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10 Coolest Apollo Apps Ever

mashable.com — Everyone is talking about Apollo, the platform from Adobe that puts rich web apps on your desktop. Here are the coolest, slickest and bestest apps so far.

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  • metalgem3, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1For any nerd out there its ***** sick
    • fuegosecret, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3There is no Apollo.
      There is only XUL.
    • themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Bestest is the word I made. Give credit where it is due.
  • webtickle, on 10/12/2007, -17/+4The mini digg is crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • manmademark, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Maybe i'm missing the point entirely but.. why not just open a browser and go to the site?
    • pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5its faster.. you dont have to load your browser... etc...
    • RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Shh! That kind of thinking will kill this product!

      Rather than have the load time of a single browser and view all your pages in it - you can have a dozen or so individual applications that all take time to load. It's great!
    • m3mn0n, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2How about going to the Apollo website and reading a little?

      http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/apollo/

      If you still don't get it after the first few paragraphs, then just STFU, you're obviously not a web developer.
    • fkr3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7The point of Apollo is to take web applications out of the browser.

      Web browsers greatly limit what an application can do. That's why after 5 or 6 years people are still "creating" ways to access your email or read an rss feed.

      With Apollo you can work with the local filesystem and other kickass features that enable you to do assloads more than html/javascript/css ever will.
  • FierceDeityLink, on 10/12/2007, -3/+19Coolest apps EVER? How is that even possible? It was only released a few months ago...
    • chadu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13the "ever" is just a little smaller than we are used to thinking an "ever" should be... It's like a band with 3 albums releasing a greatest hits collection.
    • Scottamus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Everyone is talking about Apollo, the platform from Adobe that puts rich web apps on your desktop. Here are the coolest, slickest and bestest apps so far."

      This sounds like a blatant advertising for Apollo. I've never heard of it. Nobody's talking about it. I couldn't give a *****. Now I'm not saying it ain't the greatest thing since sliced bread but give it a ***** rest.
  • pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Considering there are approximately 10 Apollo apps in existence, I'd say you're really on top of things.
  • RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14I think they misspelled "nobody" in the summary. It doesn't start with "Every" and doesn't and in "one"

    Seriously - who gives a crap about Apollo? If I'm going to make a cool desktop app, I'm not going to start it by chaining myself down by all the restrictions of web stuff.

    What's next - are they going to design an Apollo -> Flash converter so you can view your "desktop apps" on the web?..
    • chadu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6pretty sure Apollo is all about not "chaining myself down by all the restrictions of web stuff." - that's kind of a big part of the purpose of it.
    • someguyinbrown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Apollo is not tied down by any limitations of the web, the new File api is just one feature that lets developers break away from that web mentality of developing.
  • extratired, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6"The novelty is mostly in a a cool 3D animation and the ability to change the font size"

    the highest rated app gets credits for changing of font size and 3D?
  • pyrotix, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Dugg for using the word "bestest"
  • VSack, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10"10 Coolest Apollo Apps Ever"

    First rule of Digg Club: Always use EVER, AMAZING, or !!! when posting a story.

    Buried as Ever != the past three months or compiling a list of the only 10 Apollo applications that aren't "Hello World" in variety.
    • jsearch, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I cringe every time I hear/read the word "rich" to describe anything but chocolate or wealth. Especially anything software/web related.
  • sigmaman2, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1The Azureus Widget,

    used under Yahoo Widgets,

    is the one-and-only, single most useful desktop app on any platform, for anyone, anywhere.
    • eezzzz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Since you also have to run Azureus and Java, you only need what, 3GB of RAM?
  • misterjangles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I know this is no place for serious questions - but has anyone played with Apollo enough to see it as being viable (or not) for professional desktop application development? Does it seem best for widget-type apps only?
    • azazel00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2IMHO, apart from the fact that they can be easily decompiled, it's a pretty solid platform. It's still wearing diapers, but has great potential. Specially if they release some APIs for databases and data persistence.

      I'm still trying to get used to it. Coming from a .NET background.
    • seanalltogether, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've been working for the past 9 months exclusively in Apollo, and I would say that Apollo is great for professional desktop development IF a core focus of your app is connecting to the web. Apollos strengths are split between combining the new Apollo(desktop) core libraries with the traditional Flash(web) core libraries to create a visually engaging web experience that provides offline capabilities.
    • fkr3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Adobe are using it to make a web based version of Photoshop, so I guess it does have the capabilities to produce "real" software.
  • KineticShampoo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1If it's so "talked about" how come I've never heard of it?
  • estacado, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What's the difference between Apollo apps and Flex apps? When do you use Apollo, when do you use Flex? Flex can build Apollo apps, which are cross-platform, but what about non-Apollo Flex apps. Are they cross-platform too? It's all really confusing.
    • someguyinbrown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This is actually very simple:
      Using Flex you build web apps based on the swf/Flash format. Apollo is basically a plug-in for Flex that lets developer's build desktop applications using there existing skills, and of course it adds a few things to the Actionscript api to better integrate with the desktop. Since all this is based on Flash, everything you build is cross platform (web and desktop).
  • Uruviel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I am not impressed.
  • Phipman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2www.apolloapps.com
    some pretty sweet stuff there. Check it out.
  • Protoss, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1Wish they'd hurry up and release a Linux version...But no, apparently we've got to wait until AFTER 1.0 comes out. *sigh*
  • enclave2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Someone make a gmail and g calender app.
    Please.
  • flamebot, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2err...."Everyone" is talking about it?? Sorry, but I forgot about it the day it came out.
  • eezzzz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I was a bit disappointed to see no sexually orientated simulacrums on the list :(
  • Futurejunior, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Will Firefox shrink if I use DryerFox? Some one tell me cause I can't find the tag...
  • pinchduck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I can't believe that "Trip to the Moon" or "Dock with Soyuz" didn't make the list.
  • abxy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1While the options are non-existent at the moment, Admetus, that app that searches flickr for hi-res images, works very well and it returns and downloads results superbly fast. Excellent tool.
  • SamKellett, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm sitting tight for a GMail Apollo app...
  • JackAxe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is the coolest post EVER!!!
  • sixside, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Can we all agree to stop using the word "ever" in technology posts?
  • andykram, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2"Everyone is talking about Apollo" ... really? I was pretty sure that everyone is now talking about Silverlight... *shrugs*
  • thewrenchpilot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Mini Digg doesn't respect the default browser. It opens links in IE no matter what.
  • proxy1080, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What the hell?
    http://digg.com/tech_news/Top_10_Psh_Largest_Database_of_Apollo_Apps_Ever
  • jrieth50, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If Adobe is going to take a role as industry leader for web applications they need to start realizing the web isn't as homogenous as they'd like to make it. That means fully cross-platform, fully 64-bit, etc.

  • anamanaman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I tried them all. All of them are pretty bad on XP (interface not very responsive). At this point a poor substitute for a .NET or WPF application. Actually, it seems to perform more poorly than recent releases of Java Swing.

    Its fairly early for Apollo though so I wont write them off just yet.
  • stockjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What is Apollo? Is is based on Flex/Flash tech?
  • danandjan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ummm, didn't Java Web Start/JNLP (web applications becoming like desktop apps, ability to write to local hard drive, etc) do this like 4 or 5 years ago? I don't get all the hype or excitement. Maybe it is easier with Apollo? Sorry, if I missed all the fun...
  • zmigliozzi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Where does actual productive usability come into play?
  • stinkfart, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Everyone is talking about Apollo, the platform from Adobe that puts rich web apps on your desktop."

    Ummm no they are not.

    This is astroturfing, folks.
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