to them. Out of a number of Adobe AIR apps that I tried and tested, here’s a compilation of the top 10 which bloggers would love to have in their armoury.
But before that just make sure you have the latest version of Adobe AIR installed on your system. You can get it from here.
1. Google Analytics Reporting Suite
The Google Analytics Reporting Suite brings Google Analytics to the desktop. You can access your blog’s traffic statistics from your Desktop itself - you need not necessarily login to the analytics website.
2. ReadAir
As mentioned before, you can access Google Reader from your desktop using this Adobe AIR application. ReadAIR’s features include:
- Mac themed scrollbars and form elements
- Add/Remove/Manage tags
- Subscribe/Unsubscribe from feeds
- Search your feeds
- Auto software update
Another similar app is the Fresh RSS Reader
3. Twhirl
Twhirl is again a desktop twitter client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.
Some of twhirl’s features are:
- connects to multiple Twitter and Friendfeed accounts, cross-post updates to Pownce and Jaiku
- notifications on new tweets
- post images to TwitPic
- search tweets using TweetScan
- timeline filtering
- localized to English, German, Italian and Spanish
4. Webkut
WebKut is an Adobe AIR application that allows you to capture web pages, or parts of them in a very simple way. It provides you 3 capture options: the entire page, the current view, or only a selection.
5. AIRPress
AIRPress is rich blog editor. You can create new posts, and manage your WordPress blogs AIRPress. The only issue is that it requires an older version of Adobe AIR (i.e., Adobe AIR beta 2)
Colour Browser lets you create and organize your favourite colour palettes. Sets of colours are easily viewable in a clean interface. Edit them, rearrange them, create new sets, and make your own. This is a must have application if you are going to design your blog theme or redesign an existing blog template.
7. ShifD
With ShifD, you can create notes and bookmark websites. You can add content with tags that are easily editable. These are then synced, and you’ll be able to access them from your mobile too.
I hope you like the above mentioned applications. If you know any other apps that may be useful to bloggers, please tell us in the comments.
