Plurkit on Adobe Air
I’ve been playing around with Aptana and Adobe Air to see if I could create a basic application. What I created was Plurkit; an Adobe Air version of Plurk mobile.
Ok, I’ll be the first to admit, this is not as good as something like Twhirl. 
However, it is my first attempt at anything in Adobe Air so I’m pretty happy.
I didn’t use the Plurk API and do a lot of crazy coding. All I did was take the mobile version of Plurk and embed it into an Adobe Air application. And voila; Plurkit!
I thought some might find this a bit enjoyable and I do have more ideas for it. Actually, some crazy ones are going though my head this moment!
Give it a spin and see how it goes.
Requirements: Adobe Air & a Plurk account. Both Free.
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Sweet! I can’t get it to work for Linux Ubuntu though. Kinda bummed.
I’ll do a post over at Plurkable tomorrow.
- Eric Odom June 22nd, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 - Ubuntu Linux
Great job, AIR rocks.
But it’s just like the mobile page of Plurk…Any other nice features? ActionScript can do a lot
Thanks for your job anyway.
- awflasher June 22nd, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Windows Vista
Thanks for making this app, it’s a start.
http://www.plurk.com/user/waynesutton
- wayne sutton June 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.14 - Windows XP
Great job with Plurkit. I liked your mobile sidebar plugin for Firefox, but this is better IMO because it can run in its own window.
Also, this is what I’ve been asking for to make it easier for me to Plurk, so I guess now I’m obligated to become more active.
- Mike Templeton June 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Windows XP
Eric, if Adobe Air works on Linux Ubuntu, I’d think this would work. However, I don’t know much about Air.
Awflasher, if I had Flash, I could probably do more. I may look into the API and see what I can do too. We’ll see.
- Thomas June 22nd, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Mac OS X
Adobe Air does work for Ubuntu, but not without its problems unfortunately. Twhirl always gives me problems on Ubuntu. Sucks.
Either way, I love that you put this together. Sweet!
- Eric Odom June 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 - Ubuntu Linux
Eric, sounds like we need to suggest Adobe look into that.
- Thomas June 22nd, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Mac OS X
Awesome - thanks!
@ericodom - I’ve been able to get AIR to work on my wife’s Ubuntu Linux machine - and pretty much anything that’s working on AIR will work on that.
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Yep AIR does run on Ubuntu but as other have said it is a bit flaky. However I’ve had problems on Windows to so I’m more inclined to think this is the fault of AIR not the platform.
I have Twhirl running on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy here. I’ve just tried this file and AIR tells me that it is corrupted and can not be installed.
May not be your fault Thomas. I found this issue before when the version of AIR doesn’t match up. Ended up upgrading to the latest copy and the installation file suddenly stopped being corrupt (!). I’ll try that at the weekend as it’s a harder task on Ubuntu. and try and report back.
If anyone else has this working with Ubuntu 8.0.4 can they post a note. It would be great to have a application for Plurk!
- Nick Wilsdon June 26th, 2008 at 5:31 am
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Linux
I added my review for your app on Plurkular.
http://plurkular.com/apps/plurkit/
Thanks for putting this together!
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