At last year's Max conference, a new Adobe technology called Adobe Wave was revealed that demonstrated how web content publishers could easily publish notification to their user's desktops. The Adobe Wave client is built on Adobe AIR allowing users to receive near real time notifications of new content, a new social interaction, or another notification that the publisher would like to let you know about.

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Debugging your Flash applications can take some getting used to.  Especially, if you've never used a debugger before. Having the right tool to aid in debugging your Flash Applications can save a boat load of time.  Also when debugging, the debugging tool used should provide easy access to your ActionScript data with little of a learning curve. An innovative debugging tool that I have been pretty fond of lately has been De MonsterDebugger.

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These days as a designer/developer rapid prototyping has become a key component to getting projects in and out the door much quicker.  To this effect, many prototyping tools have surfaced over the last year or so.  A new rapid prototyping tool, FlairBuilder, created in Adobe AIR has just hit the market and first looks of it look pretty impressive.

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One big feature of the AIR iPhone is the ability of using Ribbit to make and receive phone calls.  Joe recently added a calling notification feature which makes the use of this app just that much cooler.  When the AIR iPhone is minimized the calling notification window will appear when you receive a incoming call.  Check out this new feature in action!

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The art of preloading in Flash has been somewhat lost in the age of speedier Internet connections.  The one sure way to grab a users' attention and provide a great first impression has gone with it...until Pretty Loaded surfaced.

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With Adobe AIR picking up steam, there are certainly some great applications available however, the few attempts at creating effective mulit-platform games on AIR has been somewhat of non-existent. That is until a new innovative game called Now Boarding was created.

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Daniel Dura, a platform evangelist at Adobe, recently released his very useful AIR application called Moderator.  Moderator allows WordPess users to modify their comments from the convenience of their desktop.

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The JW Desktop Player uses the Adobe AIR Framework to playback FLV, MP3 and MP4 files on your MAC or PC.  JW Desktop Player allows you to playback a video by simply dropping it on top of the display.

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Here is a fun little AIR application that Lee Brimelow made to create fake receipts. You'd might ask why would an application like this would ever be created. Lee actually created this to assist with his daily receipt documentation. For what ever reason this appliaction was created, it's still presents itself as very original.  Interesting to see how it can be taken further.  Download it!

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SlideRocket is a Flash-based approach to presentations online. It's the only presentation software that allows you to create stunning presentations, manage them intelligently, share them securely and then measure the results.

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