{"id":744,"date":"2008-07-23T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T08:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/744-the-sun-swings-it-adobe-air-hits-the-big-time.html"},"modified":"2008-07-23T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-23T08:17:14","slug":"the-sun-swings-it-adobe-air-hits-the-big-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/744-the-sun-swings-it-adobe-air-hits-the-big-time.html","title":{"rendered":"The Sun swings it: Adobe AIR hits the big time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/desktopkeeley\/article1377719.ece\">Desktop Keeley<\/a> is a new Adobe AIR application from UK tabloid newspaper The Sun. If you are foolish enough to pass this dialog:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/sun_air4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then you can benefit from:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Gorgeous Keeley is here to ease you through your day, putting a smile on your face and providing up to the minute sport info, showbiz gossip and news updates direct to your desktop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She is too. No dull rectangular Windows; Keeley pops right onto your desktop. The default preferences reveal the target readership:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/sun_air1.jpg\" \/>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Keeley has a variety of animations and \u2013 credit where it\u2019s due \u2013 the application is nicely done. From time to time she pops up and scribbles \u201cGet back to work\u201d on your screen. According to journalism.co.uk it <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.journalism.co.uk\/editors\/2008\/07\/22\/suns-page-3-widget-breaks-download-records\/\">broke Sun\u2019s download records<\/a> in three days.<\/p>\n<p>Now if Microsoft had done Bob like this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Seriously \u2013 what with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/722-adobe-reader-9-brings-air-to-the-world.html\">Adobe Reader 9<\/a> and now this, AIR is everywhere, or will be soon.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/images\/sun_air2.jpg\" \/>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:b1eb6410-8fd9-4964-b756-bcba01296f66\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/adobe+air\" rel=\"tag\">adobe air<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/sun\" rel=\"tag\">sun<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/news+international\" rel=\"tag\">news international<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desktop Keeley is a new Adobe AIR application from UK tabloid newspaper The Sun. If you are foolish enough to pass this dialog: then you can benefit from: Gorgeous Keeley is here to ease you through your day, putting a smile on your face and providing up to the minute sport info, showbiz gossip and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/744-the-sun-swings-it-adobe-air-hits-the-big-time.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Sun swings it: Adobe AIR hits the big time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}