I have been playing around with Adobe’s new product, Adobe Air, for most of the day (I know, my life is soo difficult).  I have to admit, I am pretty damn impressed!

Adobe Air is platform irrelevant and melds together the Internet and your desktop.  Not only is it fast and lightweight, it has a very small resource footprint so you don’t need a killer machine to run it.

To get started, you need to download Air.  Then, visit the Air Marketplace (most of the apps are free).  Here are some of my favorites:

  • Sundial - A time tracking/project tracking utility the lives on your desktop and automatically shuts off when you computer goes idle (great feature).
  • Ora Time and Expense - A lightweight application to help you track time and expenses, and generate invoices.  Useful for a designer or someone who does work on the side.
  • StockQ - An Air application that provides streaming stock quotes for one or multiple portfolios.  Great for having your portfolio and a prospective portfolio!
  • Spaz - The best Twitter desktop client out there - hands down…
  • Google Analytics Reporting Suite - No longer do you have to log in to Analytics to check your sites stats.  Beware: If you are a compulsive stats checker - stay away from this application.  It’s too easy to go overboard when it’s just sitting on your desktop!

If you find any others, let me know!  I am definitely going to be using Air for a while, and will probably end up tackling the programming side of it before too long.

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