Adobe Flex example sites

At QCon we got a nice booklet of showcase sites for Adobe Air / Flex platform.
I'm still quite a bit confused about exactly where do boundaries lie between Flash, Flex, and Air. But here's a list of links given in the booklet (those that work anyway):


Earthlive - interactive global warming explorer
Nice simple format. Works on Linux / Firefox. The only problem is that the flash window floats over any traditional popup menus, which makes them unusable.
The UI functions are limited to publishing articles with globe overlays. If you select an article, corresponding overlay is shown on the free-spinning globe.





Bay Desktop - can try it out because it only runs on Windows and Mac. Will have to wait then. But it looks promising as an example of a data-rich UI. Any lucky Mac owners out there to help out a poor Linux geek?








Finetune - online music playing site. Seems to play music on demand without time limit. I'm sure there is a catch but it hasn't hit yet. But more to the point - the Flash bit is the player and probably some scripting. Works great under Linux.

From description in the brochure it seems they also have a desktop player, and that's probably where the Air was used.



IntelliSea - Wow, this is really something! This is Startrek meets today's sea ships! This seems to be a client-side piece of software, mainly for local operation, not working over the internet (although it might connect out for weather and such). The main appeal - complex data visualization and interactive dashboard. Unified status display and control for a large number of sensors and equipment. Integrated radar, telemetry, cameras.

Nasdaq Market Replay - provides market activity replay and visualization across three exchanges. Users can also upload their own trade stream.

Most of the work is done on the client side, as the brochure specifies. Uses local data storage for offline processing.



StudioCloud - application for managing photographer's studio. Has online and offline operation. This one is part of Adobe Showcase: StudioCloud Adobe Showcase. Doesn't work on Linux but the installer didn't even detect that. It tried to "install Adobe AIR" and kept getting an "error".

A number of Adobe's own sites got included into the brochure as well:

• Photoshop Express - Picasa competition? Looks cool but doesn't work on Linux.
• kuler - Download color themes (swatches) from the web into Adobe Creative Suite. Wants "latest flash player".
• Acrobat.com - nothing too fancy. Just a flashy push-button UI for doing things on this site (document sharing, pdf conversion, conferencing).
  

That's all for now. I really like the IntelliSea interface. Definitely worth a look!