Category Archives: AIR

Adobe AIR (formerly Apollo)

How Ironic – Aviary is a CS3 competitor built with Adobe products

Posted on November 26, 2007 by

Aviary is a platform ecosystem for people who create. It is organized around a suite of Flex-based rich internet applications geared for artists of all genres. From image editing to typography to music to 3D to video, we have a … Continue reading →

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Apollo FileSystem Tutorial Part 1 – File and FileStream

Posted on May 27, 2007 by

One of the most important new features in Apollo is the ability to access the local file system directly. This provides developers with the ability to read and edit text or html files, save preferences locally, store application states as … Continue reading →

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Mims speaks @ NY Flex Users Group 2007/5/24

Posted on May 10, 2007 by

Hi. For you readers in NYC, I’ll be speaking at the next NY Flex Users Group on the Apollo Filesystem API. I hope you can make it! If not, watch this space for notes and code samples. Cheers! NYFLEX.org

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Apollo Mail Client Version 0.3

Posted on April 26, 2007 by

I’m pleased to announce the first alpha release of ApolloMail, a cross-platform POP3 / SMTP e-mail client written in Apollo (obviously) in under 500K (and most of that is my gratuitous about banner). It’s just the beginnings, really, but here … Continue reading →

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Logging to a File in Apollo

Posted on April 10, 2007 by

Since Apollo apps will be run as standalone desktop applications, logging to trace output or a LocalConnection won’t really be useful once the app is installed on the end-user’s machine. It would be great to log (a responsible amount) (if … Continue reading →

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