Pixus for Adobe AIR
Pixus
is a pixel-based ruler for objects on your screen/monitor.
It has skins for Internet Explorer 6 and Safari so that you can visualize how a design or object looks in a web browser.
Pixus allows you to save preset dimensions for later use…
…and its open source.
Check it out…
http://code.google.com/p/pixus/
BlueBear Kodiak
Kodiak from BlueBear is computer virtualization in Adobe AIR !
The first desktop virtualization solution which looks good and offers truly platform independent… goodbye VMWare, VirtualPC, Parallels and crappy VNC/X11/RDC connections to other physical boxes.
It’s not yet available for download, but it’s possible to sign up to get notified when it happens.
Check it out…
http://www.bluebearllc.net
Google Chrome
The employee initiative program at Google is spawning many new ideas; among the most recent is the Google Chrome which is to be released tomorrow
Google are recognizing that web-sites most often are web-applications and that this tendency is more than a mayfly (read “one-day wonder”) and have thought of how it would be to reinvent the browser platform to facilitate the application usage model more than the current which is inherently targeted at the browse usage model…
Google has created an illustrative cartoon that describes it…
http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
…and more about the details here…
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html
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