Air | Psyked - Part 4

ImageSizer – now with a Feedback form!

by James on 23rd January, 2009 in Air, ImageSizer

ImageSizer 0.4.3

I’m a bit of a slave to my own ideas – why else would I spend my evenings knocking together a whole host of not-really-nessesary features for a simple application? I have to many ideas I want to impliment and too little time to do it, so I’m also acutely aware that I tend to break things without realising, when I try and rush new features through. Hopefully though, it’ll all turn out ok in the end!

Today’s release of ImageSizer (version 0.4.3) introduces another new feature – the Feedback panel. Essentially it’s just a traditional e-mail contact form – heck, it doesn’t even have any validation (yet) – but it should allow anyone who has any ideas or comes across any bugs to drop me a note from within the application. Kudos to Eero Koplimets for taking the time to suggest this feature!

Fiat EcoDrive

by Mark on 23rd January, 2009 in Air

This is a video of a new AIR application from FIAT, its built to help you monitor how economical your driving is. It does this by analysing trip data stored on a USB stick (you plug the USB stick into your car on every journey). The video is definitely worth watching – it’s a really cool application. See what you think…

Behind the scenes of Fiat EcoDrive from Serge Jespers on Vimeo.

Adobe’s platform evangelists Andrew Shorten and Serge Jespers talk to Fiat and AKQA about the Fiat EcoDrive application. Find out why Fiat made this application and why Fiat and AKQA chose Adobe AIR to do it.

http://www.webkitchen.be/2009/01/21/behind-the-scenes-of-fiats-ecodrive-adobe-air-application/

AIR iPhone Application

by James Cannings on 22nd January, 2009 in Air

They’ve created the iPhone as an AIR app using the new Ribbit API. Pretty impressive

http://merhl.com/?page_id=75

Introducing ImageSizer 0.4.2

by James on 20th January, 2009 in Air, ImageSizer

Well, I’m a bit slack on the whole updates front – ImageSizer 0.4.0 and 0.4.1 have already slipped under the radar without a blog post – but with the latest release I thought I’d draw a little attention to it, not least because it fixes a bit an annoying bug that I introduced in version 0.4.1!

ImageSizer 0.4.2

So, what’s new in the latest version?

Well, one of the things that I’ve found a lot of AIR applications are missing at the moment, is the ability to configure their settings – particulary those things mentioned by Serge Jespers in his post: “6 AIR features that may annoy your users” [link]. Back with version 0.3.10 I introduced some Pixel Bender filters to the application. Version 0.4 introduced the Application Settings window – although it only appeared to work. Version 0.4.1 expanded on this by introducing some backend code that actually stored the settings, but had a glaring typo that meant the whole thing didn’t work. Version 0.4.2 in short, fixes this.

Creating custom chromes for AIR applications in Flex & Flash

by James on 15th January, 2009 in Air

Here’s a couple of useful videos from the Adobe TV site. Yes, a custom chrome is one of the first things that people want to learn how to do, and yes, there’s lots of other tutorials around that talk about this – but even after having read many of these, I still found I picked up a few new ideas and tricks from watching these videos. So if you’ve got a moment or two, check em out.

Ps. If you get audio but no video, there seems to be a problem with the embed functionality of Adobe TV videos, so try them from the hyperlinks (which run the videos from the main Adobe TV site).