Adobe air apps are just simply great it enables any one with knowledge within ajax, Flash, JavaScript and HTML to be able to create a desktop widget, which can be created to be compatible with a range of different operating systems. This article I’ve compiled is 21 great Adobe Air Apps for Designers and Social Media Addicts.

Colors and Patterns

1. Color Browser

This application is a simple way to create and organize your favorite color palettes.

2. Kuler

New! Import kuler themes directly into Creative Suite 3 Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop. Select Save Theme menu to learn more. Color inspiration. Browse and search color themes from kuler (kuler.adobe.com), an online application to create and share color harmonies.

3. Color Lovers

You can use the Desktop Color Finder to search our entire database of nearly 1 million named colors and more than 300,00 user created color palettes.

4. Contrast-A

Contrast-A allows users to interact with a 3-dimensional RGB color space, experiment with color combinations, check the contrast according to both WCAG 2.0 and 1.0 and see the results for different types of color deficiency

5. Color Picker

colorPicker is a widget-like AIR application that lets you either choose a “web-safe” color from a color grid or design a color using sliders to adjust the red, green, and blue values of the color.

6. Random Patter

Easy app that renders patterns based on given parameters. Rendered image can be used as a base of a mosaic.

Design Air Apps

6. Xe-IMG Image Editor V3

Import .jpg .png .gif .swf and URL-extern Photos supported – Zoom Photo, Mask Image supported – Filters Sharpen, Enhance, Embossing supported

7. e2vector illustration application.

e2vector is an illustration application with powerful features such as layers, masks, pen-tool, gradient, undo-redo, SVG import and export, path splicing, shape union and intersection, etc.

8. Splashup Light

Splashup Light is an image editor tailored for those that want to enhance, beautify, or merely play with their photographs. Effects include Levels, Contrast/Brightness, Hue Saturation, Text Editing and Shapes and much more

9. Fractal4D

A really great design adobe air app which is easy to use and enables you create some really cool stuff.

10. JustResizeIt!

JustResizeIt! introduces a brand new way of resizing images – just drag and drop them!

10. Dot3D

Dot3D is an Adobe® AIR™ application that lets you view a 16×16 pixel picture in 3D. You can freely draw, rotate the picture on the canvas, and save it to your desktop as an image file in PNG format

11. Web Kut

WebKut is an AIR application that allows you to capture web pages, or parts of them in a very simple way.

12. Pixus

You can not only measure the screen object size with easy. With browser skins, overlay mode and screen size presets, you can also preview how your design will look in the real environment.

Icon Generators

13. Quick Icon

For developers who want to have nice icons easily but don’t have any designer for such.

14. Icon Generator

Icon Generator is a little application that lets you generate a CS3 or Web 2.0 style icon, only 3 step. Pick color, type characters, and save it. Just create 4 different sizes of the icon.

Social Media apps

15. Twitter Deck

Tweetdeck is a realtime application that allows users to monitor that information in a single concise view. Tweetdeck currently integrates services from Twitter, Twitscoop, 12seconds, Stocktwits and now Facebook.

16. Twhirl

Twhirl is a twitter app which allows you to have multiple accounts open at once.

17. Facedesk

facedesk is an application that, when installed, becomes a stand-alone application to do all your Facebook surfing with. No need to open it up in a web browser, or have it clutter your workspace.

18. Digg RSS Reader

Digg Headline reader using all of the digg.com rss feeds that auto updates headlines every two minutes

19. Spaz

Spaz is a Twitter client for users who value free, open-source software, attractive design, and customizability

20. MyStylez

MyStylez is the MySpace layout creator built on Adobe® AIR™ that contains everything you need for granular control over the design of your MySpace profile. You can edit styles for just about anything that MySpace allows on your profile.

21. KonoLive

KonoLive enables instant collaboration around your activities with peers and colleagues, so that anything you do is synchronized in real-time with all the people involved.

Topsy

Topsy is a new kind of search engine, with a new way of looking at the Internet. Topsy doesn’t think the Internet is a collection of documents. Or even a web of documents. Topsy sees the Internet as a stream of conversations

Streamy

Streamy is all about news. To see recommended stories and activity from friends and topics, start here

Scoopler

Scoopler is a real-time search engine. We aggregate and organize content being shared on the internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day

TweetMeme

TweetMeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. TweetMeme categorises these links into Categories, Subcategories and Channels, making it easy to filter out the noise to find what you’re interested in

Collecta

Collecta launches new Site Search Platform — enables social networks, news publishers, and other sites to easily provide streaming real-time search capabilities to reveal the vibrancy of their communities

OneRiot

OneRiot crawls the links people share on Twitter, Digg and other social sharing services, then indexes the content on those pages in seconds. The end result is a search experience that allows users to find the freshest, most socially-relevant content from across the realtime web

Twazzup

Search twitter. Get real insights

YourVersion

YourVersion continuously discovers new and personally relevant web content based on your interests, and lets you easily bookmark and share your discoveries with friends

Inspired News

Live news from the design community

dailyRT

At its surface, dailyRT is a tweet aggregator that gathers the most popular tweets on twitter and displays them using our own scoring algorithm and numerous filters

This is why we’ve compiled a list containing the Top 10 Free Applications That Help Designers Stay Organized. Takes these applications seriously and use them to systemize and enhance your workflow.

Nozbe

Nozbe trully allows you to get things done, with the use of to-do lists, task and project management features. You can also recieve reminders, share with others, and even access this app from your mobile device.

Open Atrium

Open Atrium is more of an open-source Intranet platform, it’s features are useful for keeping track of research and projects, most notably a to-do list feature integrated with a wiki. The six main features included are – a blog, a wiki, a calendar, a to do list, a shoutbox, and a dashboard to manage it all.

QuickSilver

QuickSilver is usually categorized as an extendable interface that allows you to quickly launch apps, manage contacts, shortcuts, music, images, and several other programs on your Mac. You can also utilize this application with the help of your command line.

Todoist

Todoist is an effective list-maker, that helps you create all types of lists (through a nice interface) that are simple and clean. You can integrate Todoist with Gmail, it is mobile accessible , it has a built-in calendar, and it helps you manage and keep track of your tasks.

MeCanBe

As a designer it’s important to set goals, create and follow through with tasks, evaluate performance, measure your progress, and more! MeCanBe helps you do all that with ease and simplicity.

Voo2do

Voo2do is a simple task management tool that makes it easy for you to manage your time, organize tasks by project, add tasks by email, and track your time as well using a clean interface powered by Ajax.

Toodledo

Toodleo takes you much further than just having you create a list of all the important things you have to get done. This solid to do list manager also enables you with push notifications that will let you know when an item with a due-date is coming up.

Evernote

Evernote is often reffered to as the leader in portable notes because of its ability to record tasks, plans and even images from anywhere in the world. It helps you manage your thoughts and ideas efficiently.

ShareDen

Geared towards designers and developers ShareDen allows you to upload any file of any type (i.e. JS, PSD, HTML, CSS, etc.) with free unlimited space and either share it (with clients, colleagues, and team memebers), host it, or store it into a folder that can help you keep all of your files organized.

hiTask

HiTask is a free web-based task management tool that can help you stay organized. It also provides detailed and easy scheduling, organizing, assigning, and the sharing of tasks with anyone that you may want to inform.