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Ten Apollo applications you have to download

Mashable.com published the Coolest 10 Apollo applications :

1. Tweetr
2. The Mini Digg
3. DiggTop
4. YourMinis
5. Fresh Reader
6. DryerFox
7. Admetus
8. FineTune Desktop
9. Scout
10. FlexTube

Flex 2 , Actionscript 3 and Apollo articles on Flex User Group

The April issue of FlexGala's newsletter is out with a lot of interesting articles on Flex 2 , Actionscript 3 and Apollo :

• L'oggetto File di Apollo: copiare, muovere file o directory nelle applicazioni Flex 2 per il desktop
• EJB3 e Flex 2: Web, Timer e Message Service - Parte 4
• Servlet, JSP, EJB3, Struts, Hibernate: integrare Flex 2 con il mondo Java
• Leggere directory con Adobe Apollo con il metodo listDirectory() della classe File
• Cross domain Scripting, ovvero come caricare SWF in applicazioni Flex 2 usando il metodo allowDomain()
• Sviluppare Pannelli e Gadget con Adobe Apollo
• Adobe Apollo e Flex 2: Usare il FileSystem per lavorare con i file
• EJB3 e Flex 2: Interfacciare Flex con gli Ejb3 - Parte 3

The first Adobe Apollo guide (in italian)

AUGItaly created a section dedicated to Apollo where it published the first guide of Adobe Apollo :

Apollo Guide : Developing Rich Desktop Application

The guide grows every day, and we add 2 articles per week.

Thanks to all contributors !

Adobe Apollo Cheatsheet ready to download

Thanks to ActionscriptCheatSheet site we can download 3 cheatsheets dedicated to Adobe Apollo :

• Apollo mx.controls & mx.core Cheatsheet
• Apollo flash.display & flash.events Cheatsheet
• Apollo flash.filesystem, flash.html & flash.system Cheatsheet

Professional Adobe Apollo:first book announced

Wrox announced on Amazon its first book on Adobe Apollo :

Professional Apollo
by Charles Freedman (Author), Clint Modien (Author), Ben Lucyk (Author), Ryan Manning (Author)

We have to wait until September but reading the description of the book it seams cool. Can't wait to see the table of content !

(via Amazon) Wrox’s Professional Apollo will be the core guide for building Apollo applications. The authors for this book have been carefully selected to represent each key aspect of existing web development and translate those languages, architectures and frameworks into successful strategies for desktop application development with Apollo.

Each chapter is positioned to build the reader’s knowledge base of Apollo’s core languages and APIs. Professional developers familiar with a specific language have a reference to applying their existing skills to Apollo.

The book builds progressively to more advanced topics. While contextual code is used in most chapters as simple execution examples, the final chapters are dedicated to real world applications that put the skills of the entire book to work.

ApolloApps.com: a membership-based community

A new site dedicate to Adobe Apollo has born with the goal to be a comprehensive membership-based community with real-time updated information about Apollo :

ApolloApps.com is a celebration of Apollo, an innovative software from Adobe that lets you easily build exciting Desktop applications. Whether you develop Apollo applications, or just use them, ApolloApps.com will have something for you.

All you want to know about news features of Adobe CS3 products and Apollo tutorials

AUGItaly blog opens a new section dedicated to Adobe CS3.
We have a lot of experts that post about new features of the CS 3 products and show you all you have to know about Flash CS3, Photoshop CS3, Dreamweaver CS3 ...

Moreover we published a guide to Adobe Apollo in italian you can read on the FlexGala user group.
In the next page you can see all the articles on Apollo we wrote, and more has to come !

Apollo runtime downloaded by 40.000 people

I was reading the Can Adobe Unbox? article published by Forbes where they talked about the Adobe CS3 revenues Adobe expect  this year.
At the end of the article they talked about Adobe Apollo writing that :

since Adobe released a preview version of Apollo last week, 40,000 people have downloaded the software and 30,000 people have downloaded its development tools, the company says.

It's a great result !

Adobe Kuler runs now on the desktop with Adobe Apollo

This post is just to give you a grab of the Adobe Apollo version of Kuler runs on a Mac desktop, showed during the Adobe CS3 Live WebCast.

kuler is the first web-hosted application from Adobe Labs designed both to stand alone and to complement Adobe Creative Suite software. Built using Adobe Flash and ActionScript 3.0, kuler is all about color: color for exploration, inspiration, experimentation and sharing.

The Adobe Apollo eSeminar will start in 5 minutes

Just to remind you that the FlexGala eseminar dedicated to Adobe Apollo will start in 5  minutes:

Adobe Apollo: moving to Rich Desktop Applications
Speaker : Christoph Rooms, Adobe

Apollo is an internal code name for a stand alone application development platform that uses Flash(Flex) and HTML to build interfaces. Unlike Flex Applications, Apollo applications exist as stand alone apps and are not bound to the browser. In this session you will learn the details about Apollo and what exists already today.

Start Time: 03/22/2007 at 6:00 PM (italian local time)
This is the url to connect to the event : http://adobechats.adobe.acrobat.com/apollo/