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Red5 Recorder is an open source Flash video recorder that is built on the free Red5 Flash server.

Using the resource, users of a website can easily record their videos and/or sounds (handy for job search websites, video e-mail apps, etc.).

It can be also set to play the videos with the player functionality.

There are multiple options provided like displaying the level of microphone activity, setting the max duration of a video, frames per second, etc.

P.S. The application requires a dedicated server (Windows or Linux).

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f4Player is a free and open source Flash video player that can play .fly, .f4v or .mp4 files in websites or within AS3 projects.

It is lightweight (8kb) and has a skinnable interface (few skins are included with the download).

The player supports progressive downloads (ability to play the downloaded portion of a file while the download is still in progress) and fullscreen display.

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FlexPaper is an open source document viewer component for displaying PDF files inside websites or Flash applications.

The component does not exactly display PDF files but the PDF-to-SWF converted files in a Acrobat Reader-like interface.

Usage is pretty simple, just inserting the SWF file + customizing the options and there are free tools to convert documents, like SwfTools.

FlexPaper supports zoom in/out, paging, fullscreen, search and printing the documents viewed.

Optionally, it is possible to use the component in Adobe Flex as a SWC source file comes with the download.

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BigBlueButton is an open source video conferencing application which is specifically built for remote learning but can be used for standard meetings as well.

The application enables multiple users to login & share their webcam or communicate via VOIP at the same time.

It is a very ideal application for presentations as users can upload PDF or office documents & keep everyone in sync with their current page, zoom, pan, mouse pointer etc.

Also, users can share their desktop with others easily.

There are 3 user types:

• Presenter: can upload presentations & sharing their desktop
• Viewer: have no authority within the conference, can only view & chat with other users
• Moderator:can upload presentations, share the desktop & change user types of other users.

Users can raise hands to get the attention of the presenter, mute any other participants they want & chat between themselves in public or privately.

BigBlueButton completely relies on open source technologies & it can be improved further with the API provided.

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JuiceKit is an open source software development kit (SDK), which integrates with Adobe Flex, for building "information experience" applications.

The SDK includes components for controls, visualizations & utility classes that are easy to implement & aesthetically pleasing.

To better define the SDK, some of the components it has are a treemap, US Map, "copying data to the computer's clipboard" & much more..

These components can be used independently, within other applications or assembled together to create full applications.

JuiceKit is very well-documented & there are few examples provided to show the things that can be created.

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Adobe AIR applications are great considering the ease-of-use & simplicity they offer.

Almost regulary, WRD is sharing the fresh Adobe AIR applications that web designers & developers will find useful, like:

• 15 New Adobe AIR Applications For Designers & Developers
  
• 16 Fresh Adobe AIR Applications For Designers & Developers
  
• 27 Adobe AIR Applications – Handy For Web Designers
  

Since then, new applications are created & ready to use. And, here they are:

Image Editing, Debugging & Invoicing

zFlick

This is an awesome Flickr search tool that makes browsing between images fun.

Once you find what you're looking for, just drag'n drop that image to your desktop to download it.

PixelWindow

It helps measuring the width/height of any item on the desktop. With a semi-transparent background & custom-presets, it is a great helper when prototyping websites.

Caldera

Caldera resizes, renames & recompiles any number of images in bulk.

You can set it to resize images by scale or spedify a maximum width/height. The renaming function supports automated-names (prefix plus number).

URL Decoder And Encoder

A tiny application with a single purpose: it makes URLs with querystrings more readable, easier to analyze or can create querystrings from a given input.

Debug.a.li.cious Console

An application that transforms ActionScript objects into a human readable format with 5 different debugging levels.

doswf

doswf is an Adobe AIR application for encrypting, confusing & watermarking SWF files.

PreFab

This is a handy application for simplifying common tasks, improving the workflow & enhancing the visual quality of your Flash 3D productions.

It's a small but powerful tool that can add visual quality to low polygon models using a nice bag of tricks thanks to the advanced rendering capabilities of Away3D.

TiltShift Generator

An application for adding camera effects to images quickly.

It is possible to play with blur, color, vignetting settings of images.

uBooks

An invoicing application which is specially built with freelancers in mind.

It is possible to add clients, projects & use the built-in timer to auto-calculate the time worked on projects.

The application also creates invoices & financial reports.

P.S. If the installer fails, try this address.

Time, Task & Project Management

Doit.im

Doit.im helps you organize tasks & focus on items in hand, so that you can closely track the process of your work.

Besides the tasks, it is possible to add projects where sub-tasks can be created.

ToDoDoc

ToDoDoc is a very well-thought project/task & to-do-list manager.

You can use tags for reaching to related actions easier.

PhiToDo

It is a powerful task manager where tasks can be shared with friends & time spent on each task can be displayed.

The application comes with two versions: web & desktop.

Scattrbrain

This is a very simple task-tracking application with a beautiful interface.

Just enter the tasks, select the due date & mark-them complete once done.

FlashTrack Database

A task tracking application which can track the time worked on each task. It can also export reports to MS Excel.

Hourly

Hourly does one thing & does it well. It tracks times you worked on projects & tasks.

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Adobe used to have individual Cookbooks applications for Flex, AIR & Mobile that presented code snippets created by the community.

Now, they have combined all, with new additions, under a single Adobe Cookbooks application.

The website is a great place for finding ready-to-use code samples for Adobe products, specially ActionScript & Flex.

Besides adding new snippets, users can request for the ones that they can not find & other users can create/share them.

The new Adobe Cookbooks also offers a better search/browsing experience with titles like "related recipes" & "contributor lists".

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HydraFramework is a prescriptive development framework for quickly building Flex applications at every level.

The framework’s development methodology can be totally adopted or the core classes can be used in any way you see fit in projects.

It consists several projects:

• HydraFramework Core – an implementation of MVC (otherwise known as HydraMVC)
• HydraPlugins – for quickly adding prebuilt functionality into the core
• HydraComponents – a library of components built on the HydraFramework.

The framework is well documented & presents a demo.

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Adobe AIR has clearly became the standard on creating desktop applications for web developers.

Besides the offline applications, it can combine the richness of web with the simplicity of desktop & offer very functional tools.

At WRD, there were 2 other posts that had shared web designer/developer focused Adobe AIR apps.:

• 27 Adobe AIR Applications – Handy For Web Designers
• 16 Fresh Adobe AIR Applications For Designers & Developers

Since then, various new tools are built & here are 15 new Adobe AIR applications for designers & developers:

colrful

colrful is a beautiful application that enables you to make color-based searches in Flickr. Any number of colors can be mentioned, they can be viewed as thumbnails/originals & downloaded.

Another feature is the ability to mention an image URL & get similar images from Flickr.

Polaris

The application is a desktop interface for Google Analytics (free version works with 1 website).

It offers most of the features of Google Analytics including visits, pageviews, reports, Google Maps report & more..

Big Browser

Big Browser is an application which can display multiple websites in a single window.

It is functional when comparing 2 websites or keeping an eye on multiple pages.

Boks

This is an Adobe AIR UI for Blueprint CSS framework. It handles grid configuration, baseline rhythm CSS (with or without compression, grid.png export, HTML layout and more.

SEO Analyzer

SEO Analyzer checks pageranks, analyzes links & keywords with a very easy-to-use interface.

PrintScreenshot

This Adobe AIR application handles the process after taking a screenshot. You can paste the screenshot, select the areas to crop & choose the image to be saved or e-mailed.

SWF To Animated GIF

This application quickly converts SWFs to animated GIFs by selecting certain points of the animation which is very handy specially when the .FLA sources are not available.

Broadchoice Workspace

This is a payed application with a free version that provides an impressive workspace where users can share notes, tasks, files & communicate with each other.

It can also be reached via mobile phones.

The SQLite Sorcerer

An SQLite admin tool built with Adobe AIR which offers most of the functionality a database manager needs.

Besides standard features like creating dbs, tables, etc, it has nice options like:

• comparing the structure of 2 databases
• changing all attributes of fields is allowed, including default values
• filtering data using keyword or regular expression
• & more..

Run!

Run! is a “query runner” tool for Adobe AIR developers that use AIR’s local SQL database (SQLite) functionality.

When I’m developing an application that uses a database, I find it much easier to get a SQL statement working in isolation rather than trying to write it and test it within the application source code. That is the basic idea of Run!.

SimpleTimer 2

This is an easy to use time tracker application where projects/tasks can be added & reports can be seen in a calendar-view or exported as CSV.

ParseForGo

ParseForGo is a PHP editor that comes with an internal editor. With an internal function-dictionary, double clicking a function displays details of it.

BlazeMonster

It helps developers to generate Flex code to consume BlazeDS Remoting services and also generate configuration file to expose Java classes as Remoting services.

Developers can view response from a Remoting service, generate Flex code to invoke a Remoting service and also generate AS3 VO code for the Java classes.

KwikUML

A tool to quickly build UML models of ActionScript and PHP classes / interfaces, as well as, SQL Entity Relationship Designs (ERDs).

jsBeautifier

A very simple tool for formatting JavaScript code.

(update: 31 August 2009) And, a bonus application which just started offering a free version just after this post is published:

Livebrush

Livebrush is a drawing application which employs an easy-to-use brush tool that reacts to your gesture. By combining simple motion controls with brush styles, it offers a fun and unique way to create graphics.

Books On Adobe AIR & Flex:

• Adobe AIR Bible (Bible (Wiley))
• Adobe AIR 1.5 Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Rich Internet Application Developers – (PDF Version)
• Flex 3 Cookbook: Code-Recipes, Tips, and Tricks for RIA Developers (Adobe Developer Library)
• Professional Adobe Flex 3 (Wrox Programmer to Programmer)

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Hemlock is an open-source Flash framework which offers the richness of Flash & the scalability of XMPP.

It eases the creation of real-time & multi-user applications like games, collaboration and more.

Generally, real-time applications are handled with polling where a database is queried every x seconds to get the latest updates.

With the Hemlock approach, a client registers for a message and is only contacted when a relevant one arrives. This is clearly a better method as it is much real-time & cost-effective (no unnecessary polls).

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