Ashutosh Sharma

We're pleased to announce the availability of Adobe AIR 2 Beta on Adobe Labs. The Runtime and SDK are available for download on all supported platforms - Windows, Mac and Linux.

AIR 2 includes several highly-requested features. Some of the prominent features of AIR 2 are:

• Server sockets
• Open documents with the user's default application
• Microphone data access
• .rpm and .deb packages for Linux
• Launch native executables
• USB mass storage device detection
• Global Error Handling
• UDP sockets
• TLS/SSL sockets
• DNS lookup
• Packaging an AIR application in a native installer
• Database transaction savepoints
• Screen reader support (Windows only)
• Printing enhancements
• Increased maximum size of NativeWindow
• Multi-touch events (Windows only)

For a detailed list of features and system requirements, please see the AIR 2 release notes.

Together with AIR 2, Flash Player 10.1 is also now available. For more details, please see the complete list of features.

As always, please let us know if you run into any issues.

Posted by Ashutosh Sharma at 7:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Tomas Laurinavičius has posted an amazing list of 22 very useful AIR applications at sixrevisions.com to help people in their design and image editing tasks.

Here's the article: http://sixrevisions.com/tools/22-awesome-adobe-air-applications-for-designers/. Go ahead and check it out (and remember to Digg/Tweet about it if you like it).

Since these are AIR applications, they should work on Win, Mac and Linux. (Do let us know if any of them do not work on a specific platform.)

Posted by Ashutosh Sharma at 9:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Adobe AIR 1.5.2 is now available for download. This is a minor release - for a complete list of API changes and bug fixes, please see the release notes.

This release is focused on making the runtime more robust and secure. As always, please feel free to report a bug/feature request, or to discuss any issues you might be having.

Posted by Ashutosh Sharma at 12:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

We've been working on new features for the next version of AIR (such as 64-bit binaries and .deb/.rpm installers for AIR), as well as on fixing bugs reported by users (reported via the Adobe Wish Form, via blog posts and on Twitter).

To iron out as many issues as possible before coming out with a public release, we'd like to invite users to help test pre-release builds. If you're interested and comfortable working with pre-release software, please send an email to the AIR Linux program manager at rahul - dot - bansal - at - adobe - dot - com with answers to the following questions:

1. Will you be able to submit bug reports on issues that you find back to our development team?
2. How many hours a week can you spend testing on Linux?
3. What is the primary distribution of Linux that you’re using? If you are using more than one distribution, please list.
4. Will you be developing applications on your Linux machine (as opposed to writing on Windows and testing the applications on Linux)?
5. What other operating system are you using, if any (Mac, Windows)? Can you compare the behavior of AIR for Linux with AIR for Windows and AIR for Mac OS?
6. Are you working on an AIR application today? If so, please describe.

Please include your name, email address and your company's name.

Posted by Ashutosh Sharma at 6:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Adobe Reader 9.1 for Linux and Solaris x86 has been released today. Solaris x86 support was one of the most requested feature by users. As per the Reader team's announcement, this release includes the following major features:

    - Support for Tabbed Viewing (preview)
    - Super fast launch, and better performance than previous releases
    - Integration with Acrobat.com
    - IPv6 support
    - Enhanced support for PDF portfolios (preview)

The complete list is available here.

Adobe Reader 9.1 is now available for download and works on OpenSolaris, Solaris 10 and most modern Linux distributions such as Ubuntu 8.04, PCLinuxOS, Mandriva 2009, SLED 10, Mint Linux 6 and Fedora 10.

Posted by Ashutosh Sharma at 7:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)