Posts Tagged with ‘adobe-air’

I've made no secret of my unabashed enthusiasm for password manager PassPack. Of all the apps I've tried and reviewed, PassPack is probably the one that gets used most throughout the day, simply because of the enormous number of accounts I need to wrangle as part of this job.
One problem that I've had frequently, however, is the lack of either an offline or mobile version. There's been many a time when I'm sitting at a soccer game or at [...]

We see a lot of different approaches to becoming unique in social media.  This is one of those moves that I'm just not sure what I think about it yet.  Multiply, a reasonably large social network directed towards adults, is now offering premium storage for photos and videos for the price of $19.95 annually.
The new premium storage will be called "digital scrapbook," and is based on some pretty nifty functionality.  An Adobe Air application will upload videos and photos [...]

A while back a little RSS feed tool was released called Snackr. The basic idea behind Snackr is that it takes your RSS feeds and scrolls them across your desktop, so you get a constant stream of updated news and can pick whatever looks most interesting as it goes by. I tried Snackr for a while and had to abandon it in spite of how fun it was (with the number of news feeds for the amount and variety of [...]

Anyone who waded into the comment section of my DimDim review noted a mini-debate began about my feelings about the service. Mainly, why I felt that its current lack of support for Mac and Linux users was a deal-breaker.
Web 2.0 has been all about people and web apps. Conversation and creating accessible apps for sharing and conversing and socializing. so why is it important that everything be non-platform specific?
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster claims that, if you back out purchases [...]

Just call me out of touch, but I just don't get the idea behind moving Google Apps offline. You can give me talking points about competing with Microsoft and unified functionality all you want, but in the long run, what does it do other than create a circle that seems nothing more than keeping developers in jobs.
The two hallmarks of Web 2.0 have been making the web social and removing the reliance on the desktop. Google Apps and [...]

SXSW begins this coming Friday, 7 March, and it will mark the first anniversary of Twitter's explosion on the scene. This past weekend, Twitter was down again, but this time, it was a planned outage to prep the servers for the predicted hammering of their system when SXSW convenes. Of course, you can always continue on Tweeting from the web or your IM client, but an entire cottage industry has sprung up around Twitter since SXSW '07, giving you tons [...]

Anyone who has been keeping track of all the microblogging services now available to internet users (Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr, Meemi, and the list goes on), probably knows that although having launched last June, Pownce has been in a beta stage for the past seven months, limiting the number of people who sign up only to those who have been invited.
Now, the latest brainchild of Kevin Rose (creator of Digg), has today evolved from an "invite-only" service into a public one. [...]

HelloTxt is a service that is very good at what it does, which actually isn't very much at all. But it's useful and easy, which counts for a lot.
Microblogging has exploded in popularity across the web with several different, but very similar, services now available. Although Twitter and Pownce are quite simple to use, anyone who has an account at both (or even at others such as Jaiku) knows how frustrating and time-consuming it can be to post the same [...]

When the first signs of eBay’s standalone AIR-based application, code named San Dimas, hit the Web, we were on it. In mid-April, when the company announced the development’s existence, we passed word on to you.
Well, now you can try San Dimas, now officially given the title ‘eBay Desktop’, for yourself. It’s been months since its first appearance, and it’s finally gone into public beta phase. Mac OS X 10.4 users, as well as those with Microsoft’s XP and Vista operating [...]