Alive & Free A page of links to recent works (free) on-line from living authors: Books, Book Excerpts, Long Fiction/Non-Fiction. (* indicates complete book on-line.) Fiction Dead Doll Humility by Kathy Acker Obsession by Kathy Acker Death on the Nile by Karim Alwari Rim by Alfred Besher (Hotwired registration required) Innocence Lost by Earl Brewer Naked Lunch by Wm S Burroughs Synchronized * by William Calvin Unlisted * by William Calvin Cool Darkness by Matthew Carpenter Delirium by Doug Cooper -- cover The Titles Sequence From The Adventures Of Lucky Pierre by Rovert Coover The Advocates Devil by Alan Dershowitz from Birdland by Rikki Ducornet The Hejleh by Esmail Fassih Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner Agrippa * by Wm Gibson The Juror by George Dawes Green Searching For The Truth by Wei Jingsheng The Dying Ritual by Christopher Jorgensen Love [Enter] by Paul Kafka On the Road (1) -- (2) by Jack Kerouac Umney's Last Case by Stephen King The Lark and the Wren by Mercedes Lackey Non-fiction
15 New Adobe AIR Applications For Designers & Developers Adobe AIR has clearly became the standard on creating desktop applications for web developers. Besides the offline applications, it can combine the richness of web with the simplicity of desktop & offer very functional tools. At WRD, there were 2 other posts that had shared web designer/developer focused Adobe AIR apps.: Since then, various new tools are built & here are 15 new Adobe AIR applications for designers & developers: colrful colrful is a beautiful application that enables you to make color-based searches in Flickr. Another feature is the ability to mention an image URL & get similar images from Flickr. Polaris The application is a desktop interface for Google Analytics (free version works with 1 website). It offers most of the features of Google Analytics including visits, pageviews, reports, Google Maps report & more.. Big Browser Big Browser is an application which can display multiple websites in a single window. Boks This is an Adobe AIR UI for Blueprint CSS framework. SEO Analyzer
Understanding Apollo During my recent visit to the US, I popped into the Adobe office in San Francisco to find out more about Apollo - the company's new RIA (Rich Internet Application) runtime and development platform. I sat down with Mike Chambers - Apollo Senior Product Manager, developer relations - to figure out what Apollo is all about and where it's headed in the future. Christian Cantrell, another Product Manager on the Apollo team, joined us midway through to show me some of the newest Apollo apps. In this post, I summarize that meeting - but also I aim to give a kind of 'Apollo for Dummies' overview (because until that meeting I was one of those dummies!). Mike started off by explaining to me that Apollo aims to bring web apps to the desktop, in contrast to Microsoft's WPF which comes from the desktop to the Web (it's worth noting though that Mike doesn't believe Apollo competes with WPF). Apollo in layman's terms Adobe Media Player Examples of early Apollo apps Conclusion
Ext JS Blog - » Building a desktop application with Ext, AIR, Ap June 30, 2007 | Jack Slocum Ext JS is an excellent framework for building web applications that have desktop like functionality in a web browser. But what if you could take your JavaScript powered application and run on the desktop like any other native application? The launch of Adobe AIR (formerly Apollo) has made this not only a reality, but extremely easy. Get Aptana With the new Aptana AIR plugin creating an AIR app was easy, even for a newbie like me. 2. 3. Coding the application Coding the UI of the AIR application was indentical to coding any other Ext application. Ext.data.SqlDB and Google Gears support The other challenge faced was when I wanted to run the same application in a browser. Building the application Can Aptana make this any easier? Simple Tasks I started out with low expectations - just making a simple application in AIR using Ext. While Adobe Air is still being refined, I have the feeling that this is the start of something great. More Information
Authorama 10 Adobe AIR -Must See- Applications WebResourcesDepot have collected the "must see" Adobe AIR applications which any developer is interested in Adobe AIR should bookmark. Some of the Adobe AIR applications have their source codes, so they may help developers to create their own. Adobe AIR Applications With Source Code Fresh Download Fresh: Fresh is a skinnable RSS reader built entirely using AJAX running on Adobe AIR. Roadfinder Download RoadFinder: Download RoadFinder Source Code: Roadfinder combines two of the most popular online maps, Yahoo! Spaz Download Spaz: Download Spaz Source Code: Spaz is a free, open source Twitter client for Mac, Windows and Linux. Signet Ora Time And Expense
Christophe Coenraets » Flex-based SQLAdmin for Google Gears I spent the last few days building a Flex/Google Gears integration demo that Kevin Lynch demonstrated during the Gears announcement today at the Google developer day in San Jose. The demo is a Flex-based Sales Force Automation application that uses Gears to save data to a local SQLite database while offline, and automatically synchronizes back with the server when you reconnect to the network. There is a browser-based version of the application using Gears for the local database access, and an Apollo version using Apollo’s built-in SQLite support. I will post the code and more information about the application after cleaning it up a little bit. In the meantime, here is a SQLAdmin app that I built to help me manipulate my Gears database as I was building the demo. You can run the application here. To use the app with your own databases, download the application here, and run it from the same domain as the database you wish to inspect. The source code is available here
Why not try an Adobe AIR RSS Feed Reader, its worth it : Speckyboy Design Magazine Adobe AIR has recently surpassed well over 100 millions downloads, and its all thanks largely to the many Twitter apps available. Now, I love Adobe AIR, and hate its current reputation that it is seemingly limited to only Twitter. Why is no one downloading the AIR RSS apps? You should be, they are great, just have a look at the list below. AlertThingy – FriendFeed Edition AlertThingy – FriendFeed Edition » Get all your FriendFeed updates direct to your desktop with AlertThingy FriendFeed Edition. AlertThingy – FriendFeed Edition Video Review Snackr: Snackr: Homepage » Snackr is an RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. Snackr in Action Video Snackr – GUI » from Robert Sørensen » on Vimeo ». ReadAir ReadAir » ReadAir can sync your Google Reader feeds straight to your desktop. ReadAir Screenshot Scoop: What’s new? Scoop: What’s new? ShareFire Sharefire Screencast GeoFeeder EspressoReader EspressoReader Screenshot
Google Gears for Offline Data Entry Friday, July 20th, 2007 <>p>Jack Herrington has written his second article in his series on Gears. The article goes into detail on creating a form based data entry application that works offline. This means that entries are batched up, so when the user goes online they can be sync’d up. The forms are sent using Prototype and Ajax.Updater. Jack iterates on the data model, going from a simple blog, to separate content. ConclusionFor years now, web applications have been stuck at the 90 percent solution mark. 10 Adobe AIR apps that make you more productive | Webware Adobe AIR apps are some of the best designed, most useful applications you can have on your desktop. Last month, I highlighted 10 applications to try out, if you're thinking about using AIR apps . This time around, I want to take a look at 10 apps that will make you more productive. Trust me, they will help you save some time. Be more productive Agile Agenda Agile Agenda is a project management tool that helps project managers keep their team on track. Agile Agenda is quite impressive. Agile Agenda gives you the option of trying it for 3 days or 30 days, or buying a license. Doomi Doomi is an extremely simple to-do-list app that lets you quickly add items you need to complete. File Furnace File Furnace is a unique app. Google Calendar Invoice Creator If you're looking for an easy way to transfer all your meetings from your Google Calendar to a program that will bill those with whom you met, Google Calendar Invoice Creator is for you. My top 3 1. 2. 3.
Google Gears, la apuesta de Google para acceder a sus aplicacion Google acaba de lanzar Google Gears, una aplicación de escritorio que permite a aplicaciones web guardar sus configuraciones en tu máquina, sin salir del navegador. Imagina por ejemplo que quieres leer tus feeds en el transporte público, pero cómo no tienes acceso a Internet, la única opción que tienes es utilizar un lector de escritorio. ¡Pero ahora hay otra forma! Simplemente sincroniza tu Google Reader antes de salir de casa y ya está, puedes apagar tu portátil que tus feeds seguirán siendo accesibles aunque no tengas conexión a internet y Google Reader esté en modo offline. Por ahora solo lo implementa Google Reader, pero se espera que en un futuro próximo esto se extienda a las demás aplicaciones, como Gmail, Google Docs o Google Calendar. Además Google ha abierto las especificaciones, así que cualquier aplicación web puede hacer uso de esta tecnología. Vía | LifeHacker Enlace | API de Google Gears Descarga | Google Gears