FREE Adobe Air Applications

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Adobe AIR applications can operate offline, and then activate further functionality or upload data when an active Internet connection becomes available. One example is eBay Desktop, which allows sellers to complete a listing offline and then upload it to eBay when they are connected to the Internet. Other companies using AIR include AOL, NASDAQ, The New York Times and Yahoo! Over 470 applications are available on the Adobe AIR marketplace. (from Wikipedia)

Over the past few months I have seen many AIR tools come onto the market that are both free and highly effective. I use a number of these everyday. Maybe, just maybe you may find a few of these useful yourselves.

Image Sizer
ImageSizer allows you to resize, optimise and rename a batch of jpg images producing a zip file containing the images. You can also crop images with its built-in crop tool. This will allow you to resize images to upload to servers if their are file size limits. It also saves on time uploading.

WebKut
WebKut is an AIR application that allows you to capture web pages, or parts of them in a very simple way. It provides you threee capture options that can be the entire page, the current view, or only a selection and save this locally. Great for taking bits and peices of a website and saving for referencing.

MiniTask
MiniTask is a FREE, fast and simple task management application that helps you with organising your daily todos more efficiently. It supports features like drag ‘n’ drop reorder, alarm timers, printing of task sheets, copying tasks from and to other applications and much more. I use this little application everyday.

Splashuplight
Splashup Light is an image editor tailored for those that want to enhance, beautify, or merely play with their photographs. Effects include Levels, Contrast/Brightness, Hue Saturation, Text Editing and Shapes and much more. Perfect if you want to give some dull photos some life.

Klok
Klok is another task reminder tool. You can keep track of anything with Klok’s simple work timer and see visual display of how your days “fill up”. You can see Monthly and Weekly timesheet export with comments.

Other useful free applications

Senduit
Senduit is one of the great file hosting service. This is a free service that allows you to upload up to 100MB files and then send a link to your friends or relative to have them download it.

Solve360
Solve360 is a collaborative workspace application tailored to work out universal team challenges – contacts, projects, plans, activities, tasks, schedules, organize them in no time and track them during the work flow.

Filedropper
FileDropper’s beauty is in its simplicity. It has one click file hosting where you simply click on the upload button and select your file. After the file is uploaded you are taken to the page where the file is hosted. If the file is an image, it shows the image directly on the page for easier sharing. Upload size is an impressive 5 GB.