Adobe AIR improves performance

Although Flash Player has received the most attention on the Adobe Systems developer conference held this week, the company also announced the update for Adobe Air, its runtime environment that allows Flash applications to be run offline on the desktop computer. The first version of AIR and has been used to manipulate a well-known applications such as TweetDeck tool for Twitter, BBC iPlayer Media NewYork Times Reader software. AIR can be useful Flash and Flex developers because it allows them to write applications that run outside the browser on the desktop of every computer on which the AIR installed.