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ADM file editorNovember 12

This Adobe AIR application is going to be a very useful tool if you develop AIR apps yourself. Called the Application Descriptor Manager ADM for short it is basically a nice GUI that helps write your descriptor file for your AIR application.

ADM is an AIR application descriptor file manager. It’s a tool aimed at AIR application developers who want better control over their applications’ descriptor XML file by providing them a nice GUI to edit the properties and icons of their little child. You can think of it as a design view for your descriptor files.

Those of you who have built an AIR application know that you can set many things in the descriptor file while trying to remember what you can and can’t write. The author David Deraedt, who used to be a translator for O’Reilly in France, has done a great job of designing an app and GUI to make this job just that little bit more painless.

You can save the file after your done and David has thoughtfully given an option to write a backup copy of your original ADM file just in case. Each option has a short help tooltip to guide you and the image icons options are a great time saver. Before saving the file you can get an actual XML file preview so you get that warm fuzzy feeling without the headache!

See the video below (YouTube):

Kronos time trackerNovember 11

Kronos is another time tracker application in Adobe AIR. However this one is small, neat and standalone unlike Compuccino which connects to your Basecamp account. So that makes Kronos useful for many tasks.

Kronos lets you track the time you spend working on your projects. The application also shows you the money you earn, live. Flexible, Kronos can run multiple timers at the same time. You could for example track the work of a whole team if you wanted to.

The concept is simple, you create a set of Projects, set the charge rate per hour then when you start work on that particular project hit start. This starts the clock for that active project. You can have multiple projects running at one time. I’m sure there are people who require such a tool.

Now this is an early beta version and the developer would like you to feedback with any tip

Compuccino Time TrackNovember 5

Compuccino Time Track is an Adobe AIR application for tracking time spent on projects. In their words:

compuccino time track is a time tracking Adobe AIR application that brings together people, projects, tasks and time. The time for each activity can be measured, no matter if you are on- or offline. The ability to run multiple timers caters for a lot of flexibility thus making it possible to switch between tasks easily. The recorded times can be submitted to project management software Basecamp with a single click.

This AIR application is designed to work in harmony with 37Signal’s Basecamp project management tool. When you start the app for the first time it asks you for your login credentials and a list of task areas.

Once logged in you can add a new timer by choosing the client and task from the drop down lists. These are pulled straight from the

YammerNovember 4

Yammer was the winner of this years TechCrunch50. It’s basically like Twitter for work and inter company communications. Launched by former PayPal COO David Sacks it was initially used within Geni.com.

The idea is that you can invite work colleagues to join your network, it uses the host domain name of the email address you started the group with as that group’s name. The limiting factor is that only people who have an email address of the same hostname will be allowed to join in.

The Adobe AIR desktop client for Yammer is one of a host of apps using their API. Others include an iPhone and blackberry apps. I’m starting to see more of this clustering of apps for new startups, it’s great to see Adobe AIR being used towards more of the corporate market.

Yammer makes no secret of the blatant UX and design elements from Twitter, so it’s no surpris

Moderator - Wordpress comment moderator in AIROctober 21

Daniel Dura has released an AIR application called Moderator. It allows you to moderate your Wordpress blog comments direct from your desktop using Adobe AIR.

This is a very early release but the feature list already looks impressive. Dock and system tray icons show the number of unmoderated comments. You can accept, delete or mark as spam the comments directly in the app. If the user has a Gravatar then this get’s shown next to the awaiting comment.

Via the setting button, you get to control the polling interval between 1 and 60 minutes. There is also update functionality built into the AIR app for future updates.

To get this working you will need to be running a Wordpress install of version 2.6+ and have AIR version 1.1. The download is supplied in a ZIP file that contains the required Wordpress plugin and associated AIR badge installers.

So simply install the Wordpress plugin in the usual way, head on over to your set