10 Adobe AIR Applications To View, Download And Share Photos On Flickr

Flickr stands as the top web-based platform for photo sharing, offering a wealth of beneficial pictures or stock photos for your assignments. Adobe AIR is a technology that allows developers to fabricate sophisticated web applications that run on multiple Operating Systems.

With the powerful features of Adobe AIR and Flickr’s API, there are a lot of great applications that built upon them. Today, we are going to see 10 awesome Adobe AIR applications that will help you in viewing, downloading and sharing photos on Flickr.

1. Flair

Flair stands for Flickr search for AIR. It will search Flickr database for matched photo tags. The return results will be displayed in thumbnail format. Once you click the thumbnail, you can view the large image, together with the uploader’s user information. Clicking the uploader’s avatar will bring you to his/her photostream.

2. Flickroom

Flickroom is an Adobe AIR based application that provides the rich browsing experience Flickr users have long deserved. The dark theme ensures that your photographs look better than ever before.

3. zFlick

zFlick enables users to search anything on ‘Flickr. Saving an image is as easy as dragging and drop the image on the desktop. It has a nice design and the transitions are very smooth.

4. Snoto Photo

Snoto Photo is a desktop application for browsing your recent photos as well as the recent photos of others. You can also do a slideshow of the photos.

5. colrful desktop

colrful desktop allows you to search flickr images based on color or based on another image in the internet. colrful desktop also lets you search for images based on Adobe kuler themes.

6. FotoBooth

With FotoBooth, users can capture pictures with webcam and add cool effects like fisheye, deformer and hexcells to the pictures. Besides that, FotoBooth also allow users to upload photo to Flickr account after capture and editing the photos. FotoBooth also available in Web Edition, which you can run without install.

7. ImageDropr

ImageDropr is a simple AIR application that lets users upload photos to their Flickr account through drag and drop interface. To use ImageDropr, simply drag your photos to the application, add tags to them and hit the upload button to send them to your Flickr account.

8. DestroyFlickr

DestroyFlickr makes upload and download photos easy by using drag and drop feature. The dark application background also enables users to view photos better without the interference of a brighter surrounding. For users who like to download high resolution photos, you can do that straight by dragging the thumbnail to the download menu.

9. Flickr Flipper

Flickr Flipper makes searching photos easier. Simply type the keyword and hit enter. It also allows you to search photos from a specific Flickr user. You can then download the photos to your computer, or press the “play” button to view the photos through slideshow.

10. flump (Flickr dump)

flump is a simple application that allows your to download all of the public photos for a specific Flickr account. Great application fro those who like to collect photos or want to do a backup for their Flickr account.