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Adobe AIR 2.0 Beta out – list of new features

Adobe released a beta of the next version of AIR – AIR 2. Christian Cantrell posted an exhaustive list of everything that’s new in AIR 2.0. The list is impressive, and includes some things we’ve been thinking about – audio recording, calling native apps, multi touch and many more. The number of AIR applications on my computer is rising, and looking at this list, I can tell the number is just going higher.

Are you an AIR developer? What do you like the most in that feature list?

Microsoft too can build good UI – here’s a “sixth sensy” demo

So everyone who’s worth their salt is working on gestures and eye tracking and other – more natural – ways of interacting with a computer. Two interesting videos here that demonstrate pen, audio, gesture and eye tracking input. Good show Microsoft, I say.

Craig Mundie demonstrates future UI – part 1 and part 2.

Did you fall in love with the slider toggle button on iPhone? Now you can use if in Flex

Srinivas Annam has built an iPhone style switch component for Flex – iCheckbox. Looks nice and is worth a try. I am sure users find it easier to use than a checkbox.

WebResourceDepot has posted a collection of 27 AIR applications useful to web designers / developers. There are many apps that solve similar problems, but the list is good. More importantly, it feels nice to see people making useful AIR apps!

The 27 apps are:

1. Web Snapshot
2. WebKut
3. Pixus
4. PixelPerfect
5. Icon Generator
6. Flickr Flipper
7. RichFLV – FLV Editor
8. Shrink O’Matic
9. Em based layouts – Vertical rhythm calculator
10. Font Picker
11. COLOURlovers Desktop Color Finder
12. Kuler Desktop
13. Color Browser
14. Color Picker
15. RegExr Desktop
16. Snippely
17. SearchCoders Dashboard
18. Vertabase Timer
19. MiniTask
20. Klok
21. Doomi
22. Timeloc
23. Ora Time & Expense
24. FEAT (Freelancer’s Estimation Assistance Tool)
25. Google Analytics Reporting Suite
26. Snippage
27. ConceptShare Desktop Uploader

Read the original post to know more about these apps, and also check out comments for some more interesting apps!