The ImageDropr public beta has begun. To try the beta please install here.
Here are some new screen shots:
The application on load after dropping a few images.
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Last year at Max I met with some of the project team for the Adobe ion+ search project. I was shown a very cool new search engine that Adobe was developing to parse out information from a multitude of sources including community sites, blogs, help docs, etc.
The official goal of the project is to help people find the best answer to their question, no matter where the answer may reside. If the best answer is on someone’s blog in the community, that’s the answer we want to help people find.
This week they have added a public beta of this project at http://community.adobe.com/ion/search.html. It is performing the search as I was shown by hitting a multitude of sources.
For instance search on NativeWindow and you will see a multitude of responses from many sources including this blog show in the results.
They had some additional very cool functionality that has yet to appear in the public beta. Some of this will include the ability to comment on content (like LiveDocs) and have these comments reviewed to ensure that they provide accurate helpful results.
I look forward to seeing the new builds as they are made publicly available.
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I have created a sample AIR application that takes screen shots and saves them to disc. Impossible? Well yes it would be impossible if I were only using AIR. However, thanks to the Merapi Java bridge, we have new functionality exposed to AIR. Yes, it is true that currently there is no shell execute functionality from AIR to start up the Java service. Hopefully, this will change with future versions of AIR.
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If there is a level of motion that exceeds the sensitivity level, it will either take a quick snap shot and display on screen or if “Save pics to disk” is checked it will also save a copy to the user’s picture/iSpy directory. Have fun with it, I hold no responsibility for the pictures you capture. 
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My publisher was nice enough to send me a copy of the Wrox companion book titled Adobe AIR: Create - Modify - Reuse to my book Beginning AIR: Building Applications for the Adobe Integrated Runtime.
I would like to offer my congratulations to the authors Marc Leuchner, Todd Anderson, and Matt Wright for completing this excellent new AIR resource.
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