With the ease of development & multi-platform support, Adobe AIR is a getting-popular choice for creating desktop applications.

There are many beautiful applications built with it including the ones that are functional for the designer & developer community.

Months ago, a post published at WRD was sharing 27 Adobe AIR Applications – Handy For Web Designers. Since then, there are various great applications created.

And here they are, 16 Fresh Adobe AIR Applications For Designers & Developers:

ImageSizer

ImageSizer is a batch image processor tool which can resize, optimize and rename multiple JPG files.

Once the images are processes, they can be exported as a single .zip file.

JustResizeIt!

A batch image resizer that works with drag’n drops. It enables users to define different presets in advance & creates resized images instantly.

The application is great for anyone sending photos with e-mails, requires batch resizing & more.

Xe-IMG Editor

It supports multiple image types, image-from-URLs & SWF files as images to be edited.

With various effects like: zoom, image mask, sharpening, enhancing, embossing & more Xe-IMG Editor is a handy free desktop image editor.

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INSPIRE is an online publication of Adobe Experience Design Team which will attract anyone into software, web & graphic design.

The team shares valuable, real-life experiences both written & via videos.

To give a better idea about the resource, here are some of the recent content published:

• Collecting User Feedback: You’re Doing It Wrong
• Icons In Space

INSPIRE is updated regularly & you can find something new almost everyday.

I am, kinda, well-organised developer and try not to code similar things twice and keep my code snippets within folders to reach them whenever needed.

Today I saw Snippely, a code snippet manager built with Adobe AIR by the Mootools development team (yeah, complicated).

With a very simple interface Snippely organizes your code snippets and can highlight coding syntax for easier reading. Best of all it is open source, which Adobe AIR developers looking for a good Mootools sample may find handy to dive into the code.

Adobe AIR, as it is no longer beta, will be more popular for sure.

I had collected 10 Adobe AIR -Must See- Applications in a previous post which contained really cool applications.

Klok is another great Adobe AIR application which is built for personal time tracking. Projects, sub-projects (tasks) can be defined and can be attached to a customer. You can even make a "start & stop" to calculate the time of the task you worked on and Klok automatically adds it to the timetable.

Klok’s UI works with the drag’n drop logic in general. You can send the items to the trash, manage the timetable and the projects hierarchy easily with dragging and dropping the items.

Klok is a very handy and easy to use application for freelancers & other individuals who want to keep track the time of tasks and projects they are working on.

This free vector icon set is created by Monofactor and includes 25 lovely icons.

Icon set is suitable to be used in content management systems or other web project interfaces as it includes the standard add, edit, delete, e-mail and similar icons.

kuler is a color community website created by Adobe.

There are 1000’s of color sets created by users which you can inspire & use.

With an easy to use interface, kuler users can create their own color sets & share them with the community. Plus, most popular, newest and highest rated color sets have RSS feeds that help users discover new colors everyday.

Kevin Hoy is sharing 40+ Adobe AIR Beta 3 Ajax samples with us.

Samples include:

- Accessing data in the embedded SQLite database
- Updating data in the SQLite database
- Asynchronously reading text from a local file
- Creating basic custom chrome
- Connecting to the SQLite database
- Adding custom window controls to custom chrome
- Encoding a PNG using a Flash library
- Full SQLite database example (create, read, update, delete)
- Selecting a directory
- Encoding a PNG using a JavaScript encoder
- Selecting a file from the local disk
- Dragging files into an AIR application
- Applying Flash filters to HTML content
- Creating a full screen window
- Getting a list of files from the system clipboard
- Testing connectivity to an HTTP endpoint
- Save images of Yahoo! Maps to local disk as PNG
- Custom chrome example using assets from Meebo
- Selecting multiple files from disk
- Creating a new native window
- Drag complex content from AIR to native resource
- Putting files on the system clipboard
- Remembering user login with AIR encrypted local store
- Using Flash Remoting from JavaScript
- Scaling down a selected image
- Determining the dimensions of an image
- Capturing web cam images for a slideshow
- Testing connection to any socket endpoint
- Playing a sound file
- Simple stopwatch application with custom chrome
- Storing data in a SQLite database
- Synchronously reading a text file from disk
- Creating database tables in a SQLite database
- Creating a temporary file
- Dragging text from the system into an AIR application
- Extracting the EXIF thumbnail from a JPEG image
- Uploading a file in the background
- Creating a basic popup window
- Writing text content to a local file
- Reading XML data using XMLHttpRequest (XHR)