30+ Most Useful Adobe AIR Applications

Adobe AIR is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.

Every designer and developer loves handy tools that simplify frequent tasks. Even if you’ve a complicated software that does the same thing, usually it is much more effective to run a tiny, fast-loading application that does the job.

Here I am going to list out some of the useful Adobe AIR applications that I came across. This list contains of 30+ Most Useful Adobe AIR applications that can help a web designer to design and develop. Hope that you can find some of the useful applications to do the job more faster. Enjoy!

WebKut

WebKut is an 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.

Color Browser

This application is a simple way to create and organize your favorite color palettes. Sets of colors are easily viewable in a clean interface. The color palettes can be edited, re-arranged & duplicated too.

Doomi

Doomi is a simple to-do-list application that designed to stay out of your way. Besides entering, editing & clearing tasks, you can set an alarm for a task and the Doomi can warn you.

Klok

This application helps managing projects, keeping track of the tasks & getting reports on them. It features drag and drop, excel export, archive and a collapsed view that stays our of your way.

Fonts Picker

Font Picker is a simple tool shows you all the fonts installed on your computer and helps you choose which one is most suitable for a particular project. You can simply delete the fonts that don’t like by pressing the “X” next to them or “Reset” if you want to start again.

CL Desktop

CL Desktop is an application that runs on your desktop to bring you a better view of Craigslist postings. It is a user friendly way to browse Craigslist.

Shrink O’Matic

A batch image resizer that can handle JPG, GIF & PNG files. Simply drag and drop images and they’ll be resized as you like. The options allow you to choose the output sizes, names and formats.

uvLayer

uvLayer is a application that allows you to watch and share videos with your friends. It lets you share the videos you are watching with your uvLayer friends or Facebook friends.

Icon Generator

This is a little application that lets you generate a CS3 or Web 2.0 style icon, only 3 step. Pick color, type characters, and save it.

ImageDropr

ImageDropr is a application for uploading your images to flickr. Simply drag some images from your file system and drop them on the application, add a few tags if you wish, and hit the upload button to send your files to yor flickr account.

COLOURlovers Desktop Color Finder

Desktop Color Finder lets you search the entire database of nearly 1 million named colors and more than 300,00 user created color palettes.

Snoto Photo

Snoto Photo is a desktop application for browsing your recent photos as well as the recent photos of others. You can also do a slideshow of the photos.

Flickr Desktop Search

Desktop Search is an application which helps you search Flickr images.

FLVPlay HD

FLVPlay HD plays your local or remote flv and mp4 videos, as well as the ones from the YouTube servers which are available via the <Search> feature of the application.

Flair

Flair is a free, easy to install application that lets you know whenever you’re poked, or someone writes on your wall, or adds you as a friend – without having to constantly check the Facebook website or your email.

Websnapshot

Websnapshot allows you enter a URL or drag and drop it from your browser. Select the type of snapshot you want to make from the size of thumbnail, browser size or full page view.

Snippely

Snippely is a basic text and code organizational tool. Using Snippely, you can group, organize & store your code snippets easily.

AOL Top 100 Videos

This application features top 100 hottest music videos, related artist videos and special features form AOL Music. It allows you to bookmark videos and watch them whenever you want.

Twhirl

Twhirl is a social software desktop client. It connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts.

MiniTask

MiniTask is a free and easy-to-use task management application that helps you with organizing your daily to-do very quickly. It supports features like drag ‘n’ drop reorder, alarm timers, task sheet printing and customization of styles.

GMDesk

GMDesk is an application that lets you run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Maps as a stand-alone application to do all your mail handling, calendar event reading etc with.

eBay Desktop

eBay Desktop is a desktop client for accessing eBay listings. You can use this tool to browse, bid, search and jeep track of your eBay auctions.

Facedesk

Facedesk is an application that, when installed, becomes a stand-alone application to do all your Facebook surfing with.

Pixus

A pixel ruler that enables you to measure the size of any object using both mouse and keyboard control. With browser skins, overlay mode and screen size presets, you can also preview how your design will look in the real environment.

Polaris

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.

Timeloc

Timeloc is a desktop widget that keeps track of the time you have spent working on a job or project. It will no longer be a case of guess work as to how much you need to bill your clients or assign to a project. Timeloc is ideal for both internal and external billing.

Flickr Flipper

Flickr Flipper allows you to search for Flickr photos and also search for photos from specific Flickr users. It uses Papervision to display the photos one at a time and even allows you to download the photo to your computer.

Pixelperfect

Pixelperfect is an utility for measuring the size of objects on your desktop. It demonstrates custom chrome and transparent windows.

AirTalkr

AirTalkr is a multi-protocol Instant Messenger that connects to MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk, AOL and ICQ. Not only that, it also has connects to to various Web 2.0 services like Flickr and YouTube.

Wordpress Comment Moderator

Moderator is a WordPress Plugin and associated desktop application, built using Adobe AIR, that allows you to view and moderate comments from your desktop.

P/S: If you don’t have Adobe AIR installed, it can be downloaded from HERE.