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Bookmash - mashing it up with AIRYesterday

Bookmash is an Adobe AIR application mashup for video, music, photos and social news. It takes a different approach to many of the mashups you see and the more you get into this application the more detail you find. One of Bookmash main points is that it is translated into 13 languages. I’m sure that is the most I have come across in an AIR application to date.

The concept is to search across all of the five media types (or any subset) which then gets results back and displays them on a virtual wall for you to browse. Rolling over one of the wall tiles display a tooltip for that item, selecting it then zooms you into the wall tile displaying the detailed view.

You have the ability to bookmark any of the items you find. Being built in AIR naturally saves your bookmarks locally. Not only is this a link to the data but gives you the opportunity to view that bookmark offline if you need to. You can optionally share a bookmark with the many social sharing sites like Digg, Delicious, Reddit and

SnippageOctober 6

Snippage is a really nice AIR implementation of the ‘web snippets’ concept. Just like you can take a clip of a website with Safari on the Mac and display it on your dashboard, Snippage brings you the same functionality cross browser with Adobe AIR.

The AIR app has two modes – a browser view and a snip view. The idea is that you switch to the browser view, load up the website you want to take a ‘snip’ from then click and drag the snip box around highlighting the area you want to snip.

The snip highlight box has three hot corners available to you, for resizing moving and sniping. Once you happy with your highlight you press the snip icon and the browser view scales down to just show you highlighted area. Mousing over the window pops up a small header bar with four icons. Rolling over an icon shows it’s function underneath.

You can snap out into full browser mode at any point to adjust or remove your snip and create a brand new snip. I would like to have seen a remove button directly on this bar as I was not sure how to remove a snip that I had already created. You do get the option to remove when in full browser view.

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Adobe Kuler - colour themes on AIROctober 5

Adobe Kuler is a website for browsing and submitting colours schemes and palettes, in a similary way to COLOURLovers (read previous review on COLOURLovers AIR app).

This is the second updated Kuler AIR application from Adobe for the latest AIR runtime. You can browse the pallets submitted by various criteria like most popular, highest rated and your personal favorites.

Once logged in using your Adobe ID and password, you get to see your saved colour palettes under the MyKuler drop down selection. The AIR app remembers what your previous search was on the last drop down option.

For each of the colour palettes shown you can copy the swatch values (as a string comma separated without hashes), go to the Kuler website for that palette or save the theme. Now this is where it gets a little weird. Saving the theme comes with a numb

Toro Twitter AIR clientOctober 4

Ah yes another Twitter client, if you have not found your ideal Twitter client then this is another one to try. Toro is a very simple Twitter client that aims for a speedier Twitter by developer Christopher Hayen.

For your download you get an Adobe AIR application with a tabbed interface for recent, public, friends, replies and search. I must admit that it is fairly quick loading in my streams and it’s nice to have the new Twitter search integrated.

Although I do miss not having a tab for direct tweets, and personally now that we have Twitter search I don’t care much for the public timeline.

The setting menu only has two options so far both regarding notifications. They appear on the top right of the

What is interesting is the feedback panel. It shows a current list of requested features and the amount of votes for that feature:

Here’s how it works – With every release, you get two votes to vote on what you think the next feature should be. Submit feature requests using the feedback area and they’ll be reviewed and added to the list.

You can now add shortened links in your Tweet and it counts down your remai

Remember the Milk NotifierOctober 3

Remember the Milk is a web application that has been around for a few years now. It’s a free (with Pro option) to-do and task list manager, much like 37Signal’s BackPack web application. If you are in need of a task manager with a difference then check out RTM.

I was unaware that RTM had an API until now. It looks quite comprehensive and although is still in beta (just like the web app) requires an API key and limits requests to 1 per second, it gives you the opportunity to build your own entrance to the RTM services. The overview page has more information.

So on to the RTM-Notifier Adobe AIR app. This is possibly the first AIR app to be built for RTM. The AIR app is very simple in it’s excecution, checking periodically to inform you of how many tasks you are due. Nothing groundbreaking here but hopefully the developer adds more functionality from the API in future releases.