By Zack Davis, (http://www.photographyconnect.com)
With all the excitement around the Apple App Storefront is it really no surprise that the groundbreaking Adobe Air platform has it’s own storefront? Adobe recently started offering everything from games, RSS readers, calculators, business tools and more, even better a lot of them are FREE!
The concept has worked great for Apple and the iPhone and now Adobe hopes to duplicate the success for the computer market. Though this recent addition to Adobe seems to be born out of a rivalry with Apple it definitely looks like it has the possibility of being a winner for all computer users if it proves successful.
So what does this mean for photography users? Well beyond all the glitzy toys and shiny things to look at in the App store there are already a few familiar and useful tools for photographers available.
Some of the familiar apps include Studio Cloud, TweetDeck and a new app called Photo Uploader for Facebook.
Don’t let the name fool you, it’s far far more than just a simple photo uploader for Facebook. Photo Uploader goes beyond just making it easy for you to read the update stream, you can do everything from monitor “pokes”, messages, events, and even chat all from this desktop application. Facebook addicts and non-addicts alike will like the time savings that can be gained when you don’t actually have to visit the site to do something as simple as comment on a post, upload photos or know when you have a friend request.
This App has been praised by more than one person as being far better than the program offered by Facebook and though it excels and I would agree with that assessment the 1.6MB version 1.0 app does have some flaws (such as trying to log out and log back in under a different user) that are kinks to be worked out still. Even with the few bugs it’s definitely a download I recommend to any photographer that wants to easily upload their photos and monitor their Facebook.
Visit the Adobe Air Marketplace here and download the Photo Uploader for Facebook here.
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