Earlier last month, Aviary officially opened its doors with its suite of powerful creative applications built using Adobe Flex. With all the hype and anticipation, Aviary is officially out of beta.
Aviary introduces Raven
With that said, the lifting of beta tag Aviary ironed out the differences between their pro and free subscription plans. They also add 5 new apps including Raven, a full feature vector editor. And let me tell you, WOW! These apps have truly defined what the Flash Platform is capable of accomplishing.
Aviary is a suite of powerful creative applications built using Adobe Flex that you can use right in your web browser. Aviary has sought out a mission to be bring the tools to the artist so they can then turn their vision into reality. So far that mission is on track.
Is it free?
Beginning November 5, 2008, Aviary will be available in three subscription plans: Free, Green, and Blue. All three plans provide a more customized solution to fit your creativity. However, to be honest the free plan is looking pretty good right as it offers a lot of inviting features for those simply looking to caught up with this new, innovative tool.
What applications are currently available?
In total, Aviary plans to offer 15 unique and innovative online applications as part of their suite. At the moment, there are 4 applications, Peacock, Phoenix, Raven and Toucan, currently available for full alpha/beta use. Aviary plans to release more info as it comes on the status of the other 11 applications. If you are interested on being one of the few indivduals to gain early access to these applications in progress, I’d suggest looking into their “blue” plan.
Overal, Aviary’s launching of its suite has simply opened up a new genre of web applications that will soon begin to really challenge desktop applications everywhere.
This post is simply an update to a previous post on Aviary, a suite of web-based AIR applications. Aviary is making great strides and is now offering free beta invites to be one of the first to test their new applications. I recently received an invite and I have got to sat that Aviary is so much cooler than I originally thought.
Earlier last month Aviary posted 16 awesome tutorials that completely shows off the mighty power of their suite. I’ve listed a few here along with a video displaying the process. If you’re interested in a beta invite, be sure head over to Aviary to get one.
One last thing be sure to check out the rest of the 16 awesome Aviary tutorials and make sure you spread the word. Have fun!
AIR 1.0 was recently released and great AIR applications have been hitting the market prior to that. For those not familiar with AIR, this innovative runtime lets developers use proven web technologies to build rich Internet applications that deploy to the desktop and run across operating systems.
One of most ambitious projects being implemented right now with AIR is Aviary. Aviary is a suite of web-based applications (RIAs) for people who create. From image editing to typography to music to 3D to video, these is a tool for artists of all genres. All of these tools are based right out of the browser or as downloadable AIR applications.
Penguin: Word processing software geared towards creative
Pigeon: Painting simulator
Tern: Terrain generator (minitool)
Horus: Font editor
Woodpecker: Smart image resizer using seam carving (minitool)
Rookery: A free, unlimited distributed file system network that anyone can connect to and store data in. It also powers our file search engine.
Hawk: Digital content marketplace
Crane: Custom image product creator
Eagle: A smart online application that can identify complex data about an image based on the pixel patterns (i.e. which specific camera an image originally came from)
As you can see, this is a very extensible suite and I believe it’ll be great for the industry and the AIR community. I tip my hat to the co-creators of this project, Alessandro Crugnola at www.sephiroth.it and Mario Klingemann at quasimondo.com. Taking on a project like this is huge.
