Adobe AIR beta 3 & Kuler desktop released!

Adobe AIR Beta 3 version has been released almost an hour ago. The new Beta 3 looks more and more cool and has added some really important features in it and so far is way ahead of the Mozilla’s Prism (our review).

For those who are still wondering that what exactly AIR is, then here’s the small introduction to Adobe AIR :

Adobe AIR lets developers use HTML, AJAX, FLASH, FLEX to deploy the Internet applications to the local desktop. This new version comes with the following updates :

• Applications built on Adobe AIR Beta 3 can register to run at start-up/log-in.
• Web Launcher provides the ability to detect and launch an installed AIR application from a web browser.
• Support for H.264 video and Advanced Audio Coding (AAC).
• Full Screen Hardware acceleration.
• Flash within HTML Support allows Flash content to be integrated within HTML based applications.
• Adobe AIR also supports automatic runtime updates, similar to how Adobe Flash Player can be updated.
• Thawte (http://www.thawte.com/) offers an Adobe AIR developer certificate, so developers can certify applications built on Adobe AIR are from a trusted source.
• Support for the Mac OSX Leopard operating system.

Apart from that Kuler (the awesome color wheel) has been released too as an AIR application. This means that as a web developer you’ll have the best color combinations under couple of clicks!

Downloads :

Download Adobe AIR Beta 3 for Windows
Download Adobe AIR Beta 3 for Macintosh
Download Kuler